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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: 47. To ask the Minister for Health her response to the ESRI’s health service capacity review on future capacity requirements for public acute hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34615/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to reduce waiting times for primary care waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34616/25]

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. I propose to return this correspondence and ask for a breakdown of when they were considered and when they went to tender, planning and construction. Some will not be at that stage yet. For those that are under way, we want to know how long it has taken. If we are looking at delivery of the next national development plan, we need to know. The best way to know what the system...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: We looked at the structure of the report so far. There will be a formal introduction. The report will be a summary of the key points from the groups we have met so far and is to show, at the end of this Dáil year, the work the committee has done. We will have done a summary and we will have clear observations on it but there will not be final conclusions because it is too early to...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: Exactly that. The report will contain a summary of the groups we have met: the Department of public expenditure, Uisce Éireann, transport infrastructure projects - we had transport groups in - and IBEC. They will be contained in the report. We will not have firm conclusions but will have key what I would call observations - what the committee has observed so far.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: There will not be definite conclusions. It would be premature to draw conclusions after a few meetings. We will have clear expressions of our views, such as the letter we are sending back to the Department of public expenditure on the information it provided, but there will not be formal conclusions because it is a first report.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: Yes, it will be an interim report. It will not be a final report.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: No, I expect there will be interest in the report because we had bodies such as Uisce Éireann, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority in, so a lot of the report will be about what they are saying and they will have highlighted some of the difficulties. This is what the committee wants to make observations on.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: We chased this up this morning and I have been told it is on the way.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: Exactly.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: We have received apologies from Deputy Cronin. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. Private meetings are a different matter. I also remind them of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: They are the type of issues that will be contained in the report. I think it would be remiss of the committee to disappear. As I said at the beginning, when this new committee was set up, "delivery" was the most important word in our title. It is not just about talk, it is about delivery, and we need to show a bit of urgency by having an interim report.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: It is five weeks since we had our first meeting and we asked the then Department of public expenditure, national development plan delivery and reform for a series of information items and we have really only received the first batch of them after a month. I say publicly on the committee's behalf that all of the organisations' responses to requests for information are a disgrace.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: How can a national development plan and key projects be delivered if they cannot even respond to an Oireachtas committee request for straightforward information? We said the last day, and I will put it on the record, that we would give every organisation a fortnight to respond because sometimes the list of questions submitted is even longer than what was asked at the meeting. I said a...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Fleming: Can we stick with the deadline of a fortnight? Those representatives could be going off for two busy days off site or something. A fortnight is reasonable. If there is an element they cannot answer, I ask them to send a note to the committee. It will take an extra five days or something like that. I have been around other committees in the past. I put on the record again that the...