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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (10 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 407. To ask the Minister for Health when FreeStyle Libre will be made available on the GMS and long-term illness card; if that availability will not be restricted only to persons with type 1 diabetes but will be made available to all persons on multi-daily insulin injections based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42206/17]

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Not the way we would expect.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I will add my voice. Everyone else spoke so I suppose I should say a few words. I do not know if there is any use in having any more witnesses in here because I think we have gone nearly as far as we will go. As the previous speaker said, if we bring in further witnesses, will they stall and will they just give us the same rhetoric and the same answers? We all know what happened in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: We should scrutinise it all.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, and Citizens Information under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General and public money? I ask this because there are proposals by the organisations to change the procedural governance of the system they have in place. It is mostly on a county basis or an individual basis currently and now they are talking about having eight...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Would we have a role to play in the internal changes proposed? Do we have any oversight to ensure that the system is correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I ask that this be added to the agenda.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I compliment IDA Ireland on its work in foreign direct investment. In 2016 there were 19,000 jobs created, with a net gain of 12,000. I want to ask about the 7,000 jobs that must have been lost. We are coming out of a recession now and the country is going better. How does this figure compare with the recession years of 2012 to 2014? Why are we losing 7,000 jobs? Where did we lose them...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is three times the current figure.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: In what field were the 7,000 jobs, mainly?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: If a company goes into liquidation, closes down or whatever, and there are grant aid arrangements or similar, does IDA Ireland recover that? Is it on a percentage basis per annum? If a company has a ten-year programme but goes bust after five years, is that money lost to IDA Ireland? I presume the next instalment would not be paid as the company would be gone.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: On the property portfolio that is left, is IDA Ireland mostly renting the properties or does it sell the properties to companies that are coming here? Do they buy the properties outright or is the property leased? If the company goes into liquidation, what happens the properties? Who owns them afterwards?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does IDA Ireland get the property back? Say if the company has the property bought, does it sell it or does the property revert back to IDA Ireland? Has IDA Ireland a hold on such property?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Of course, we are all local. I am from the south east, like Deputy Cullinane. I am from Kilkenny and he is from Waterford. We work together. We have a great facility in Belview Port, which I know is high in IDA Ireland's ranking. With Brexit coming and so on, the future of Belview Port looks rosy. We have land and Kilkenny County Council is on board. We have the services there, we have...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: So we are losing out in the south east because we do not have those graduates being educated in the region.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: We can all nitpick about business but counties Kilkenny and Carlow seem to be behind in terms of jobs created. Talking personally, in the figures I see 802 for Carlow and 762 for Kilkenny. Meanwhile Tipperary has 3,040, Waterford has 6,000 - which I do not begrudge them - and Wexford has 2,600. We seem to be the poor relation there. Is there any reason for that? Have we landbanks in...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I was going to ask about that. Have we any advanced technology buildings in Carlow-Kilkenny? I want to ask Ms Buckley about Kilkenny too because that it where I am from.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Dublin is overheating and accommodation or housing has been mentioned already. Will IDA Ireland be looking more closely at the south east, which is only an hour and half down the motorway? As I stated, we have connectivity so will IDA Ireland look to bring more people out of Dublin so as to have a balanced regional development? We have the infrastructure in place.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Bobby Aylward: The Chairman knew that.