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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: That is my point. These are complex Departments with complex budgets and challenges. Mr. Desmond has acknowledged that the overruns in those Departments are not as significant as in the health sector, so we will park that. What is it about health that makes the overruns in that Department so large? I am asking that as a public representative. To follow on from what my colleagues have...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Can Mr. Desmond back that statement up with evidence? I will accept it if he can do so. Is the health budget more challenging and complex than the budgets that have to be managed in the Departments of Education and Skills and Employment Affairs and Social Protection or is Mr. Desmond surmising that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: No, but Mr. Desmond is suggesting that the complexity of these services makes the budget a little more challenging than, say, in education and social protection. That is my point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: However, Mr. Desmond did comment on them when he said the Department of Health has more complex challenges than other Departments. I have brought him back to the point where he does not know that for sure and is surmising that it may be the case. I thank the Chairman for the latitude I have been given. We would have always thought that the big supplementary budgets for health are caused...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: No, the figure is 5% right across the system. There is not a particular spike, as I understand it, in the allocation to the State Claims agency. There is an average of 5% right across the whole sector.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: The increase is spread right across..

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Health Budget and Expenditure Management: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: It would be great if Mr. Desmond could forward that information to us. I thank him for coming in today. I appreciate it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the delay between the implementation of the BusConnects network redesign and the planned roll out of the new core bus corridors and lanes. [52436/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I thank the Acting Chairman for the riding instruction. What are the Minister's views on the delay between BusConnects phase 2, which relates to the bus spines and new corridors that we, on this side of the House, strongly support, and the implementation of phase 1, which relates to the network changes?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I know the Minister supports this, as do we on this side of the House. Phase 2 puts in place the infrastructure. We believe it makes more sense to implement phase 1 first, to put in place the corridors, and then change the network. According to a briefing we received last week by the NTA and Dublin Bus, some of these corridors will not be in place until 2027, the date for the construction...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: That is the point - it is a long process. I would love if the Minster devoted the same energy as he does to traffic safety, which is laudable, into a dynamic intervention into this. People cannot be encouraged or expected to switch from cars to buses if the bus infrastructure is not in place. This speaks to the matter that arises time and again. I raised it yesterday with respect to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of anti-social behaviour incidents that have been reported on Luas lines to date in 2018. [52391/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I thank Deputy Coppinger for allowing me to speak first. Many of the points I propose to make today I made already to the NTA when we met it as a group, but I want to put them on the public record. The NTA has contracted out 10% of services. I disagree with Deputy Ellis that that percentage will increase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: The NTA and my colleagues know that my party are champions of Dublin Bus and public representatives are sometimes afraid to call out its failings. Employees of Go-Ahead are also workers. There are two Go-Ahead routes operating in my own area. It is still at an early phase and if, after six months, there are still issues, they should be raised then. I have a problem with the Minister's...

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I thank my colleague, Deputy Troy, for raising this issue. I thank those in the Gallery for their patience. There are a number of issues but I will frame my short contribution around several key points. Clearly cycling's time has come. There has never been such an appetite or enthusiasm for cycling and such a growth in cycling and the use of bicycles in Ireland. I am particularly...

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: As Deputy Sherlock used all of his time and more, poor Deputy Fitzmaurice has been excluded. As I know that would not be the desire of the House, if it is its wish, he can have a two-minute slot. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Will the Minister of State press the amendment?

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: In accordance with Standing Order 70(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 17 January 2019. As a final piece of business, I thank the Deputies, the Minister of State and the Minister. I also thank my colleagues and all the staff of the Houses for all their work and efforts in this term. I thank the people in the Gallery for visiting. I wish all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Can one of the witnesses name the utilities the CRU regulates?