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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú want to give people confidence in the delivery of public infrastructure. This confidence has been radically eroded by the lack of Government prudence and the lack of Government ability to hold the system to account. A Minister tasked a civil servant with creating a tender for the national children's hospital. There are people who are responsible for the spending disaster that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: A person would lose their job-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: If it was a private company there would be loss of jobs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Deflect.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Ones that would have worked.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: But not accountability.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The State does things. The Government is not doing it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding allocated for flood relief schemes; and the amount actually drawn down or spent in each of the past five years and to date in 2024. [17649/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: This again relates to flood defences. It is a very serious issue. I was down with Mona Stromsoe, who is the chair of the Midleton flood defence campaign, last Friday. I got to visit the location where floods did enormous damage. The water literally pulled cars out of driveways, knocked walls and did enormous damage. That town is still living with a significant fear of those floods...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot overstate the damage that has been done in Midleton and how this is a threat to human lives. I saw the buildings children were being lifted out of and the flow was so strong people could not stand in those situations, so this is very serious. The Minister mentioned earlier there are things outside of the Government's control and mentioned planning and the courts system. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Twice.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if levels of public expenditure here are adequately proofed to ensure best outcome for the Exchequer and taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17650/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The country is cursed with a number of scandals in relation to overspends on public projects. Aontú is fully in support of public project. We believe in public delivery, but the biggest threat to the confidence in public delivery has been a Government that has allowed such glacial movement in terms of infrastructural projects but also massive costs in terms of the delivery. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a list of projects that have gone over budget but I will use them in the second part.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a list of projects that I will tell the Minister about in my own time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned accountability. I am not aware of anybody in the senior levels of the Civil Service who has ever lost his or her job because a project went over budget. I am not aware of anybody who has even been moved sideways. I will give a couple of examples. We had a farce here where €2 million was spent on a Dáil printer nobody could fit in the door. We have the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have left the force in each year since 2020. [17652/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times she has met with the Garda Commissioner since she took office. [17651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite an application for foreign birth registration from a parent who is an Irish citizen (details supplied); and provide a reason as to the delay in processing the registration. [17698/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Court of Human Rights (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will include the murder of a person (details supplied) in the current case being taken against the British government in the European Court of Human Rights. [17994/24]