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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: Right. I have quoted what is written in black and white in the PwC report.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: The report highlights my point about the lack of experience allowing contractors, and the contractor in this case, to play the board for fools as there is no expertise. Let us take, for example, specialised lighting in a hospital setting. The PwC report states that the board will be exploited because of a lack of specialised experience.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Barry can be gobsmacked but we are talking about public funding and public moneys. It is not the first time that the board was appointed lacking in experience. It is the second time that nobody has specialised experience and nobody has led a project of this nature before. It is a case of déjà vu and we have a board with no experience, a fact that is clearly stated in black...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: No but the PwC report highlights the lack of experience on the board and the fact that its members could be exploited, and not for the first time as this is the second board. Hence, the overrun and why we are here in the first instance.

OECD Report on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Ireland: Statements (10 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: This OECD report outlines serious deficits in this Government's policies vis-à-visthe SME sector. It draws attention to the fact that our over-reliance on foreign direct investment, FDI, has led to disparities in regional development. Our tax system is also over-reliant on a small number of multinational corporations, with 45% of the total corporation tax take in 2018 coming from just...

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: Every single day of every single week in almost every constituency clinic the length and breadth of this country, there is one issue that one can guarantee will be to the fore. That issue is the housing crisis, and the fallout from it, and it is being raised by people who have been on the housing list for over a decade, those who have been put to the pin of their collars paying extortionate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51127/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the adequacy of the categorisation by SUSI of mature students as being dependent on their parents due to the fact they reside with them in cases in which they are independent financially and only living at home due to the fact they cannot afford to move out due to the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (10 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) who was refused the SUSI grant due to the fact they were categorised as dependent will be addressed; if he will consider introducing a discretionary element into the rules-based SUSI system for some cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51727/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Rates (11 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has had meetings with Louth County Council regarding an anomaly by which County Louth is the only local authority to have three different rateable values, given the detrimental effect this is having on businesses in some parts of the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50131/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: The Taoiseach just said that the Government has no say in the allocation of home care packages.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: No, it concerns the issue of home care. The Taoiseach is the Head of State. Does he think it is right that a citizen and child of this State, Hannah Donnelly from Drogheda, has now spent 19 months in hospital waiting for a home care package to be approved? This is not the first, second or third time I have raised this matter. To this day she is still waiting. There are eight days to go...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: This is beyond belief. She has spent the last two Christmases in hospital. She is medically fit. The medical opinion was that the best place for Hannah was at home with her family. Will the Taoiseach, as Head of State-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: -----make sure that Hannah Donnelly does not spend a third Christmas in hospital waiting for a home care package?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: Will he ensure that this Christmas is special for Hannah and her family?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: No Government worth its salt-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: -----would inflict that sort of thing on any citizen of this State, let alone a child. Again, it has been 19 months.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: The Taoiseach is the Head of Government.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Imelda Munster: The Taoiseach is full of compassion.