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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: That is our job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Deputy because that sums up the position quite succinctly. Does the Minister wish to make any final remarks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Farrell: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister for her presentation and for dealing with members' questions as comprehensively as she could.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (15 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a cost benefit analysis of the provision of funding to approved housing bodies towards the construction of social homes in 2018 built for local authorities has been conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1361/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (15 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has conducted an activity audit of approved housing bodies in the provision of social homes for 2017 and 2018; the details of the budget provided to each AHB; the number of units provided by each body in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the breakdown of Defence Forces personnel on deployment abroad or on secondment; the details of each mission in 2018; the projected mission of each for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1809/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 33. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces expect a greater deployment of its fleet in the provision of fisheries protection missions in 2019 following Brexit; the planning his Department and the Defence Forces have undertaken in this regard; his views on whether two CN 235 Casa aircraft operated by the Air Corps will be sufficient to complete the tasks required;...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: As the Chairman has described it, I have no issue with those companies coming in. Smaller providers would actually be of more interest to me. However, we both know that is not going to be where we go during the course of a discussion with them. It is not my job to police the committee but I cannot help but feel that the primary purpose of that week's meeting would fall into the policy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is €1.36 billion as of yesterday.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: That is a policy matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is still a policy matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is our job as members of the Committee of Public Accounts to police expenditure of the State. It it not to police the policy objectives of any Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is still not a matter for the Committee of Public Accounts. It is a matter for the line committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: No. It is not a democratic decision. It is a matter of fact.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: That is a matter of policy, Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: That is a matter for the line committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is matter for the line committee. My whereabouts are none of your concern.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is the manner in which you say it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I will do my best to take much less than 20 minutes. I thank the witnesses for attending. If they want to contribute at any point during my questions, they should feel free to do so. That includes the Comptroller and Auditor General. Notwithstanding the remarks on current matters before the WRC, among other things, and the whistleblower who appeared before the committee, the only...