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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I really think it is time the Government looked at this collectively rather than waiting for individual Ministers. The Minister gave the usual reason of commercial operations and private auditors, but there seems to be an inconsistent approach to when public oversight is used. Just across the road, more than 50% of Trinity College's revenue is not from the State, yet every year the books...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I referenced those organisations to highlight the inconsistency of approach. The outrageous scandal in RTÉ brought this to the public's attention. How do we know there are not any other RTÉs? A small commercial operation is used to hide from public accountability. The current system, whereby oversight is conducted by the board of RTÉ by commissioning the audit of accounts,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Anglo Irish Bank and Carillion.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the potential of extending its remit to cover commercial public bodies in a dual audit capacity to ensure greater oversight and accountability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5766/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the Minister engaged with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the potential of the State auditor to cover semi-State bodies that receive public money but engage in commercial activity? I refer to a dual audit capacity. The public would be surprised that the Government does not require this already. Will the Minister consider changing the State auditor's remit to ensure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how the finding of the recently published ESRI report, The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity, will shape the review of NDP ceilings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5760/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister outline the procedure involved in ensuring that the findings of the recently published Economic and Social Research Council, ESRI, report, The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity, will be incorporated and ultimately change the current NDP ceilings so we know we are investing enough in housing and making sure that the construction activity is directed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is an answer but it does not answer my questions. The ESRI report was with the Minister's Department before the budget last year and an early draft was with the Department as early as June last year. This report makes it clear that there is need to increase housing targets. Sinn Féin has spent the last four years warning that housing targets were too low. Finally the expertise...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When it comes to the State building social and affordable homes it is very clear now that the targets for 2023 are not going to be met in counties like Mayo. Indeed not a single house was delivered in Mayo in the first nine months of 2023. Another crucial finding of the ESRI report is about the workforce and the need and potential use of the taxation system to redirect construction work....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Programme (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the legislative programme. [3494/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 113. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the National Development Finance Agency’s examination of construction contracts won by constructions firms that have been suspended from public contracts in Spain for bid-rigging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5762/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a plan or strategy in place for the Office of Public Works to reduce the reliance on leased properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5765/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (8 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3500/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (7 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the number of vacant and derelict properties to enter the compulsory purchase order activation programme in each local authority area in tabular form including the number of compulsory purchase orders or acquisitions to commence in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5634/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 492. To ask the Minister for Health what assistance can be given to a person (details provided) who is living in full time care in a nursing home, registered disabled, non-verbal with no understanding, no family assistance and requires transport for various treatment at different hospitals; who is responsible for transport costs to and from medical appointments; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding for local and regional roads in County Mayo; the breakdown of the details of the investment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the N17 road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on his engagement with the Banking and Payments Federation and the Department of Finance with respect to the defective concrete blocks redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4595/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his reasoning for substantially reducing the remuneration for the Chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4594/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Programme (1 Feb 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3495/24]