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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Dare I say it, but who do these people think they are if they feel they can push back on such significant funding and some basic systems that we need to put in place? My last question is on public-private partnerships and how they work. In my second round of questions, I might ask more about consultants. How do PPPs work in hospitals? How does the cost of, say, ICU units or blood banks...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Like St. Vincent's.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: I might pick up on that later.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: I must keep an eye on the clock because I have to leave for Questions on Promised Legislation. I want to pick up exactly where I left off. We were using the example of St. Vincent’s hospital and talking about blood banks and ICUs. Is University Hospital Limerick a voluntary hospital?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: They would not?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Okay, that is fine. That is clarified in the framing of the price. To go back once again, I wish to clarify some issues on a topic I did not raise the last time, regarding the potential write-off of PPE and vaccines. Is that all related to a build-up around Covid-19 or since then?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Is there a rolling contract or are all those contracts finished now? There was a reference by Mr. Mulvany, although it might have been in a different context, about a build-up in 2025, 2026 and 2027. Was that related to Covid-19 or what was the situation?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has examined the opportunities of greater promotion of engineering careers to ensure there is a pivotal pipeline of engineering talent which is necessary to deliver key infrastructure in the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55834/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has examined the option of widening the apprenticeship routes to include routes into engineering; if his Department will provide greater information and training to guidance counsellors on engineering careers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55833/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Regional Development (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: 108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a list of projects in Kildare allocated funding by his Department in each of the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55828/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Regeneration Projects (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: 125. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when allocation funding under the town and village renewal scheme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55827/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: How does it work with the likes of blood banks and ICUs in the context of charges? I know that in University Hospital Limerick, there was discussion about companies being paid and of consultants who work in both the public and private spheres. How do you differentiate between who is using these companies? If companies are coming in and using the HSE’s-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: I have no problem with that. Is the contract up to the end of 2026?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Does that mean we have to buy a certain amount? Are we contracted to purchase a certain amount in that period?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: When did we sign that contract?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Who are we buying them from?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Have we got contracts with Pfizer, Moderna and those huge companies? Are we saying that we do not need this?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: Yes, but obviously there is an excess building up.