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- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: 585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the ratio of males to females employed in his Department; the agencies under the remit of his Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52092/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: 594. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of women and men, respectively employed in her Department and the agencies under the remit of her Department in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52051/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: 595. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the various grades in which males and females are employed in her Department and the agencies under the remit of her Department in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52068/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: 596. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the ratio of males to females employed in her Department and the agencies under the remit of her Department in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52085/18]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: I thank Mr. Desmond for his public service and for attending this meeting. He outlined in his presentation a number of interventions designed to assist the Department with budget management and health sector planning, including management data reports, performance profiles, performance accountability framework, a national performance oversight group and so forth. When somebody discovers...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Is that after the fact?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: However, as the information becomes available, the money has been spent.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: That is not always the case in respect of home care packages.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Pardon my chuckling but Mr. Desmond is distinguishing between items such as primary care and home care packages. I am asking who makes that call in the Department of Health. Who decides that the Department must exceed the budget for home care packages because there is critical demand for them? They not only save the State a considerable amount of money but there is an acute need for them,...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Thank God for that. Who makes the decision?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: I accept all that but the decision on approving that entitlement must come across somebody's desk.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Who gives the manager the approval?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: To where would it be elevated?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: What would that be?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: It makes the decision.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: There is no executive in place.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Mr. Desmond made the point that the health sector is particularly complex. The education sector is pretty complex, as is social protection given the range of schemes involved and the variations that occur all the time. I imagine it would be hard to predict the social protection budget at the beginning of the year in terms of the number of people who will be in receipt of disability benefit...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: They are very modest.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: Mr. Desmond would acknowledge that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)
John Lahart: They are nothing like those in the health sector.