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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Freedom of Information Data (25 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 747. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of freedom of information requests granted, part granted, refused, transferred to an appropriate body, withdrawn or handled outside freedom of information in 2018, in tabular form. [26395/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Freedom of Information Data (25 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 779. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of freedom of information requests granted, part granted, refused, transferred to an appropriate body, withdrawn or handled outside of freedom of information in 2018, in tabular form. [26388/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: It was about Mitchelstown.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Despite the 300,000 being taken out and the doughnut effect, is it fair to say the ESB infrastructure could deliver to all the remaining homes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: For the past two years, Mr. O'Leary's organisation has not looked at this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: For the organisation to examine it again, would the current process have to cease and would a new tendering process have to commence?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I want to raise the same topic. In January, the Taoiseach stated no capital project would be delayed or cut as a result of the cost overrun in the children's hospital. Only last Thursday, in the very seat in which the Tánaiste is sitting, the Minister for Finance reiterated this position during Question Time. He stated no project would be cut or delayed as a result of the cost...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Tánaiste has said the HSE has a very difficult job to do. That difficult job has now become impossible. They are not my words but the words of Ms O'Connor, the interim director general of the HSE. It has become impossible because of the cost overruns associated with the national children's hospital. Somebody needs to get the story straight. As far back as January and right up to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The people who are implementing the plan are telling the Government that that is not correct.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I too wish the four Deputies the best of luck. Deputy Kelleher does not have to worry as Deputy Barry and I will have Cork North Central well looked after in his absence. I refer to the cancer care programme and the Government's commitment to the provision of oncology services. The Tánaiste will be well aware of recent media reports on the number of consultant posts which remain...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Has the position of the HSE changed since 3 May when the then-acting Director General said the additional impact of the children's hospital from 2020 to 2022 had made what was a very difficult situation almost impossible? Has that improved?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: As of today, we cannot say for definite whether projects will be delayed. Is that fair to say?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is not a factor in 2019 but for 2020 and 2021, we cannot say yet whether projects will be delayed for financial reasons. That process is still ongoing.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am sure other colleagues will come back on this but I want to move to another issue, namely, the issue in Cork University Hospital and oncology. We saw reports last week that 13 consultants have resigned or retired from CUH in the past three years, ten of whom were delivering cancer services. There is a huge concern in the region, given the fact the hospital is a national cancer centre,...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The latest data I have shows that four of the seven permanent radiation oncology are vacant or temporarily filled. Mr. Reid might confirm that. Also, one medical oncology post remains vacant. We have 25,000 people waiting for an outpatient appointment for oncology in CUH. Can we give any reassurance to those 25,000 people that the posts can be filled in the very near future? Can we start...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I might come back to that. My colleague has just given me a note. What is the current financial position as of today? What is the deficit we are looking at currently?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yes. Was it €103 million?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: We are looking then at monthly management accounts which will give us a more accurate reflection month on month starting, I think Mr. Reid said, in May.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: When Mr. Reid talks about controls, it means cuts to services.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am happy to clarify my point on controls and cuts to services. I do not want the perception to go out that if savings have to be made during the year, they will come from cuts to services. If Mr. Reid is saying that is not the case, that is fine. The reality is the cuts to services come when the budget is allocated initially at the start of the year when the service plan is being...