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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: I welcome Mr. Watt and his staff. On the budgetary process, is it correct that capital expenditure proposals are included as tables and information in the budget documentation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Does Mr. Watt accept that people have confidence that this is the likely spending profile of Ireland owing to it being included in the budget documentation? It also gives an indication to the markets of the likely borrowing profile. In turn, it affects how cheaply or expensively the country can borrow, depending on whether the estimates appear to be reasonable or unreasonable. Am I correct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: When parliamentarians, including the members of this committee, business people and so forth, receive the budget documentation, they do not expect it to be exactly correct because it is a forecast. People understand that, but the scale of the change in the case of the national children's hospital to what had previously been predicted just a short period after the budget was announced has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Would Mr. Watt accept that his statement would be shocking to a lot of people? His assertion that this is a manageable amount and, therefore, it does not matter too much-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Can I just ask the question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Hold on. Can I ask a question please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Does the Department have a weekly management meeting? Do Mr. Watt and his civil servants sit down with the Minister and Ministers of State and go through all of the pertinent financial and other issues related to the Department? This is such a significant project in the Irish context and is so important to the country. It is also such an expensive project, even at the old price, especially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Yes, but in this case it was not locked down because it was wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Can I ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Given the scale of this particular project, there would appear to be relatively few contractors in Ireland who could bid for it. It seems to me that the contractors are able to call the shots on variations, although Mr. Watt has said that they will have to prove their case. Is there an effective cartel in operation among a chosen group of contractors? The Taoiseach was in Lisbon last week...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Who made that comparison?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: Do they work in Mr. Watt's Department? If so, they must not know much about building.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Standards (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 588. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of on-site audits carried out by her Department or on its behalf on ECCE providers in each of the years 2015 to 2018; the attendance records of those children for which payment was made; the proportion of providers audited in each of the years in question; and if she will provide a detailed analysis of the results of these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 589. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the policy of her Department, or the agents under the remit of her Department, to check all PPS numbers of children supplied by ECCE providers with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that the numbers quoted are correct and that the children are eligible and resident here; if so, the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 590. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the policy of her Department, or the agents under the remit of her Department, to check all PPS numbers of children supplied by ECCE providers with the Department of Education and Skills to confirm that the children are not also registered as pupils in a national school; the number of PPS numbers checked in each of the years...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff in her Department engaged on the audit of funded programmes; the level of qualifications of each, for example, part or fully qualified accountants; and the number of on-site audits carried out for each of the programmes managed by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2018. [11481/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: I welcome the witnesses. I cannot quite grasp what Mr. Tobin means by "culture". It sounds very nice but my experience is that a financial institution is usually a very powerful one and individual customers, whether a single person taking out his or her first mortgage or a couple buying a house, are very much at a disadvantage. Years ago, the culture was such that a person could barely get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: I do not know if the Department has done any research into this, but professional landlords are driving rents very high and this is a significant economic factor. While the numbers in this market are small compared to more traditional investors, such as mortgage holders who buy residential property for a family, they are driving rents up to much higher levels, which means a three-bedroomed...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector Funding (13 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 325. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans regarding the 12 volunteer centres for 2019 for which the allocations were significantly below an amount in a particular centre (details supplied); the options under consideration to ensure these centres are sufficiently funded; if the necessary funding will be granted; and the timeframe in which a decision may be reached....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B (Social Policy and Public Services) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [9423/19]