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Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Did the Department do a performance review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Does the Department report on that to the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Does that include the performance part of it, as in whether the Department met what it said it was going to do at the start of the year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Is there any standard across public service Departments in terms of what they will do for the next 12 months, and then a look back to see whether they have achieved and delivered that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Why would some not do so?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Is that not a standard the Department should set for other Departments, as in telling them? We have seen circulars here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: In any business what you would do is set out your plan for the year, look back and see how well you did and what the challenges were, and the room to improve. It could be something the Department might look at with regard to public service reform.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: We need to make sure that we are delivering as best we can, getting value for money and achieving what we set out to achieve.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (9 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 253. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give due consideration to providing epinephrine injections (EpiPens) free of charge to the families of children (not in receipt of medical cards) who are required to carry EpiPens on their person in case they experience severe anaphylaxis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38257/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the uptake of the supports to help to achieve a better gender balance in apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37513/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: I apologies for not being able to attend the meeting earlier. I really appreciate the witnesses coming in and all their very detailed submissions. As a lawyer who has worked in this space I have a real issue with the patchwork of legislation we have, from the Employment Equality Acts and the various amendments to them, to the Equal Status Act, the Maternity Protection Act and the overlay...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: That would be helpful for seeing what has been done elsewhere and the impact of that as well. I am a director of a charity called Teen-Turn which empowers girls from underserved areas into STEM careers. In so many of our girls' schools there still is not access to full science subjects and it is generally girls from underserved areas who are disproportionately impacted. We are relying on...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Do the witnesses see WRC resourcing as a challenge currently?

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: As a user of the service does Ms Bailey see it as a challenge?

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: I want to ask about the recommendation to include grounds of gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics. Again, has anywhere else in Europe done that?

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: It would be really helpful to share it with the committee. Do the witnesses have any sense of the amount of claims that may have been taken under that legislation in other countries?

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Yes. It would be really helpful for the committee in assessing what it may want to recommend to the Minister. It would be very helpful if we got to see the various grounds on which things have happened in Europe and examples of the types of cases that came through, and perhaps awards. It will obviously depend on what their legislative inclusions were in relation to awards, but it might...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: Okay. Was the patchwork of legislation something the witnesses all raised in their submissions on the Equality Acts? I mean the fact it is so difficult to navigate it makes it essentially unusable for the layperson who wishes to access it.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the target of 10,000 annual apprenticeship registrations by the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37512/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the display signs on platforms at Connolly Station are frequently not working; when these signs which are vital tools for communication, will be reliably operational; the steps being taken to improve real-time passenger information for rail users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37800/25]