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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (31 Jan 2018)

Peter Burke: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and the status of same. [4721/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (6 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Westmeath County Council will be advised of its 2018 homeless provision budget in the context of its role as head local authority for the midlands, that is, counties Westmeath, Longford, Laois and Offaly. [5736/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (7 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 49. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in County Westmeath and the midlands regions under the regional action plan for jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5768/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Data (7 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 70. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs supported by Enterprise Ireland in County Westmeath; the steps being taken to build on this figure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5769/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 73. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of an orthodontic consultant for counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6085/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: I have listened to the discussion this morning. On top of that, we are talking about bringing in RTÉ and all these sectors. I have nothing against bringing in any of these things, but sometimes we need to focus on what our job is on the PAC. There is aggressive tax playing going on in agencies which is fully legal. I remember when the head of the Revenue Commissioners appeared before...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: It has never looked through the eyes of the company. In other words, if someone sets up a company structure with only one client, the idea behind which is to minimise a person's tax liability, the Revenue considers that to be perfectly legal as long as the law is complied with regarding expenses and salaries. What they are doing is perfectly legal. At times we think we should change the law...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: The witnesses can understand why people get frustrated at the level of underspend presented to us, especially when one takes a snapshot of the crisis period we have just come out of. In 2011 the State was spending 50% more than it was taking in, it could not borrow on open markets and gaps in our society became even bigger which the State could not cover. I see the dormant accounts fitting...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: It is €136 million for 2017 and Mr. McCarthy is now being asked to manage a fund that had a value of €259 million at the end of 2016.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Mr. McCarthy's job is to come up with conditions for the allocation of this money and what Departments it should go to, not the management of the funds. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Nevertheless, the Department is responsible for the conditions which facilitate the allocation to different Departments.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Have the staff who were working on the Dormant Account Fund from 2012, in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government as it was then, been transferred to the Department of Community and Rural Development?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Mr. McCarthy cannot answer that very important question. I want to find out where responsibility lies. Very vulnerable people in RAPID areas, children and adolescents who would benefit from counselling, were not getting key intervention because the State could not allocate and spend money on their behalf. I expect Mr. McCarthy to be very clear about the people who worked to allocate this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: They either did or did not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: I know that but I need to know about the people in the headline Department working to put the conditions in place for where this money is being allocated.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: How many people within the Department work to put the conditions together to administer this fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: The principal officer cannot just work on his own.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: There is a gross fund of €259 million and there are three people in a Department putting the conditions together to allocate that to various other Departments.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: The Department underspent its own budget, is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: The Department is now being asked to manage a fund which traditionally has significant underspends and lack of allocations. Would Mr. McCarthy accept that it is failure within the Department?