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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The Minister of State indicated that €15 million was the original estimate. Is he saying the final costs will be €17 million or maybe €20 million?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State putting the cost within the ambit of inflation figure he has been using?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: The reason for the increase is extra work which had not been identified until the building had been opened up. However, the cost of the normal work being done is increasing by 6% or 7% up to about 11% or 12%, which are the figures the Minister of State cited.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I return to the OPW's relationship with children's hospital. In other major projects such as Abbotstown, the National Aquatic Centre and so on, where independent companies were involved in construction, the OPW or people with experience of the OPW were heavily involved in those projects, partly for technical reasons and expertise, but also, I imagine, for reasons of proper management and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Mr. Buckley is not aware of the OPW playing that type of role in the children's hospital project.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Nobody in the OPW has been chatting about seeing this, that or the other at the children's hospital.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Mr. Buckley mentioned the Department of Education and Skills. I am sure he is aware of the schools where there is a major scare relating to serious defects, especially in schools in Fingal in north Dublin and in Tyrrelstown in Dublin West. While I know they were design-build contracts of their time, from more than ten years ago, I understand that the Office of Public Works, OPW, gave advice...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: When does the Minister of State expect the gates to be completed or could the axe fall on them in the context of current cutbacks?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister of State expand on his comment on the €3 million reduction? On profiled capital expenditure, he has a sum of €19.4 million pencilled in in 2019. There is a figure of €3 million for a project in Blackpool; €6 million in Douglas; €5 million in Ennis south; €3 million in Glashaboy; €1.6 million in lower Morell; and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Let me interrupt the Minister of State. He has included a figure of €76 million in the Estimate. I have totted up the figures on page 5 and they roughly come to the €76 million mentioned in the Estimate. The Minister of State correctly states he will not touch the first lot of projects and some of the second lot and that the ones due to start in 2019 could be delayed. There...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I have a brief question related to flooding. On planning, what is the relationship between the OPW, CFRAM and the local authorities? Part of the Tolka river basin in my constituency is in an area called Barnhill or Barberstown. Historically, there has been significant flooding in fields in this area every four or five years and also during periods of very heavy rain. The area is marked on...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I do not expect the Minister of State to be familiar with it, but I was asking him whether the local authority was obliged to consult the OPW.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (12 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I will write to the Minister of State about the matter.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (13 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Pelletstown Educate Together national school is a rapidly growing school in an area where hundreds of houses are being built, sold and occupied on a monthly basis. There is demand for an additional 60 children, approximately, for September 2019 and, thus, urgent requirement for two additional prefabricated classrooms and additional space for other school activities on the temporary site...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (13 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, which I acknowledge is very positive. The Minister of State has promised the parents, pupils and staff of Pelletstown Education Together that they will have their prefabs in September 2019. I welcome that promise. We will hold the Minister of State to it. This school has been split and we want a commitment that it will not be split again. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (14 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware of the extreme distress and financial uncertainty being caused to a wide variety of businesses and ventures, particularly those involving adults or children engaging any kind of physical activity, to the point where such businesses and ventures are being destroyed? I am inundated with messages from people saying that this coming year may potentially be their last year...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: Tell that to the people who are closing down.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Digital Services Tax (14 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the EU member states and the European Commission in respect of proposals on the development of a digital tax; if he has been consulted by EU member states on digital tax proposals; his assessment of the impact of such a tax on Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7362/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (14 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance the most recent figures available for tax payments that are six months and one year in arrears; the highest amount in arrears for each tax heading; the amount of taxes outstanding as of 31 January 2019; and the amount he deems to be unrecoverable. [7364/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (14 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has undertaken an economic evaluation of wage levels here and the affordability of rent and house purchases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7363/19]