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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an organisation (details supplied) will be consulted as part of the stakeholder process engaged by the State Exams Commission following the meeting of the advisory group on planning for State examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a stamp O visa by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37367/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline on resuming short stay visitor visa applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38640/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the plan to expand driver lessons to non-essential workers; the expected timeline for the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38935/21]

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all the witnesses for coming to this meeting. Looking through the briefing documents and, especially, as I have been listening to the contributions, I wonder if I have a very different perspective on this matter compared with some of my colleagues. I come to my questions with that query in mind. We obviously have a significant cost tension. Costs for this project have been going...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Gunning. Yes, that is certainly what I came away with. At the same time, I see him defending each of those claims. What I think we are forgetting is that Mr. Gunning is defending those claims on behalf of the State.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: He is also defending them in respect of the overall escalation of the costs generally. From the briefing documents and my reading of what Mr. Gunning has said this morning, the approach taken has meant that a lower additional cost has been incurred than might otherwise have been the case in respect of conceding claims repeatedly and establishing a new precedent. That is my reading of the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I acknowledge that I have a strong interest in this project being delivered, as does everybody else. I have a strong interest as well, as a member of this committee, in it being done in the most efficient way for the State. This is the second time that Mr. Gunning has appeared before this committee and he also gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Health last week. Mr. Gunning has an...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We will consider this matter and hold people to account at an appropriate time when this process is no longer commercially sensitive. I refer to a contractor putting in an inordinate number of claims against a State entity trying to deliver a project for the State. In that regard, Mr. Gunning has to come in here to carry out this aspect of the battle in public, but representatives of the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand why this is the case. In addition, the evidence and experience to date shows that there has been a series of claims and I can see very good commercial reasons for what Mr. Gunning has just said. However, from the perspective of State accountability, we still want to see how this project has been undertaken and how it has been managed. What I do not want to see in two or three...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Briefly, and coming at this issue in what may be a different way, what lessons does Mr. Gunning think can be derived from this process that may be of benefit to procurement processes generally and help future Governments and the State?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That was a very clever answer.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will follow on from Deputy Sherlock's point about the provision of a note on the court documents. Those court documents will be in the public domain. What exactly is Mr. Gunning going to be able to provide to us?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How quickly does Mr. Gunning think he will be able to get that back to us?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That would be great. Our difficulty is trying to deal with what Deputy Catherine Murphy correctly described as a live issue. There is obviously sensitivity around the public nature of the issue. Will that information come back to us today or tomorrow, ideally before we visit the site tomorrow?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Electric Vehicles (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 6 July 2021, the status of hybrid vehicles and if they fall into the EV category; the position on commercial vehicles in relation to this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39111/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 521. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place for unvaccinated children utilising indoor play centres and camps; the effect this has on these facilities to reopen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39733/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget for Traveller accommodation in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown local authority area; the amount spent to date or most recently of this budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39625/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Community (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the Traveller community who live in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown local authority area; the number of halting sites in the area; the number of members and or families in the Traveller community that are in homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39626/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further consideration has been given to including an ethnicity question in council social housing need assessment forms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39627/21]