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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of publicly owned lands suitable for residential units; the number of residential units built on publicly owned land in each of the past five years; the steps he has taken to enhance the construction of residential units on public land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (15 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the next report from the Public Service Pay Commission on recruitment and retention in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47599/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (15 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to meet with representatives of a union (details supplied); the outcome of those discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47609/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (15 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with representatives of a union (details supplied); the outcome of those discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47608/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Relations (15 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if he is engaging with a union (details supplied) regarding its rejection of the recruitment and retention proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47601/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (15 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism he is planning to put in place to deal with anomalies in pay structures for nurses and midwives relative to other professions working in the health service as recommended by the Public Service Pay Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47603/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (15 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 144. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the poor data given to the Public Service Pay Commission, which hindered its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47605/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Service Pay Commission Reports (15 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 145. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place a medium and long-term national workforce plan based on service need as recommended by the Public Service Pay Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47607/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Broadband Plan (20 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact on the national development plan if the tendering process for the national broadband plan is cancelled and an alternative roll-out plan is initiated; the amount of extra resources that would be required for the national broadband plan; the body the savings would be obtained from within the national development plan resource...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (22 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of replacing all nursing home facilities with retirement villages; if a detailed impact assessment has been undertaken on the proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48711/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (22 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents in nursing home care facilities nationwide. [48712/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (22 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of persons requiring nursing home care in five, ten, 15 and 20 years according to demographic analysis. [48713/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (22 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for nursing homes nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48714/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has undertaken a value for money review of the cost of the national broadband plan; the impact it will have on the on the wider national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49186/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: I will let the Minister answer first and will add up my time after that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: I hear what the Minister is saying. An evaluation is taking place and it is difficult for him to commit on the cost this will entail, in spite of how long it has been going on and the various reports and controversies surrounding the provision of broadband. As he said during the lunchtime news, 27% or 28% of the population, or 500,000 homes, still do not have access. All they want to know...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 4 o’clock However, the Minister acknowledges the EIB has already committed €500 million towards the entirety of whatever process is put in place to provide the national broadband plan. The Government recently published the national development plan with various aspects of it having been launched in recent times and more to come in the coming months. Regarding next year's...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 58. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the controls in place to prevent Departments from breaching their expenditure ceilings in a given year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49187/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: This question is primarily related to the overspend and the excess in respect of the Department of Health that we have seen in recent years. Is it definitive that the Department of Health will be over budget this year by approximately €700 million? They are not necessarily budget expenditure ceilings. They appear to be negotiated ceilings. In respect of the Department of Health, it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: I would like to think that would be the case, and I sincerely hope it is, but it has not been in recent years. We get the kickback from the public when they hear about an excess expenditure over either negotiated or budgeted ceilings in various Departments. They do not see that on the ground, and they do not see it in respect of health. Perhaps the HSE was right and it has cost €700...