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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The answers are lengthy compared with the questions I have asked.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a certain amount of time.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: On the planning issues, one thing we do hear regularly from local authorities is that there is a serious resource issue in local authority planning departments. Many of these planning applications go through those departments. The Minister mentioned that I had picked out particular issues. These are major infrastructural projects that have a very significant effect on people's lives.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Anybody travelling through Dublin will tell you that the transportation system in Dublin is grinding to a halt. In eight years, Madrid was able to build 130 km of underground and yet we have been talking about an underground for 20 years and have not been able to-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister just-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: On another issue, we had the Secretary General of the Minister's Department here last week and, with regard to the waste and bureaucracy that arises in the HSE, I asked whether any comparative analysis had been done with our European counterparts as regards productivity. The Minister mentioned other European countries' delivery of projects and need to fulfil regulations. Has the Minister's...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Workforce planning is a means to ensure that we have the required essential skills. Ireland lost a significant number of people from the construction industry to countries like Australia and Canada during the last crash. We could do with some of these people back now. A campaign to try to bring some of those people home would benefit capital projects in a significant way. On the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: For businesses but not for homeowners.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I submitted a parliamentary question last July on the number of vacant properties the State has. Earlier I mentioned that there are 3,500 vacant local authority homes which would actually accommodate everybody who was in emergency accommodation at the moment. I mentioned how long it is taking to flip those houses around compared to the private sector. The Minister of State would have to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a startling fact. How will the Government inject a level of urgency into bringing those properties back into use so we can create homes?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Diagnoses (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of children under the age of 12 years who have been referred for a public psychological assessment for autism. [51308/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: We have a situation where the democratic rights of the people of the North of Ireland have been deleted by the DUP. The boycott of the institutions is doing tremendous damage to citizens right across the political spectrum. The economy, healthcare, housing and even the environment are under significant stress in the North for the lack of a properly functioning Executive. A rump of DUP MPs...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what preparation his Department has undertaken for a united Ireland or a united Ireland referendum. [50585/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will examine the plight of two children trapped in Gaza. (details supplied). [51103/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he or his Department learnt first of the potential release date of Irish citizens from Gaza; and who informed he and his Department. [51165/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will open a second driving test centre in County Meath given the number of applicants and lengthy waiting times for a test. [50909/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau in each of the past 15 years and to date in 2023. [50575/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the monetary value of assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau in each of the past 15 years, and to date in 2023. [50576/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount in monetary value returned to the Exchequer by the Criminal Assets Bureau in each of the past 15 years and to date in 2023. [50577/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Functions (21 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) has ever been considered by her Department for repatriation due to their previous criminal convictions in another EU Member State. [50702/23]