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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: He does not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: As I said, I am not being flippant. I was genuinely asking because Mr. Fraser had a whole section in his report on the treatment of public servants. He referred to their health and well-being and how some of the comments were so hurtful and disproportionate. I just wanted to know if he was willing to comment further on that since it is in his report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have a conscious bias against Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I do not know whether I can ask this question now or later. With regard to correspondence, at my first meeting at the Committee of Public Accounts, there were a number of issues about which we had asked the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the housing assistance payment properties and the inspection rates. I have not seen any correspondence come in yet. Perhaps this could be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank the Accounting Officer for the answer but it does not give me the answers to the questions. Perhaps the committee could write to the regulator. The two questions to which I am trying to find answers are whether the regulator is aware of the amount of unclaimed prizes and how does she ensure that they are redirected as per contract?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I do not know how the regulator ensures that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: And is aware of the amount.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have a difficulty with it. When reading the reply to the parliamentary question I am not clear whether the regulator even knows the amount of funds.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: The regulator is prevented by law from giving that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: What about the oversight of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will be brief because I think most of the questions have been asked and I will also have the pleasure of meeting Mr. Breen again on Thursday as will several other Deputies. Mr. Breen said he meets with the CEO of the HSE and informs him of cases but does not go into any details; it is a general discussion. Would the HSE have been aware that there were ten cases relating to this issue?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Breen said that he discusses upcoming cases with the executive of the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: It would also have been aware of the other cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does Mr. Breen think it credible that the director general would not be informed by the executive of the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Given what we now know, thanks to Deputy Boyd Barrett, about all ten cases involving American laboratories, and as the person who deals with legal cases on behalf of the State, does Mr. Breen think it would be a prudent decision that we would cease all testing in American laboratories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Breen would not give the HSE any advice based on what he now knows, that we have ten cases that all involve American laboratories, that there is obviously an issue here, that it will cost-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: The State Claims Agency has not done that yet but it is something it would do. Is that correct?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 75. To ask the Taoiseach the capital allocation across his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2022. [20457/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 76. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's capital allocation for projects under way and projects already tendered or committed to spending contractually. [20474/18]