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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that all Government Departments and bodies under their aegis remain within the required expenditure and reform guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11010/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if expenditure and reform principles will continue to remain a feature of Government policies over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11011/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the sectors that have most obediently adhered to expenditure and reform guidelines over the past five years; his plans to ensure reward for such compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11012/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the sectors that have not followed or have breached public expenditure and reform guidelines; the extent to which agreement can be reached with such groups in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11013/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public expenditure and reform will remain a feature of Government in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11014/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which he expects public expenditure constraints and reform policies effective in the context of economic recovery to be used as a basis for prudent economic development in the future; if he expects to implement innovation in this regard in the future to maximise economic benefit; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 153. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the unions that signed up to the various agreements, including Lansdowne Road, will not be penalised as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11015/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which his Department can facilitate capital expenditure under various headings with particular reference to addressing infrastructural deficits, thus generating greater employment and providing a basis for future economic development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11017/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which his Department has received communication from other Departments and bodies or agencies under their aegis seeking expenditure on such issues as the upgrade of motorways, new roadworks, investment in water and other items of infrastructural importance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11018/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Issues (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he and his Department can take steps to minimise the impact of Brexit on the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11019/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Economic Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which those in the public and the private sectors can now benefit from the sacrifices they made in terms of income reduction and longer working hours; the extent to which each section of the economy can expect to be fairly treated in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11020/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public procurement can be utilised to benefit the Exchequer in a meaningful way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11021/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he expects recruitment in specific vital areas of the public sector to become a policy initiative in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11023/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if assurance will be given that an orthopaedic operation on 24 March 2017 will not be postponed in the case of a person (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10782/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if post-operative home help will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10819/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (2 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if dental benefit is available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11005/17]

Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he and his Department continue to address the issue of class sizes and temporary school structures throughout County Kildare and nationwide in respect of primary and post-primary schools; the extent to which he expects class sizes and pupil-teacher ratios to improve, arising from the capital programme while at the same time...

Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: My question relates to the extent to which the Minister and his Department can deal with the overcrowding, class sizes and pupil-teacher ratios, while at the same time meeting the challenges of ongoing demographic factors in Kildare and throughout the country.

Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. I wish to know the extent to which he expects to be in a position to accommodate the needs of pupils with special needs in schools during the course of the period in question and to what extent he expects to see an improvement in the pupil-teacher ratio in line with the reply he has provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Parliament Information Office in Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2017)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome Mr. Temple-Smithson. I congratulate him. He comes at a very important time and juncture in terms of the relationship between the individual member states and the European institutions of the parliament and the Commission. He also comes at a very important time from the point of view of the international image of the EU, where it is going and where it is likely to end up....