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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: On a very small scale, much smaller than------

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister and his officials for their willingness to attend, unlike one of the Secretaries General, to whom the Chairman has written several times. I am sure there will be another opportunity for us to meet him. I am delighted that the Minister has committed to meeting formally with the Minister for Health to monitor the health budget. He said that he and the Minister have met...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: Did any red flags emerge at those meetings?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: Was expenditure lower than expected in January and February and higher in March?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: With regard to the property tax, what does the Minister say to the people who live on one side of the road and have been paying property tax continuously for a number of years, while someone who buys a newly-built house opposite them is paying no property tax?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: The Minister expects an increased yield from it, given that thousands of properties that are not included in the existing local property tax will be brought into a revised or reviewed local property tax. Would that yield be commensurate with the numbers that are being brought in or does the Minister expect to increase the yield anyway?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)

John Lahart: As they are valued now?

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Deputy Curran. We are delighted to get this Bill to Second Stage. It is necessary legislation which we introduced on First Stage recently. I wish to address the reasons Fianna Fáil is introducing this legislation. Quad bikes and scramblers are terrorising too many communities. It is a growing and...

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: It has.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: We are not saying that.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: It does not affect it.

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: It is a pity the senior Minister has gone and that we do not have an opportunity to respond to him. I thank everybody from this side of the House who participated in the debate. I will briefly summarise for the record what the Bill will do. It proposes to make riding a quad or scrambler bike in an antisocial and dangerous manner an offence under public order legislation. There would be an...

Road Traffic (All Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motor-cycle) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: We welcome the support of several of the Independents and our colleagues in Sinn Féin and the Labour Party. This should go to Committee Stage. We should take this issue out of these interdepartmental cross-departmental multifactorial quasi-functional committees and start talking turkey about it. Open spaces are being ripped up, football pitches are being interrupted and young people's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a proposal to house six classes from a secondary school in a nearby Gaelscoil (details supplied); if his Department approved plans for such a move; his views on whether such a move would impact on the ethos of the school; his plans to prevent the move; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18584/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of rank and file gardaí in Terenure Garda station since 2012, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18401/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Patronage (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 605. To ask the Minister for Health the owner of St. Vincent's Private Hospital, Dublin; and the owner of St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin. [18397/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and-or grants for building, plant or equipment provided to St. Vincent's University Hospital since 2010, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18398/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (8 May 2019)

John Lahart: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and-or grants for building, plant or equipment provided to St. Vincent's Private Hospital since 2010, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18399/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (14 May 2019)

John Lahart: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made on the acquisition of a site for a post-primary school to serve the Citywest and Saggart areas of County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20543/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 May 2019)

John Lahart: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made and the timeline for the selection of a patron for a proposed post-primary school in Citywest and Saggart, County Dublin. [20544/19]