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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a certain amount of time.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: On the planning issues, one thing we do hear regularly from local authorities is that there is a serious resource issue in local authority planning departments. Many of these planning applications go through those departments. The Minister mentioned that I had picked out particular issues. These are major infrastructural projects that have a very significant effect on people's lives.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Anybody travelling through Dublin will tell you that the transportation system in Dublin is grinding to a halt. In eight years, Madrid was able to build 130 km of underground and yet we have been talking about an underground for 20 years and have not been able to-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister just-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: On another issue, we had the Secretary General of the Minister's Department here last week and, with regard to the waste and bureaucracy that arises in the HSE, I asked whether any comparative analysis had been done with our European counterparts as regards productivity. The Minister mentioned other European countries' delivery of projects and need to fulfil regulations. Has the Minister's...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Workforce planning is a means to ensure that we have the required essential skills. Ireland lost a significant number of people from the construction industry to countries like Australia and Canada during the last crash. We could do with some of these people back now. A campaign to try to bring some of those people home would benefit capital projects in a significant way. On the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: For businesses but not for homeowners.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I submitted a parliamentary question last July on the number of vacant properties the State has. Earlier I mentioned that there are 3,500 vacant local authority homes which would actually accommodate everybody who was in emergency accommodation at the moment. I mentioned how long it is taking to flip those houses around compared to the private sector. The Minister of State would have to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a startling fact. How will the Government inject a level of urgency into bringing those properties back into use so we can create homes?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Diagnoses (22 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of children under the age of 12 years who have been referred for a public psychological assessment for autism. [51308/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Órfhlaith. Go raibh maith ag na finnéithe ar fad as ucht an cur i láthair iontach sin. Bhí sé an-suimiúil. I had a prior engagement to which I had to attend so I apologise for missing a bit at the start of the meeting but I thank the witnesses for the details that have been given. There is a lack of data, North and South, on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (23 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: From my perspective, FDI is typically considered as an interim economic policy. Ideally, countries normally use FDI to get to a certain stage of development, and then start to develop their own indigenous economy, which is obviously far stickier, less mobile and more stable. Obviously, that is the route the economy in the South needs to go on. It is surprising in a way that the North has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commissions of Investigation (23 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been underway; when each will conclude; the cost to date of each; and the estimated cost of each at completion. [44814/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Commissions of Investigation (23 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been underway; when each will conclude; the cost to date of each; and the estimated cost of each at completion. [44814/23]

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis an Teachta Shanahan. I extend my thoughts and prayers to the five-year-old girl who was critically injured in last Thursday’s stabbing attack in Dublin, and to the hero school worker, who was also seriously injured and is in a serious condition in hospital. I commend the bravery of all those who intervened in the knife attack, many of whom are...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith mo thacaíocht a thabhairt don Bhille seo agus gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Matt Shanahan as é a chur os comhair na Dála. Gabhaim buíochas freisin le baill an Ghrúpa Réigiúnach atá ag úsáid a gcuid ama chun é seo a chur os comhair na Dála. I welcome this Bill. I thank Deputy Matt Shannon for putting it before the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Data (28 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 33. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the recent fall in corporation tax revenues has raised challenges in terms of public expenditure for his Department. [52076/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list the occasions over the past twelve months in which Government Departments have requested additional funds from his Department; the purposes of these requests; which ones were granted; and which were refused. [52077/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (28 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a decision on their application for disability allowance. [52180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether a person who applied for disability allowance before Christmas, but will not receive a decision until after Christmas, will be entitled to back payments to the date of application; and whether these back payments will also include the Christmas bonuses, lump sums and fuel allowance entitlements which accompany the...