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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: Did he read it on Sunday morning?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: So when was the expenditure of €170 million, the source of which has not been identified, officially decided at Cabinet?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: In terms of the specific decision by Cabinet. As the Committee on Budgetary Oversight we are pursuing the allocation of €170 million, source unidentified. When was the specific decision taken at Cabinet to spend that money?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: Did the Minister specifically identify the underspend as being ring-fenced for refunding water charges at any time in Cabinet discussions?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: As Deputy Doherty said, there is an underspend in the Department of Children and Youth Affairs of €39 million. That will more than likely be sucked up in the next few weeks as the various initiatives roll out. There is an underspend of €21 million in health yet the HSE said at the weekend that it needed €320 million extra for elder care services such as home care...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: Can I interject there?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister has had his time with Deputy Doherty on this issue.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: We are not arguing with that. As the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, we have oversight over the process. The Taoiseach announced in the Sunday Independent- and I deliberately make the difference between the Taoiseach and the Government - the expenditure of €170 million. The Minister cannot tell us today where that money is coming from. I wanted to know when a Cabinet decision was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: We are not going to agree on this process, which is what is key to me. In respect of capital expenditure, the Minister announced a review of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. Will he provide the committee with a timeline for that review? When does the Minister see those funds being available to assist us in our capital challenge? We have had an engagement with the European...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: That is the understatement of the year.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: I agree with Deputy Pearse Doherty. This is not a departmental committee We are not attached to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Department of Finance. This committee is supposed to have oversight of all Departments. Like Deputy Doherty, I believe this is crazy. The fact that the Minister scheduled a press conference knowing that he would be at this meeting is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: Has a date been decided yet for the presentation of the budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: In our ding-dong earlier I referenced the HSE. There were reports last weekend that it has identified a need for another €320 million for spending on older people and home care and home help packages. Has the Department received any correspondence from the Department of Health or the HSE on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: With the €20 million under profile for this year, the Minister is saying its expenditure is on profile. However, on elder care alone, and this comes back to demographics, the HSE is identifying another €320 million for next year already. Is there a possibility that the health budget will go way off profile this year?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: Again, we will agree to disagree. We would prefer it if the Minister outlined his expenditure plans at the committee so that they would be subject to scrutiny rather than us or his ministerial colleagues reading about them in the Sunday Independent. One of those Ministers who read about it was Deputy Regina Doherty of the Department of Social Protection. Previous Governments allocated the...

Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: I learned from the Minister of State.

Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: I wish the Minister well in his new joint custody arrangements involving the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform might get the Minister at weekends - I am unsure. I wish the new ministerial team well. I was listening to their remarks and to the speeches. The intent was good but the reality is so...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (13 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent to date in 2017 on projects (details supplied); the estimated cost per year from July 2017 until completion for each; the amount provided under the capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34861/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (13 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a domiciliary care application by a person (details supplied). [33635/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)

Dara Calleary: If I might, first, welcome Deputy Madigan to the committee.