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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: Including forgoing some of the projects listed in the national development plan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Minister refuted previously that he would go down that road at all.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: Exactly and that is why it is important the Minister lays out now what will be cut to the tune of €116 million per annum over the next three years to pay for the national children’s hospital overrun. It is equally important he does not confine himself to future revenue to pay for the overrun associated with the national broadband plan because it is massively excessive and will...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: Absolutely and I have no problem whatsoever with that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: This situation is a little bit worse than the Garda's.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Taoiseach said that everything would come from future revenues.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Government tells us that its overruns will be covered by future revenues.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Government's forecasts are not credible.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The party of fiscal rectitude, of course.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: That is going down well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: Go to Mullingar, never mind Mali.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: That is gone. This Government will be gone one day, too. It will not hang on as easily as it did last time.

Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is getting thick over nothing now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (13 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed revisions of the fair deal scheme; the estimated first and full year cost of those revisions; when he expects the relevant legislation to be published; when he expects the legislation to have completed all Stages in the Houses of the Oireachtas; the estimated cost of making these revisions retrospective; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the concerns within his Department on spending in his Department as reported in a newspaper (details supplied); his views on whether there will be a supplementary estimate in 2019 for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25491/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 476. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether his Department and the HSE will spend more than the budgeted voted expenditure in 2019; his further views on whether his Department will require a Supplementary Estimate for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25490/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which delays are impacting the construction of the national children’s hospital; the potential extra cost to the project of the delays; his views on whether the project will be delivered on time in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25561/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 495. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been carried out to assess the cost differential between a patient staying in an acute bed versus receiving home help hours; the average cost of keeping a person in an acute bed for a week; the cost per week of using home help hours; if the cost is less, the reason he is not increasing spending on home help while reducing spending on the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: That is throwing in the towel in relation to 2020 and Ireland can take its beating.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: As we know, this is a budgetary oversight committee and I do not want to overstep our remit. We all accept our responsibility to ensure budgets provide for and acknowledge the cost implications of meaningful policies to arrest and decrease carbonisation. The Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government began that process by implementing carbon tax in the first place. The failure of Government in...