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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of the capital review; if the ten-year plan will outline funding beyond the 2021 timeframe; the way in which it will co-ordinate with the national development plan; if it will it incorporate a review of the role of PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53590/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: The capital review plan has been announced many times. Will the Minister provide an update on it? I am conscious that he intends to link the capital review with the national planning framework, a document which is extremely flawed. It is only in the consultation phase. Will the roll-out of the national planning framework delay the national capital plan?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: While I know it is not the responsibility of the Minister's Department, the national planning framework is a document that is causing serious concern. It has laid out choices with regard to the cities that are being selected but is leaving everything else to the regional assemblies in terms of spatial planning and, one would imagine, in terms of capital investment. Were we to publish the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: The International Monetary Fund, IMF, published a review of our infrastructure earlier this year and was generally positive about a lot of our infrastructural projects. However, it did state that the differing sectoral approaches to infrastructural development was an issue. It also noted that the state of our infrastructure was a barrier to progress. I presume the plan will deal with that...

Other Questions: Public Service Retirement Age (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: No one will have to work.

Other Questions: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I want to express my frustration because I sought to table this issue as my first priority and the Minister's office transferred it to the Department of Health. I thank Deputy Burton for tabling it. The HSE wrote in the immediate aftermath of the FEMPI legislation, in 2010, to all of these section 39 organisations and withdrew the equivalent amount of the FEMPI reductions in public...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the guidelines for public procurement are being applied consistently throughout the public service; the specific measures that have been implemented to ensure that there is adherence to the rules on public procurement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53462/17]

Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister and I have had several discussions on procurement and particularly on making it a friendlier process for small business. Is he happy that the guidelines for public procurement are consistent across the public service? Is he happy that those rules are being applied? Will he comment on an issue that arose overnight, the spending of €135,000 by the Central Bank on a...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State. It is in this morning's Irish Mirrorand I recommend that the Minister of State look at it. It sends a very bad signal as people are still struggling. We have discussed the shortage of money for section 39 organisations but in some sections of the State there is a level of extravagance. I acknowledge the work being done by the Minister of State and his office...

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the flood relief projects undertaken in 2017; the projects planned for 2018; the status of CFRAM; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53461/17]

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: I ask the Minister of State to provide an update on the status of CFRAM and on the major projects that are planned. I do not want a long list of everything the Minister of State has done, which I am sure he had planned to give, just an update on CFRAM and the major projects planned for 2018.

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: Give me time.

Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: Given the season, I was going to be nice to the Minister of State and acknowledge that he has woken up many people in the OPW. I hope that continues. I acknowledge the progress on CFRAM. If the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, has been living in the Minister of State's office, I have been living in his ear in respect of this matter. However, it is important that...

Appropriation Bill 2017: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: We will be supporting the Bill. As the Minister of State said it is a very technical Bill, but it is important. The recent discussions around a potential election highlighted the importance of this Bill. They also perhaps highlighted an issue as to whether or not this is the most effective way to be doing business in this day and age. We bring this Bill in on the very last day of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the €788 million below profile announced in the fiscal monitor will be returned to the central fund or if the funds will be kept in each Department in the event that spending projections across Departments are not met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53463/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (14 Dec 2017)

Dara Calleary: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff in the Office of the Government Chief Information Office in each of the years from 2013 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54141/17]

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2018)

Dara Calleary: What is this Government's plan?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Jan 2018)

Dara Calleary: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision for children with special needs to attend preschool for an additional year rather than commence primary school at six years of age; his views on whether such children would benefit from a second year in preschool rather than commencing primary school at six years of age; his further views on whether some children with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (16 Jan 2018)

Dara Calleary: 550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if housing resident associations are eligible for the community based CCTV scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Jan 2018)

Dara Calleary: 743. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be available from the HSE for home subcutaneous immunoglobulin treatment for a person (details supplied). [54692/17]