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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (1 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 360. To ask the Minister for Health when a new MRI scanner will be provided for University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39514/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (1 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 361. To ask the Minister for Health when a new contract between the HSE and a union (details supplied) will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39529/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications Data (1 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the applications that were made for all forms of funding under the Sports Capital Programme for the 2018-2019 funding round for County Tipperary in tabular form. [39412/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Records (1 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 497. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all internal correspondence between persons (details supplied) will be published. [39456/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Records (1 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 498. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the correspondence between the Secretary General of his Department and the Secretary General of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to 22 September 2019. [39459/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (1 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the correspondence between his Department and Tipperary County Council between 1 May 2016 and 22 September 2019. [39460/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I agree with colleagues. We need greater transparency but I am not sure what the best process would be. We have to be sure that some of the breakdown of costs is not hidden behind construction inflation. We should write to the board of the national paediatric hospital about the three layers that have now been flattened. We should ask for an update on the status of the project because it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I may ask the committee to help in getting one or two bits of information from the board to assist in bringing about greater transparency. I will liaise with the Chairman on this point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I studied it. The figures were not a surprise to me, particularly as I had them near enough to what is outlined. It just goes to show that the hospital with the greatest issues, the highest level of overcrowding and the least flexibility as regards consultants going across the network group of hospitals is the one with the largest amount of private consultancy use. That all ties into why...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: To fill in the jigsaw, when we discussed that issue regarding Scally and the questions which came up as a result of information provided to the health committee last week, we found out through the Irish National Accreditation Board, the accreditation body for the labs, that from its accreditation of the famous Manchester lab, it looks like that was the missing piece of the jigsaw which would...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I would say it was the reason.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I cannot say that definitively.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: We still do not have full transparency on section 38 stuff. It is a time bomb It is a topic to which the committee should return. I know we spoke about potential special reports. This area is completely underfunded. There are loans being given out to these organisations but they do not call them loans.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: They would not function otherwise. They would close down and we would have a collapse of service across health care. It cannot go on. The trading scenarios here are unusual in some cases. It cannot continue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: The point raised by Deputy Murphy has highlighted an issue for me. In this correspondence reference is made to certain barristers’ legal fees. In regard to the Apple case, for some time now, through parliamentary questions and other formats, I have been trying to get the fees paid to certain barristers and information on whether they have any other public sector jobs and,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: Can the committee write to them and ask for a consistent approach and transparency with regard to the information I have requested?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not sure that it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: Can we also ask the Department of Finance to provide us with the information?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: I will forward the relevant parliamentary question to the Clerk.