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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: It is accepted that such people occupy the premises and own the premises.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: They own the premises they occupy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank Professor Higgins very much for his presentation here this evening, and all the witnesses for making their time available and for their contribution to progressing this project. I know that they are all very busy. We heard earlier from Mr. Simon McGarr, a solicitor, who outlined that under the 299-year lease the buildings will not belong to the State but to the St. Vincent's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: What about the issue of permitted use?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Every other legal practitioner would accept a leasehold title of 299 years as good title to acquire.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the online retail scheme; the amount of funding that has been allocated to the scheme since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide updated details on his Department’s work to identify the prevalence and type of drug use among the third-level student population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25080/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pathways that are being made available for people with disabilities to access further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I will focus on the issue of public contracts, in particular, public private partnership and the way forward. I am concerned about the process of the putting in place of public contracts, as a result of which a major cost is being added to the contracts. I will cite the example of a contract with which I was directly involved. It was a school premises where a new school needed to be built....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: With regard to the system in Departments, whether it be the Office of Public Works, the Department of Health or the Department of Education, does the Mr. Moloney accept the process involved from the time we decide on a project, to it going for and securing planning, to getting it up and running is far too slow? Does he accept that process needs to be reviewed, given that in the private...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I will cite the example of a project where a local authority got a project done from start to finish in two years. I had the privilege of being Lord Mayor of Cork from 2003 to 2004. I had a very good city manager, Joe Gavin, there at that time. We had many properties rented for staff around the city. He wanted to do an extension to City Hall. He got companies to tender, design, apply for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: We ran into problems with some public private partnership projects. What mechanisms need to put in place to ensure with public private partnerships there needs to be an external oversight on behalf of the relevant Department to make sure all that is set out in the contract is being delivered?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Moloney see that mechanism now being used? He said nothing has been done since 2015. That is seven years ago. Is Mr. Moloney saying we now have the expertise in the Departments to make sure we have all the mechanisms in place, if we go down that road?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Is Mr. Moloney satisfied that all the safety mechanisms are there in respect of those public private partnerships, so we do not have a repeat of what happened in projects?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Mooney stated: “I would like to update the committee on some of my Department’s priorities for the sustainable management of public expenditure and driving and supporting the reform programme.” I will touch on two issues, the first of which is the Department’s overall involvement in long-term planning within Departments. Is it the case that it is not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: To return to the local authority issue, the planning regulator is now telling local authorities that they have rezoned too much land, and the local authorities are looking five, ten or 15 years ahead because they want to put in the water infrastructure. Does Mr. Moloney accept there is no point in putting in a 2 inch water pipe to service 50 houses if there will be 500 houses in the area in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: To return to the point I made about health, 740,000 people are now aged over 65 and within eight years, that will be 1 million people. At any one time, 50% of all the people occupying hospital beds are over the age of 65. We now face a huge logjam in the system unless we undertake long-term planning involving care in the community, yet we are doing nothing about that. Has Mr. Moloney's...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: In six years, there has been no significant increase in the number of public health nurses. Surely Mr. Moloney's Department should intervene in that scenario? I was recently contacted by a 78-year-old man who lives less than 1 mile from an office where public health nurses are based. He was in hospital for three months as a result of Covid, after which he came home. To this day, he has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank all of our guests for coming before the committee and giving us the information we are seeking. One of the witnesses before the committee last Thursday has now decided to describe freehold and leasehold as freehold being like owning a car and leasehold like owning a caravan. Therefore, when someone owns a caravan they cannot set out the direction they go in. Taking this, it means...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Does it have full control over that building?