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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences Applications (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 753. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of exploration and drilling licences granted between 4 June 2007 and 23 January 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23276/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider restoring the household benefits package for carers who do not live with the people for whom they care, which sees them take home less than most other recipients of social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23532/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal for invalidity pension can be reviewed for a person (details supplied). [23580/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Benefit (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of new fathers who have availed of paternity benefit across counties Roscommon and Galway since it was introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23776/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 978. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant schemes available for private wells and septic tanks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23780/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: I welcome Mr. Coffey and the other witnesses from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. The report is detailed and welcome. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council makes a key contribution to the budgetary process, one which makes it more robust and ensures it is transparent. Under the current budgetary process, better and more detailed information reaches those who are making the decisions. The...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: One of the key matters that the-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: The Secretary General of the Department of Finance was before us in the Committee of Public Accounts two weeks ago and we could challenge him in a number of ways in terms of the various different concerns that arose in one of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's previous reports. In July 2018, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council carried out a report on designing a rainy day fund that can fit in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: Has the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council looked at what more a prudence fund would require to be operable and to adhere to the fiscal rules so that it could be deployed in that manner?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: Obviously, it is not to be deployed at a particular time and it is there to be kept like a rainy day fund. Is that the idea behind it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: Would a prudence fund require primary legislation?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: I want to be clear on the difference between it and a rainy day fund in terms of how it is deployed. The witnesses are obviously talking about ring-fencing receipts in a prudence fund. Is that correct?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: There has been a significant increase in capital expenditure and, over a five-year period, it is up almost 90%. The question arises of the payback to the wider economy. In a previous period when there was double-digit growth in current expenditure, credit increased quite rapidly, whereas credit is almost at stalemate at the moment and the macroprudential rules are acting as a safeguard to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: With regard to how additional corporation tax receipts are channelled, obviously, the rainy day fund is due to be established at the end of this year, there is a significant increase in capital expenditure and there is also the measure to reverse the reduction in VAT in the hospitality sector to bring in additional revenue. How significant are these three individual items in terms of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: With regard to the large investment in capital infrastructure, in the council's view, does that create less of a risk to the economy than current expenditure in terms of the payback through improving our infrastructure, given we had a lost decade, with no real investment at all in capital infrastructure?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [24405/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (13 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [24710/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24758/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [24802/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (13 Jun 2019)

Peter Burke: 194. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is funding for providing a new concept of a full outdoor preschool. [24792/19]