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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the Minister and her officials before the committee. What appears to be the most significant part of the Supplementary Estimates is the significant additional capital allocation of €517 million in respect of the schools building programme. I very much welcome the significant activity on the part of the programme, not just in my constituency but throughout the country. The...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: How is the school building unit doing in terms of projects coming in on time and on budget? Sometimes we only hear of capital developments by the State that do not come in on time and on budget, but am I correct in saying very many of them do come in on time and on budget?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Minister mentioned already the provision of accommodation for children with special educational needs. I think I am right in saying it is now the case that any new schools being developed will automatically have special educational needs classrooms.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: What is the Department's role in trying to facilitate and assist schools that have been there for a longer time and may have difficulty in identifying space for SEN classrooms?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: This is not a question but a comment. I am not sure whether the Minister has had an opportunity yet to look at the new school on Harcourt Terrace. Harcourt Terrace Educate Together National School is an absolutely fantastic building. I commend the planning and building unit on it and hope to see the Minister out there shortly so she can see the benefit of the good work being done by her...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 91. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details of the funding allocated to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution in Budgets 2015 to 2025. [42257/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to 2030. [42717/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to 2030. [42712/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide first and full-year costs for the free public transport scheme to children aged 15 and under. [42538/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to 2030....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance the full year cost of reducing capital gains tax to 30%, 28% and to 25%. [42501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of exempting the carer’s allowance from tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42618/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to increasing tax relief on medical expenses currently set at the standard rate of tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42619/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first- and full-year cost of changing the treatment of payments to craft apprentices by education and training boards so that they are not eligible for income tax, PRSI and the universal social charge. [42701/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to 2030. [42716/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the spending on constructing and refurbishing Garda stations and offices in each year between 2016 and 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42526/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the details of costings provided to his Department, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to 2030. [42722/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 283. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to...