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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which she expects the island of Ireland in its entirety to remain an attractive location for foreign direct investment post-Brexit and into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25841/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional time will be allocated to submit relevant documentation in respect of a rent supplement payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Expenditure (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full extent of expenditure in each of the past five years to date in respect of HAP support or rent support in lieu of local authority housing; the extent to which such annual expenditure can be replaced as capital investment in respect of local authority or affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our witnesses for appearing before the committee and giving us their respective reports. That is a very useful starting point. I am a little concerned about the direction in which we tend to go at some of these meetings because it would appear that the Government seems to be in some way blocking or impeding progress in terms of delivering much-needed services to a very vulnerable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: That is a contract. The services are being provided on a contractual basis. I agree, as that is my understanding as well. To what degree does that entail the Department of Health or the HSE providing support for pensions or for other services? In my view if one has a contract to provide a service, it entails everything. One brings one's baggage to the contract and one provides...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Wait a second.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: It is my intention to come back in. That is good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I hesitate to interrupt but that is not an answer to my question. In a contracting situation, the reference to the terms on which the response comes from the person or the organisation to whom we provide the contract is not really relevant. The relevant issue is the extent of what we propose to provide under the contract and the cost to the person to whom we are making the contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: One presumes that the true cost is determined by a specification as to what the contract is. It is either a true cost or it is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: The true cost arises if I advertise for somebody to contract to provide a particular service. The detail of that particular service is what the contract is going to entail, not in respect of some ancillary issues that might add costs afterwards. In respect of Government contracts, it is illegal to qualify a contract or to extend it beyond its original terms. My question still remains....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I state emphatically that this is an unsatisfactory way in which to engage in contractual business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I need to bring it back to both parties, namely, those providing the contract and those seeking to have the contract provided. If we have a series of provisions and additions emerging throughout the year, we will not be able to set down a precise cost. It does not work that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I agree entirely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I have a couple of other questions to be answered. I do not want mine to be the shortest contribution to the meeting, which started at 9 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I am keeping a closer eye on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Hopefully, Deputy Kelly will not have to be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Can Mr. O'Regan provide a rough estimate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: Can Mr. O'Regan envisage a situation whereby voluntary bodies, on an ongoing basis, can inform the HSE and the Minister for Health at the beginning of the year that they will have add-on costs throughout the year arising from extra services that need to be provided or additional costs associated with services that are being provided and in what way? I am mindful of the fact that we cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: So the supplement required was much bigger than was identified at the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: The National Federation of Voluntary Bodies made a submission to Sláintecare-----