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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: So there is no finger this time.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: Great latitude was given.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: 40. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the development of a new national tourism policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22111/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Legislative Reviews (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: 144. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the inputs and contributions her Department has made to the review of licensing laws; if she is planning to recommend an entertainment licence that would have validity on an annual as opposed to event basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22378/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will account for the pausing of construction on a social housing project at an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22373/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: 154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental homes or affordable homes that are expected to be delivered in south Dublin County in 2022. [22374/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: 155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when construction is expected to commence on lands at Killinarden for social, private and affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22376/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

John Lahart: 156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of void properties that were brought back into use by the four Dublin local authorities in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22377/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: If there had been no leaks, how would the Secretary General have seen this working out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: To what extent does Mr. Watt think leaks bounced into different actions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Does Mr. Watt think leaks bounced the Department into this? Was it reactive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Mr. Watt referred to positions with regard to the secondments of senior civil servants so he was talking about Secretaries General. There are two Secretaries General who have been seconded. That is by Government agreement on a decision from 2011 and 2021 which says quite clearly that if they have not achieved the 40 years pensionable service or whatever, they will at the end of their term...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: I just want the factual aspect because there is a kind of parallel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Okay. Much has been made of the open-ended secondment in that this was special treatment, but this is treatment for Secretaries General. The CMO position is assistant Secretary General level, am I correct in saying that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Does Mr Watt think that the spirit of those Government decisions from 2011 and 2021 was designed to include deputy Secretaries General as well as Secretaries General?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: I suppose the point I am getting at is there was a standard operating procedure, which was approved by Government in 2011 and 2021, and it seems to cover what has been maybe mischaracterised as an open-ended secondment. The open-ended secondment, therefore, is actual practice if a Secretary General has reached the end of his or her Secretary General term in advance of retirement. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: Would it be Mr. Watt's characterisation that he followed this but it was for a deputy Secretary General, and that was the only difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: That is a reverse kind of secondment

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: The open-ended secondment sounds like it was something special for Dr. Holohan but this was not a special arrangement. It applies to Secretaries General whose tenure concludes before their retirement age. It keeps them at their Secretary General salary in the public service or Civil Service or an international institution. It seems, therefore, to be quite a parallel model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

John Lahart: I will move now to the CMO. It is nice to meet Dr. Holohan face to face. Our meetings up to now have been virtual. Dr. Holohan said he had the support of the Secretaries General of the Department of the Taoiseach and Health and of the Minister. Was it a surprise then when it was suggested that the process be paused? What was Dr. Holohan's feeling around that?