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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to develop a clear pathway of care for persons with ME with prompt access to specialists and treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22026/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 459. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the lack of specialist consultants for myalgic encephalomyelitis; his views on whether ME is a multisystem disease involving many areas with many debilitating symptoms which require patients to see many consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22027/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will designate myalgic encephalomyelitis as a reportable health condition in order to obtain robust official collection of data on the number of children, young persons and adults with the condition and the degrees of severity of the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22028/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to update its diagnostic and treatment procedures for persons with myalgic encephalomyelitis to reflect best international practice; if he will address the lack of specialist support within the health service for those suffering with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22029/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Planning Issues (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason stakeholders require planning permission to repair habitat that has been damaged by OPW arterial drainage, that is, damaged without planning permission further to flood relief; and the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland is not using its own exemptions for planning permission to carry out instream repair and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the point at which instream fishery work became a matter for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wastewater Treatment (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland is doing nothing to prevent raw sewage continually running into the waterways that it is responsible for protecting during high water events (details supplied). [21827/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing for People with Disabilities Provision (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units allocated to persons with disabilities in 2017 and 2018; and the detail of the allocation in terms of the number of persons with disabilities here proportionally. [21658/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (21 May 2019)

John Lahart: 690. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grants available for the development of bands specifically pipe bands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21643/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister and his officials for their public service. In fairness, he always attends when we ask. I will ask questions from a budgetary oversight viewpoint. When the Minister talked about how the cost of this project will be covered in the future, the words that came into my head were "revenue buoyancy". He seemed to predicate one's ability to meet the gap or potential gap in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: The Minister mentioned there is a risk involved.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: From a budgetary oversight point of view, there are at least two risks involved. I am concerned about the disparity between the view of the Secretary General and the Minister. Earlier the Minister stated, "No other projects will be delayed or rescheduled and no other changes will be made to the capital allocations for other projects, such as those set out in the [NDP]" and that "the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: If this project does not work out then this is not the committee to which the Minister will return. Rather, it will be the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment. We are the Committee on Budget Oversight and that is why I am focusing on the budgetary oversight aspect of the project.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: Did the Secretary General read the options? Did he have access to the paper with the same options as the Minister?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: The Minister mentioned costed alternatives. Can the costed alternatives be published? I wish to reinforce the following point. Obviously we want Ministers with independent minds who seek advice from all quarters. However, I refer to the points that were issued by the Secretary General, particularly the ones on reputational damage, the risks to the perception of economic competence and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: I assume that the Secretary General has had access to the same options that were available to the Minister, yet still arrived at this advice to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Can the Minister explain the difference in the two outcomes and responses to the two options papers?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: It should have been published.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: That is what the Secretary General formed a view on.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: I will give Deputy Cowen 30 seconds of my time, if I can.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

John Lahart: It is the budgetary oversight competency that is of interest. Essentially, Mr. Robert Watt had a Sir Humphrey Appleby moment with his Minister. When the Minister for Finance told the Taoiseach of his decision and mentioned that the Secretary General had raised some issues, I assume the Taoiseach asked him to summarise what the issues were. They were affordability, the risks to the State...