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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

John McGuinness: Oh.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (20 Sep 2023)

John McGuinness: 902. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding is provided for the expansion of the Ballyhale Health Centre, County Kilkenny, as a matter of urgency, given the demand on the practice for services and the increase in population in the catchment area of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to provide a primary care facility for Ballyhale, County Kilkenny; if the land which is available for the project will be purchased by the HSE; if not, if the GPs concerned will be funded to complete the purchase; and If he will outline the plans in this regard. [34960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (13 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: 677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the actions he is taking to ensure that the community space allocated through the planning process at Lakeside primary care facility will include representative groups from the immediate locality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: 201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the funding of €50,000.00 approx. allocated by Horse Sport Ireland for the purchase of sand for the Greenogue facility was spent in accordance with all procurement requirements and represented value for money. [34607/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: Apologies have been received from Deputy Jim O'Callaghan and Senator Higgins. Today, we are meeting with officials from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform regarding changes to the public spending code. I remind members that this is our first session. Afterwards, we will meet with officials from the Central Bank. I welcome Mr. John Conlon,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: Mr. Conlon's Department is now known as the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. It is quite a lengthy title and there is a lot in there. He has set out what he is expecting to be done immediately in each Department relevant to these projects. What happens when it is not done? What happens when a Department consistently overruns on its budget?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: I can provide an example. The Department of Health is the most obvious one. Horse Sport Ireland is being examined by a committee in this House today in terms of how it spends its money as an agency of a Department being operated by the State. You can go down through the rest of the Departments. All you have to do is to look at the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General every year....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: The Department has what? Sorry, I did not hear what Mr. Conlon said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: Where they fail, what does the Department do? There are obviously failures in each Department. Some can be explained, whereas others cannot, and we just do not know what is happening in the Department. What mechanism is there within the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to apply the Circular 06/2023 and any other reforms that it might have in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: The Department is the Department responsible for public expenditure and reform, and now it has the added responsibility of national development plan delivery. If a Department fails in the delivery of the national development plan, the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform fails. If a Department fails in terms of public expenditure, the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: That amounts to closing the gate when the horses are gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: Did the Department consult with the Comptroller and Auditor General about those reforms?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: I can understand that, but he, his office and the people who work there are at the coalface every day. Surely they might have some suggestions regarding how one might structure a particular Government contract or, generally, a Government contract, or not, and how would one achieve value for money. That is his job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: I am not saying they are advisers. Let me be clear about this. I am not saying they are advisers and I am not having a go at Mr. Conlon or his two colleagues here. I am simply trying to find things out. The Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff do the counting in each Department. They look at governance issues. They look at failures. They look at successes as well. I am not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: It disgusts me to see, year in, year out, billions of euro just sifting away. There is a big row about it on day one, a big row about it when the Comptroller and Auditor General publishes the big report and then it just drifts away, and there are no governance processes improved and nothing done to scale up the State to ensure that it does not happen again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: The circular, at point No. 15, states that all Government Departments, local authorities, the HSE, public bodies and all bodies in receipt of public funding must comply, as appropriate, with the relevant requirements of the infrastructure guidelines. In the case of State companies, the board of each must satisfy itself annually that the company is in full compliance with the infrastructure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (12 Jul 2023)

John McGuinness: It goes back to the Secretary General.