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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: That is before I was born.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Okay. I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: It was not because Deputy Nash was not here.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: When we are discussing these things, it is important to look at the real-life daily impact it has on our communities. Just across from the estate I live in a build-to-rent apartment block is going up. We had street meetings organised by residents to discuss the proposals for what is going to be put in place. I must tell the Minister people in my estate were devastated when they heard it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Will we then continue until 10 p.m.?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the issues the Open Government Partnership will be addressing with him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56104/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Regarding the Open Government Partnership, OGP, I ask the Minister to advise us concerning the issues it will be addressing with him and if he can give us some more detail in that regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I welcome the Minister’s response. Many people would agree that there have been major concerns regarding transparency and accountability. I do not need to rehash those concerns because I think we have debated regularly in this Chamber. It is welcome that there will be an open government round table multi-stakeholder forum and that the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I will also be introducing legislation on protected disclosures. It will be intended to strengthen the legislation in this area, because it does need to be strengthened. Turning to freedom of information provisions, I have been clear that the current regime needs to be strengthened and that is why I have brought forward legislation and submitted amendments in that regard. The same goes for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 62. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress to date of the interim procurement reform board under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56103/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: What is the progress to date of the interim procurement reform board under the remit of the Minister of State's Department?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: The national children's hospital was initially estimated to cost €650 million but the latest estimate stands at €2.4 billion, an increase of approximately 270%. The national broadband plan, initially estimated to cost €350 million, is now estimated to cost €5.7 billion, an increase of 1,530%. Behind schedule and over cost are hallmarks of procurement failure and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: It will please the Minister of State to learn I have a Bill forthcoming that relates to public procurement. One of its aims is to improve the approach to procurement data collection. Another Bill I have introduced, the Regulation of Tenderers Bill, which has passed First Stage, attempts to address the issue of bid rigging, something that everyone now understands is a problem. We often hear...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the multi-annual expenditure ceilings and the carryover impact of current expenditure measures announced in Budget 2022 for 2023 will be provided in the same format as provided in table 7, page 47 of Budget 2020. [56180/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of children who are born here to non-Irish parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55948/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (16 Nov 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to reopening a full-time Covid-19 test centre in Galway city given the inability for those without a car to access the testing centre in Galway airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55996/21]