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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I would appreciate that because there is a long list of people waiting to be assessed, yet the list of people waiting for work to be done is quite small relative to the number of operations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank the Secretary General for his presentation. I want to touch on a few issues concerning the Exchequer financial outturns. Irish Water received €96 million in 2015, €184 million in 2016, €270 million in 2017 and nothing in 2018. In 2019, Irish Water received €758 million by way of a capital contribution. Please outline the difference between a capital...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: If Irish Water borrows into the future, does this mean the State will end up having to cover those loans even though the Government may not be directly involved in the level of borrowing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: That includes shareholding in all the banks as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I want to come back on an issue I raised relating to dividends from State companies. The figure has decreased substantially in the past five years. Is there an explanation for that? What is the expectation over the coming three years? Is there a particular reason it has literally come down by more than 50%?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: It is a fairly substantial reduction.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: The question of servicing of the State debt was touched on earlier. The figure was €209 billion at the end of December 2019. It will now be up to €220 billion. Will there be a substantial increase? We are obviously going to have to pay back capital as well as interest. What likely change will arise in respect of same?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Can we get a breakdown of the figures for each of the years?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employees paid under the temporary wage subsidy scheme from March to September 2020 are entitled to receive the short-time work support payment from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if legal advice has been received in relation to applications by an airline’s (details supplied) employees for short-time work support or ‘X’s and O’s’ supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34892/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason decisions on applications by the employees of a company (details supplied) for short-time work support between March and September 2020 are still on hold in local Intreo offices pending instruction from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure patient access to the use of new innovations, such as flash glucose monitoring, which is one of the key recommendations in the report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34900/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 716. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department will undertake to enable hospital diabetes teams to deliver a higher volume of appointments with their patients utilising remote monitoring solutions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34901/20]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I very much welcome the opportunity to discuss the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020. In particular, I want to focus on the area of healthcare, which is dealt with in Part 2 of the Bill. It deals with arrangements on healthcare and allows the Minister to make the necessary regulations to deal with this area now that the UK is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank our witnesses for attending and for the work they are doing providing the accommodation for civil servants across the country and for all the other projects the OPW is involved in. On flood relief, the OPW report mentions, in particular, the Blackpool scheme and the Glashaboy flood relief scheme, both of which are in my constituency. We are waiting ten years for the Blackpool...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: My apologies but these are very specific questions. I am waiting ten years and eight years. Some €2 million has already been spent on the Glashaboy scheme, without a stone having been turned. I am looking for simple answers. Have the projects been submitted to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform? When were they submitted? On average, how long is the OPW waiting for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: When was the project submitted and when does the OPW expect to get a decision back from the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Some €2 million has been spent on this project, without a stone being turned. Two environmental impact studies have been completed and now we are having a third one done. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: That was a cost of €2 million. Where are we on the Blackpool project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Again, I need to know if it has been submitted to the Department and if it was, when it was submitted, and when will we get an answer?