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Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know, but I indicated from the outset the aim is to accommodate everybody. It is up to Deputies. Deputy O'Donoghue has the right to go on if he wishes to but there are swings and roundabouts and those kinds of things.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, his staff, and members of the committee, both here and remotely, and those viewing from outside or on television. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that members should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister of State. I call Deputy Doherty.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We cannot have this.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Hold on. One speaker finishes and then the other responds. Listen carefully to each other and then I might even intervene myself, horror of horrors.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I want to intervene for a second.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I know Deputy Doherty is putting the question. I think both sides are genuine in what they are trying to do but they are at cross-purposes. They are not coming at it at the same level at all.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: When will that be required?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State is answering the question.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No. One thing has to come before the other.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I ask members to calm down.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We cannot have an argy-bargy argument across the room. One speaker will finish and then the other will start.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place in Kilcock, County Kildare, will be available for the forthcoming year in the case of the daughter of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8050/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place in Kilcock will be accommodated for the forthcoming year in the case of the children of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts are being made to ensure a child (details supplied) has a school place for September 2023, given they have fully completed their ECCE years, who was refused a place in the two local schools in Kilcock due to them being oversubscribed; if every effort is being made to put in place the resources as required to ensure that each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if every effort can be made to ensure that the daughter of a person (details supplied) has a school place in a local school in Kilcock in September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place can urgently be facilitated in a local school for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8315/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Feb 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place in a local school in Kilcock will be provided in the case of the daughter of a person (details supplied), who has completed two years of early childhood care and education, ECCE, who has to attend the local school due to lack of transport; if all efforts are being made to ensure that no child is left without a school place...