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Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Who is the head of that team?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: If there is a failing in future, will it be on Mr. McCallion's head?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the outstanding policies of financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation pertaining to pay restoration. [26317/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of unwinding financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, and restoring pay disaggregated by salary brackets. [26318/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of unwinding financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, and restoring pay disaggregated by department and public role, for example, nurses or teachers and so on. [26319/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of unwinding financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, according to the current approach. [26320/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the schools PPP bundle 5. [26232/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will take even less time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will not even ask a question. I want to correct the record which has just been inaccurately corrected. The heading of build-acquisition-lease does not cover social housing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: It does not.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: No social housing was built in County Wicklow.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is factual.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is because they are the figures from the Department.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: What I was going to say was that we needed to have an honest conversation about some of the facts being used and the information being put out. I have just heard Deputy Barry Cowen say the fiscal space will probably be reduced to a figure of €700 million as a result of a deal Fianna Fáil did with its partners in government.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Let us have an honest conversation. In the economic statement just published, the Government states there is €800 million for further allocation. If we were to look at the fiscal rules and adhere to them, particularly the expenditure benchmark - the benchmark that has been implemented for the past number of years - they are there for a reason and that is to prevent this...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is wrong.

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Politics is about choice. At certain moments, these choices can be limited by the circumstances in which we find ourselves. At other times, the freedom to choose is clear. We are at such a juncture, given the upcoming budget. The Minister for Finance tells us that the public finances have been stabilised, we are the fastest-growing economy in the EU and our economy has recovered from the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Capital Expenditure Programme (20 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will cost a capital plan for each of the years 2019 to 2023 with the national development plan, NDP, for the same period (details supplied). [26942/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (26 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if extra resources will be allocated to the Passport Office to clear the backlog in applications and answer applicants' queries promptly in view of the fact that it is the holiday season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27911/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (27 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a proposal. [28111/18]