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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: The Minister said he will make a statement. Will there be a questions and answers session? There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Will it be a questions and answers session?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Absolutely not. These are questions that need to be answered. I am asking the Minister whether he will facilitate a questions and answers session or if it will be a statement again.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Sometimes we need to learn from our mistakes in a lot of different ways. The Minister will have learned from this week that a questions and answers session in the Dáil is what is needed. I would have thought this, as the Minister's first time taking questions in the Dáil as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, would be the perfect opportunity for that. I will read out some...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I have 35 seconds left, a Chathaoirligh.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I have 35 seconds. Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Did Michael Stone pay people to put up posters for the Minister in the 2020 general election?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I do not think that at the start-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: The Minister failed to respond yesterday. There are questions that need to be asked.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: My time is up. It is the Minister's turn.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: My time is up.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I have been clear regarding what I believe needs to be discussed today because we did not get answers to the questions yesterday. A Chathaoirligh, the-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Construction Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I am not asking you to change the Order Paper. I am asking the Minister to answer the questions he should have answered yesterday. He really needs to do a questions and answers session next week and not just give further statements.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for reforming public procurement legislation to allow the procurement system to be used in a more strategic way. [63831/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: There is no way that we can have business as usual here today in relation to our questions when we look at what has happened over the last number of days and the scandal the Minister has been embroiled in. The Minister has failed to clarify matters in relation to this scandal. There are a number of outstanding questions that I want to put to him today because he failed to answer questions...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: What action did the Minister take and at what value did he calculate that work?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I said from the outset that there is no way we can go back to business as usual when the Minister is refusing to answer questions. The Minister now has an opportunity to answer those questions. Indeed, he has an hour and a half in which to answer questions. He should use that time to answer.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I am asking questions of the Minister and I ask that he answer them.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: Everything has changed. We need answers to these questions-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2023)

Mairéad Farrell: I have asked a number of questions but I have not received a response. This is the perfect opportunity. It is the Minister's first set of ministerial questions as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and his first parliamentary questions this year. This is the perfect opportunity. The Minister knows the answers to these questions. He can give us the answers to these questions. I...