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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (10 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public procurement competitions that were held in 2021; the number of competitions that received no bidding applicants; the number of Irish language requirements that are part of the contract award criteria and contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7289/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 408. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for speech and language, psychology, dietician and occupational therapies by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7189/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 409. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the scarcity of appointments in early intervention services in respect to speech and language, psychology, dietician and occupational therapies in Connemara; the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to further expand early intervention teams in schools over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: An increase of 162% seems quite significant.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I imagine we are all in agreement that conversations involving people from all backgrounds constitute the way forward. This is something on which I have engaged. I have taken part in the type of weekend meetings the Taoiseach described. It is very important to have engagement and to speak to people from different backgrounds who have different points of view and different lived realities....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I have a very brief question on my understanding of the Taoiseach's perspective. For the Taoiseach, is it about the timing of a national citizens' assembly rather than a national citizens' assembly in general?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes it does. I thank the Taoiseach.

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: It is important to note that this Bill came about not because of a desire necessarily to improve our existing protected disclosures regime and it was not inspired by the need to give further protections to the many whistleblowers whose concerns have been raised in this Chamber or to set a new standard in whistleblowing protection. The reason the Bill is before us today is to satisfy the...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Would it help if I spoke again?

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I so move.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: This time last month The Connacht Tribunecarried a story that reported that a vulture fund - not just any vulture fund but the country's largest - was circling above my home county of Galway. The article stated that IRES REIT was "planning to roll out its highly profitable ‘buy-to-let’ model – a move that will drive up rents and house prices". This news was not welcomed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 623. To ask the Minister for Health the stage the approval process is at for the new emergency department for Galway University Hospital; and the delays that have arisen to date. [7986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 298. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that Ireland has not requested pre-financing from the Recovery and Resilience Fund. [8123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of the bodies that will be migrating to shared financial services in 2022, in tabular form (details supplied); the date they are expected to migrate; if there is a service level agreement now in place; and the cost of bringing each of these to shared financial services. [7980/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that Ireland has not yet submitted a payment request from the Recovery and Resilience Fund. [8124/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 8 February 2022, the dates that the buildings and sites mentioned came into the possession of the OPW; the size of each site; and the estimated value of each in tabular form. [8125/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 8 February 2022, the date that the sites in County Galway are to be transferred in tabular form. [8126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 8 February 2022, the way the value and price is reflected in the moving of these assets between the accounts of two public bodies for those properties identified for intra state transfer; if money changes hands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8213/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 8 February 2022, the costs that have been incurred from dereliction, defects or otherwise and the amount spent on maintenance and remediation for those Garda stations that have been idle in 2012 and 2013, in tabular form. [8214/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 8 February 2022, if 50% of the proceeds must be returned to his Department as part of general taxation for those properties identified as for disposal in cases in which the proceeds from these sales are not recommitted within the same accounting year into another OPW development project;...