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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: I am proposing a relaxation of the rules as they relate to infrastructure-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: No. I want to be very clear on this.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: My proposal relates to infrastructural projects that this country needs, have a long-term return, add to employment creation and, in particular, address the regional balance, which Mr. Moran's predecessor and namesake was concerned about. These could be in public transport or health projects. The capital expenditure in the health field is behind schedule. I want to be clear - I do not want...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Might TII's presentation be sent to Mr. Watt? It is not us saying this. I will bring Mr. Watt on a spin around my part of the country to show him infrastructure if he wants. TII's presentation----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Does Mr. Watt-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: In regard to the departmental heads, for the past number of years the Department of Health is always the one that went out of kilter. It is bang on profile at present. Mr. Watt mentioned, in his interactions with Deputy Pearse Doherty, that we can come back and look at the revised figures but, actually, we cannot. The Department of Health must act within its own resources if it goes over...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Has Mr. Watt any concerns about the help-to-buy scheme from the information just given by Mr. Derek Moran-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: -----in terms of the scheme going beyond its budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: Consider the return of the investment.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Connectivity Fund (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of proceeds from the Aer Lingus sale invested in the connectivity fund; the details of the projects that received investment to date from the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17359/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been allocated and invested of the €7.5 billion in ISIF funding towards the capital plan; the projects funded for; the amount of investment per project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17356/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale for imposing the rule that the total cost of public private partnerships, PPPs, including up front direct Exchequer costs, must be limited to 10% of the total annual Exchequer capital spending; if he has reviewed this rule and if he will consider revising the rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17354/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money to date that has been spent on the capital plan; the details of the expenditure by Department and by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17350/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital expenditure for the remainder of the capital plan broken down by Department and year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17351/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money that has been committed but not spent under the capital plan; if he will provide a breakdown of the expenditure by Department and by year it is planned to be spent, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17352/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any amount of money committed under the capital plan has been removed from the capital plan; the amount of money involved, the specific projects removed, the amount of this money that was reallocated to other projects, the detail of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17353/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Data (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the PPPs, public private partnerships, currently in existence, the PPPs committed to and the annual cost to the Exchequer for each year to the end of the PPP projects, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17355/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Aer Lingus Sale (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proceeds obtained from the sale of the State's share in Aer Lingus; the exact use these proceeds were put towards; the amount which has been spent or invested on each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17357/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of extra capital expenditure announced in budget 2017, ignoring the €2.2 billion allocated to housing, which constitute the projects and Departments this money has been allocated to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17360/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Data (6 Apr 2017)

Dara Calleary: 258. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the number of school children categorised as the highest priority, that is to say, priority five, for orthodontic treatment in the HSE west region; if category five patients are receiving high priority; the expected timeframe for category five patients to receive treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17303/17]