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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I will keep my question extremely brief because of the time pressure. The State previously declared a climate emergency and we know there is a huge job of work to be done in relation to that. It is clear that semi-State companies will be key to investing in a just, green transition. Would the Ministers support amending the state aid rules for semi-State companies when it comes to investing...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus leis na hAirí as teacht os comhair an chruinnithe seo. We know that the Government is planning to ratify CETA. As the Ministers are aware, it provides for the investor court system, which is a legal mechanism that will allow large corporations to sue the State for massive sums of money. This has the potential to have a significant...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I am absolutely astonished, given our 20-year liability, that a risk assessment has not been done. Perhaps it is something that should be considered. The Minister mentioned performance budgeting in his opening statement and referred to the need to manage public sector pay. The Public Service Stability Agreement, PSSA, rules on lateral movements within the public service stipulate that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: So it will go against that aspect of the PSSA.

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Mar is eol don Aire, tá muidne i Sinn Féin tar éis tacú le fanacht agus dul chun cinn an EWSS go dtí an 31 Márta. Tuigimid cé chomh tábhachtach is atá an scéim seo i gcomhair na ndaoine atá ag brath ar an airgead seo. Ar ndóigh, an rud atá mé féin chun caint faoi ná na daoine sin atá ag iarraidh...

Finance Act 2004 (section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: This is a technical motion and it relates to capital carry-over from one year to the next. Sinn Féin will be supporting it. This year it represents money included in the 2020 voted allocation that has been unspent. Since the 2004 Act we have a facility to carry over unspent capital expenditure. Section 91 of the Act specified that the provisions would be up to a maximum of 10% of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Two weeks ago, along with 3,500 bereaved relatives of the conflict, I wrote a joint letter to the Taoiseach and to Boris Johnson. The British Government has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability. We need a truth recovery process, a proper archiving of lived experiences and an examination of themes and patterns. I ask the Taoiseach to meet with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I am asking the Taoiseach as a bereaved relative.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: These are relatives.

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I commend my colleague, Deputy Kerrane, on bringing this motion to the floor of the Dáil. It is a reasonable motion with practical solutions that would dramatically improve the lives of many. Fuel poverty means that people literally do not have the ability to afford to heat their homes for them and their families. Families choose between putting food on the table, heating their homes...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the length of service requirements for a civil servant to avail of the preserved pension benefits for an officer who served between 1 June 1973 and 1 June 2002. [5181/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies with unlimited status from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies registered in jurisdictions that are listed on the EU's blacklist from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5417/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies using anonymous trustee ownership structures from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5418/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies that use a bearer share ownership structure from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5419/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether companies in receipt of public procurement contracts should adhere to the EU Code of Conduct for Business Taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5421/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether aggressive tax planning by a company should be grounds for exclusion from a public procurement process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5422/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of unlimited companies that were awarded public procurement contracts in each of the years 2016 to 2020. [5420/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: In the correspondence we have received as a committee, we do not see any explanation as to where the astronomical increase of €81,000 comes from. Where was this figure plucked from? Where are the calculations to show why an increase of €81,000 was chosen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: There is one reality for some and then there is a totally different reality for others. I did look at the minutes of the meeting but it did not give exact calculations on how the €81,000 was agreed on. It just seems that €292,000 was seen as a nice, round number. The Minister mentioned in his opening statement that he feels the figure of €292,000 is commensurate with...