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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I will emphasise one point. We are dealing with capital projects and not the day-to-day running of the HSE.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: We can talk about hospitals in the context of projects under construction but not the day-to-day current expenditure.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: It is the infrastructure. I call Deputy Neville.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. I call Deputy O'Hara.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. Deputy Clendennen is next.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Senator. We have had a good run around. Everybody has had an opportunity. There were several themes I picked up there, including what Senator Flynn said. One issue was the cost. I am putting the Department of public expenditure on notice to take this into consideration for next week. If somebody draws up a plan and it is to be built this year, the figure will be X, for...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I now resume the meeting. I advise the committee that we will meet at 3.30 p.m. in committee room 1 going forward. We will move on to any other business. Regarding our next meeting, I propose the following matters be considered: any correspondence that we will have at the committee at that stage. For public meetings, an invitation to the Secretary General of the Department of public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the situation whereby under circular 0080/2024, a new start up grant of €30,000 was approved to support the repurchasing of the existing accommodation to facilitate the opening of new special classes in schools, whereas a grant immediately prior to this was €15,700; and in view of the fact that many schools have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update in relation to a project at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional school accommodation for a post primary school, form ASA (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25833/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider introducing a system whereby people on the carer's allowance can sign off on various weeks, like the system with jobseeker's payments whereby people can mark (X and O) on days they were working so that they do not claim, in view of the fact that people sometimes may get work while on carer's allowance, it may...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (20 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 859. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding the improvement needs to a health centre and the expansion of facilities at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25821/25]

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: No apologies have been received. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. They are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: We will note that. I thank Deputy McCormack. As agreed at the first meeting of the committee, members are requested to send forward nominations for the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach to the secretariat by 28 May. At our previous meeting, I suggested that the Leas-Chathaoirleach might come from the Opposition. Members from the Government parties are not excluded but I thought it was...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: When we draw up our work programme, as soon as is practicable, that item of correspondence will be taken into consideration. The next item on our agenda is a discussion with Department officials.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: The purpose of today’s meeting is to meet the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to discuss the steps involved from concept to commission of large-scale capital projects. He is the first witness before this committee, and, inevitably, we will have a lot to do with his Department in the work of this committee. I am pleased to welcome Mr....

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: You are okay. Keep going.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: Thank you, Mr. Moloney. I will call on speakers as they indicate but I will first ask a few direct questions myself. Mr. Moloney might not have the answers here today but he can forward them to us in writing. He mentioned it is a review that is taking place. Will it be an update or just a review of where we are at? Are new items going into it? Is it a review or an update?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Moloney mentioned the Cabinet committee on infrastructure. If he has the list of which Departments are there, he might tell us, or if not, he can send that on to us.