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Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Yes. It is one but there are others.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does the HSE play a role in making sure this is not happening anywhere else?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: My final points are local. Thomastown has a nursing home in Kilkenny and for years HIQA has told us it is not up to scratch because, as the witness referenced, it is an old building and there are fire hazards. There are supposed to be plans in place to build a new hospital and there is land on a greenfield site. I wonder how advanced that is as I am told HIQA has warned the HSE on numerous...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: What is the timescale?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is for the building of the new hospital.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I am told the existing building is a fire hazard. My sister works there and I have been told by nurses that if there was a serious fire in the morning, God forbid, I do not know what would happen.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It will be 2021.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are you thinking ahead, Chairman, for yourself?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Even within counties there is a discrepancy with the subvention being paid to private nursing homes. I am just talking about Carlow and Kilkenny, which is one constituency, where different rates are being paid in different areas that are not far apart. I refer to the monthly subvention. How come one private nursing home is getting more per patient than another? That has been pointed out...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It is discrimination within the one county or constituency where one subvention is bigger than another when they should be all the same.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures being taken to ensure efficient roll-out of the national broadband scheme to rural areas in particular; if he envisages that current timelines will be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13937/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (21 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 1143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there will be any changes to the current criteria of the SEAI's better energy homeowner scheme which may cause an increase in the costs of the associated works for homeowners that avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14019/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects (22 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the results of the review of the Tower Road and Piltown junction on the N24 conducted by Transport Infrastructure Ireland will be published; when funding will be provided to TII to commence works on the safety measures recommended within the review results; whether his Department is in direct contact with Kilkenny County Council to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the legislation governing the release of results from a Director of Public Prosecutions investigation to a person (details supplied) who was the subject of an investigation; if the findings can be released to this person directly; the procedure for procuring same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14402/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (22 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason it has taken 14 weeks for the carer's allowance file of a person (details supplied) to be sent from the carer's allowance section in Sligo to the social welfare appeals office in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14377/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Waiting Times (22 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for a decision on a carer's allowance application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14558/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will start with the education and training boards. Mr. Ó Foghlú already said we are going to write to the four or five that have not made returns on audits done. Is there a reason they have not been made? Are there timescales set for this? Having spoken about governance and good practice, could Mr. Ó Foghlú explain why the groups in four or five counties have not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is Mr. Ó Foghlú happy that everything is or will be in order?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Deputy Rock touched on capital assets and disposal, and 15 schools had control transferred. Does the Department retain ownership or control? What does that mean? When the Department transfers the control, is the ownership gone as well, or are the schools still owned by the Department?