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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Minister of State knows that is not the case.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The people have been waiting since 2012 and will be waiting until 2027.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The people have been waiting since 2012 and will be waiting until 2027.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is completely disingenuous.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The other Deputy took the time when he was not supposed to.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is too serious a matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: For God's sake.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Biodiversity is compatible with what needs to be done here. Stop playing games with people. Stop it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wanted to come in on that because there seems some kind of a miscommunication. As was rightly said by Deputy Stanton, there was an underspend in the Department of Transport, and yet projects like the N17 have been put on hold. They are absolutely vital to the economic development of the areas they serve. What is going on there? There are mixed messages coming, that in one sense they are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and I understand that. We had issues earlier this year, however, with capital projects in education where the Government was forced to row back on the initial plans and to scrap a number of projects because the expenditure ceiling had been reached in inflation. This caused very significant distress to schools and to their communities who in many instances had been...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the estimated level of capital expenditure as a percentage of GNI* for 2023 and 2024 respectively; how this compares with estimates in the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47039/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister outline the estimated level of capital expenditure as a percentage of GNI* for 2023 and 2024 respectively and how this compares with estimates in the national development plan, NDP? The latter is a multi-annual plan and, as such, the Minister will agree that inflation, economic growth and GDP should be taken into account. It is important that we have effective and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister has said, the NDP was reviewed and the targets for capital investment as a percentage of GNI* were set in 2021. The revised NDP also set out departmental capital ceilings for 2025. In budget 2024, we saw the Government stay within those NDP ceilings. The 2021 targets set for 2023 and 2024 were 4.9% and 5.1% respectively, as the Minister has said. The Department now...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details on the level of engagement between the Office of Government Procurement and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, in respect of public procurement bid-rigging and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47038/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could the Minister outline the level of engagement between the Office of Government Procurement and the CCPC regarding public procurement bid-rigging? The CCPC is the State body responsible for the enforcement of competition law. One of the areas most at risk from anti-competitive behaviour is public procurement, particularly with regard to large construction contracts that involve...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In July 2022, six Spanish construction firms were fined €200 million by the Spanish regulator for colluding on bids for public construction contracts. The Spanish state has banned these companies from participating in the public procurement process. Five of those Spanish companies have won public construction contracts in Ireland. What they did was essentially was agree who would...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have. I will not read out the names here today. I will raise it with the CCPC because I have been looking at some patterns involving contracts that have been awarded here that warrant further investigation and explanation. I will not identify the companies, even though I have the details here. I cannot see how companies that were involved in bid-rigging in Spain and were fined for doing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the process for determining the appropriate amount of funding under existing service levels, ELS, as a whole and for individual Departments, including where budget deficits exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47037/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would like the Minister to outline the necessary funding to maintain ELS to the assigned Departments, how it is determined and how much is needed for standstill costs, namely, those relating to demographics, inflation and other pressures. This is particularly important following the Government's decision to allocate far less to health to meet standstill costs than what seems was necessary.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ELS are extremely important. Let us be clear, we are talking here about the amount of money a Department needs to continue to provide services at the same level. If a Department is given the correct amount of money, it can stand still. Services will be maintained. If, however, a Department is not given enough money, one of two things will happen- either there will be cuts or the...