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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (19 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who left his Department in 2022, by grade and quarter, in tabular form. [2679/23]
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The point was made last week that the question is not about the fact that errors were made or that issues arose but about how those issues are responded to when they arise and how those errors are responded to when made. It has to be said that, in their response to this, the Minister and his Government have made a complete hames of it. That is a charitable reading of the situation. At the...
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is a different point.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: With all due respect, the Minister should just answer the question.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is talking down the clock now.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am taking that as the Minister's answer.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I have heard what the Minister said. There are a number of forms we are required to fill out after an election. With regard to the election expenses statements from 2016 and 2020, is it the case that the Minister has amended both of those documents to include additional expenditure?
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is there a corresponding correction that needs to be made in relation to the donation statements, which of course would have been filled in the best part of a year after the election? Surely if the Minister is saying that he must change the election expenses declaration in relation to his expenses in his election campaign, surely that also requires a donation statement correction for both...
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Not the corporate donations. It is the donations in kind.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What about the other aspects-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: -----in terms of the people who were employed?
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I made the point last week that what the Minister is doing and the explanation he is providing for these various figures sounds very much like reverse engineering to suit the rules. That is not the case in relation to donations that, as I have already said, are goods and services that have commercial value, which must be declared donations. The Minister seems to be suggesting these were not...
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is that correct?
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is using expenses and donations-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to just bear with me for a couple of moments. I am not talking about the corporate donation. I am talking about the donations in kind that the Minister got with people being paid to put up his posters and for the provision of vans. The Minister last week said, as I understand it, that they were actually donations to the party, so how did the Minister-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No. I am looking for an answer to this question.