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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: Did the Secretary General read the options? Did he have access to the paper with the same options as the Minister?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: The Minister mentioned costed alternatives. Can the costed alternatives be published? I wish to reinforce the following point. Obviously we want Ministers with independent minds who seek advice from all quarters. However, I refer to the points that were issued by the Secretary General, particularly the ones on reputational damage, the risks to the perception of economic competence and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: I assume that the Secretary General has had access to the same options that were available to the Minister, yet still arrived at this advice to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Can the Minister explain the difference in the two outcomes and responses to the two options papers?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: It should have been published.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: That is what the Secretary General formed a view on.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: I will give Deputy Cowen 30 seconds of my time, if I can.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: It is the budgetary oversight competency that is of interest. Essentially, Mr. Robert Watt had a Sir Humphrey Appleby moment with his Minister. When the Minister for Finance told the Taoiseach of his decision and mentioned that the Secretary General had raised some issues, I assume the Taoiseach asked him to summarise what the issues were. They were affordability, the risks to the State...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: -----emerging technologies and future developments could render this investment obsolete, leading to an unprecedented risk for the State. Budgetary oversight is our responsibility. What led the Minister to overrule the overwhelming weight of advice of officials who I presume are at his side today?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Definitions (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to acknowledge that ME can lead to disability from mild to profound; if the HSE will add ME to its list of disabilities (details supplied); his views on whether access to assessment for home support and personal assistance should be through disability services not older person’s services; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Definitions (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 457. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will implement the international consensus criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis in order that persons with ME can get a clear diagnosis as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22025/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 455. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used here to diagnose the neurological disease myalgic encephalomyelitis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22023/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 456. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop guidelines for myalgic encephalomyelitis relevant to Ireland; if contemporary research will be referenced in relation to same rather than relying on same from the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22024/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to develop a clear pathway of care for persons with ME with prompt access to specialists and treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22026/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 459. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the lack of specialist consultants for myalgic encephalomyelitis; his views on whether ME is a multisystem disease involving many areas with many debilitating symptoms which require patients to see many consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22027/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will designate myalgic encephalomyelitis as a reportable health condition in order to obtain robust official collection of data on the number of children, young persons and adults with the condition and the degrees of severity of the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22028/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to update its diagnostic and treatment procedures for persons with myalgic encephalomyelitis to reflect best international practice; if he will address the lack of specialist support within the health service for those suffering with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22029/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Planning Issues (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason stakeholders require planning permission to repair habitat that has been damaged by OPW arterial drainage, that is, damaged without planning permission further to flood relief; and the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland is not using its own exemptions for planning permission to carry out instream repair and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the point at which instream fishery work became a matter for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wastewater Treatment (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland is doing nothing to prevent raw sewage continually running into the waterways that it is responsible for protecting during high water events (details supplied). [21827/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities Provision (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units allocated to persons with disabilities in 2017 and 2018; and the detail of the allocation in terms of the number of persons with disabilities here proportionally. [21658/19]