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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Taoiseach do that? Will he answer that question? I am not taking from anything else he is saying or doing but in relation to bonds and the financing of this genocide, will the Taoiseach do everything he can to stop it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It acts unilaterally.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach could ask the Central Bank to comply with an instruction on this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It authorises sales.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: What about the sale-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for coming before the committee. On Vote 9, which concerns the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, under administration, No. 7, there was a substantial increase, of 33%, relating to policy reviews, consultancy services and research. Does the Minister know what is driving that substantial increase of 33%? Similarly, there was a 67% increase in respect of compensation...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for the answers but he missed one of the questions I asked. It was on Vote 9.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: It was on Vote 9, administration, No. 10, compensation on losses. There is a 67% increase and I asked what is driving that.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 31. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [22413/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review a deportation order (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27735/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Provision (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the increased level of privatisation and outsourcing in the provision of public services, its effect on cost overruns and outcomes for citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28802/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Provision (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: What controls and monitoring are in place for the runaway train of public money being used to outsource and privatise public services?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Provision (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for the answer, which was really about the industrial relations processes around agreements and outsourcing. I am asking what financial controls and monitoring are in place. There is a myriad of examples of what should be public services being outsourced with detrimental outcomes for the users. We saw this week the National Treatment Purchase Fund has created perverse...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Provision (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: As Minister with overall responsibility for public expenditure and reform, does the Minister see a role for himself in this? This is happening across Departments. I will provide another example, namely, homeless emergency accommodation by private providers. Some are making huge profits and in some instances are providing emergency accommodation where there are bloodstains on the sheets and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on reform of the ethics in public office legislation, given that the review of the statutory framework was completed in December 2022; the reason for the delay in publishing the heads of a Bill; if he expects this Bill to be introduced this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28132/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: An update on the ethics in public office legislation was promised in the programme for Government in 2020. It never happened. The Minister's Department concluded its review in December 2022. We were promised heads of a Bill but have never seen them. It is now two and a half years later. When will those heads of Bill be published?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his reply but we are going backwards here. The review was concluded by his Department well over two years ago. We should have seen a heads of Bill at this stage. His predecessor, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, who I know the Minister works closely with, told this House a year ago that "we are nearly done in respect of the drafting of the heads of the Bill and I hope to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister. However, I do not understand how his predecessor, the current Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, who is perfectly competent and able, was in a position to tell the Dáil a year ago that the heads of Bill was almost ready to be published and he was hoping to bring it to Government very shortly. How was it possible for Deputy Donohoe to do that a year ago...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Disability services in this country are chaotic and threadbare. Families of children with additional needs have to fight for the very basics. All they want for their children is to be able to access an education and appropriate services and a chance for them to fulfil their potential. The very first step for most is to get an assessment of need and there are now over 15,000 children who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I asked the Tánaiste whether he would confirm what the Taoiseach said last week, which was that there had been indecision from the Government on this and that it could not agree over the past three years. I believe he implied in his answer that the Government had not been able to agree what to do. He is saying there need to be reforms to legislation but it is three years since the High...