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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Is it not fraud?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Is it not fraud?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I have no truck with the professional organisers of bingo events. I want to focus on the small bingo operators. Bingo is a rural pastime. Small minibuses collect people and bring them to and from bingo once or twice a week in the nearest town. The operators make approximately €100 a month. This will cap that. It is a social thing and that needs to be taken into consideration. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I should not have said rural.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to improve service provision in rural areas in view of the latest CSO figures released in respect of measuring distance to everyday services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50370/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I ask the Minister to outline his plans to improve service provision in rural areas in view of the recent publication of CSO figures in respect of distances to everyday services and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: By the Minister's own admission, the latest CSO figures confirm that this Government is leaving rural Ireland behind with regard to service provision. The report published last week on the distance to everyday services in Ireland makes for very sobering reading. Rural dwellers face distances to most services that are at least three times greater than those faced by their urban counterparts....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I only quoted figures from the CSO-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Statistics are great and the way they are used-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The Minister is a great story teller and the way he tells it is great but for people living in rural Ireland, the story is not so good. I do not begrudge people in Dublin and other urban areas their fair share of Government funding. My issue is with the imbalance in terms of what is being spent in rural Ireland. We are crying out for broadband and for transport providing connectivity from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Will we go back to 1932 altogether?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Development Policy (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: It was €3 billion. It may be €5 billion before it is over.

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

Bobby Aylward: While it may be rumour, is there any truth to the suggestion that the ducting for cabling, toilet piping, etc., is too small? I only heard recently that it is not wide enough to carry all the necessary facilities going through these corridors, ducts, ducting or whatever one wants to call them to carry the electric cables, toilet pipes and all that. I have heard that the ducts are not wide...

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

Bobby Aylward: I am asking because there was a bit of ruction here last week regarding a printer that was bought and did not fit. I was told that the same thing could have happened in the building of the children's hospital. I am just clarifying if this happened. Who makes up the design team for the building? Are they Irish or are they foreign?

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

Bobby Aylward: If there were an issue such as I described, who would carry the can? Would it be BAM, the contractors or the design team that would incur the costs if something in the design were wrong? Who would have responsibility and who would carry the costs if something like fittings were wrong?

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

Bobby Aylward: That would be BAM in this case.

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

Bobby Aylward: If there was anything wrong with the design of the building, who would take responsibility?

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

Bobby Aylward: The taxpayer would not be caught for any of those costs.

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

Bobby Aylward: That is why I am asking. It could fall back on the taxpayer again.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres (5 Dec 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome Mr. Reid and his staff. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General is nearly identical to his reports of 2001 and 2010. We all know that the ambition of primary care is to keep as many people as possible out of hospital and in their homes. We all know it seeks to ensure that people are cared for and treated as near as possible to their own homes without blocking up the...