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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 314. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can have treatment at the ophthalmology clinic in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54275/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 315. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can have treatment at the ophthalmology clinic in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54276/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You must have missed "Prime Time".

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I appreciate his response and that he will give a more comprehensive response at a later stage. I raised this issue because William is in a different place since 2016. He now lives happily with his son and daughter in Donegal on a permanent basis. The impact this has had on all three of them has been immeasurable. William wants to go public with his experience. He...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I raise an issue that is very personal to a constituent of mine named William Porter, who was falsely accused of abusing both his son and daughter. These accusations destroyed his life. His family has suffered hugely, with William himself developing significant mental and physical health problems as a result of the stress this has caused. It now seems incredible that these false claims...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: They have been clarified in the courts, as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will hear in a second. The false recording of a confession was not rectified for two years afterwards. It was two years before William found out, through a freedom of information request, that the fabricated confession by him was on his file. In 2014, the Garda contacted William to explain that during one of the rare...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any discretion can be shown for a leaving certificate student in Donegal (details supplied) to have an exemption in 2024 from the orals and practicals they completed in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53994/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options that are available for disabled people who cannot afford adaptions and are slightly over the means test threshold, and therefore are not entitled to have it paid for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54030/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made for a carer’s benefit review (details supplied); if any outstanding documentation is required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53923/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome our guests to the committee. I only have a couple of questions because previous speakers have gone through a lot and been quite thorough. I appreciate the witnesses' responses. Perhaps they could talk about lowballing or abnormally low tenders. They will be aware that my party introduced legislation, the Regulation of Tenderers Bill, which sought to regulate abnormally low...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Is Ms Stewart familiar with the regulations or methodology used in the North? Does she believe they would be of benefit here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. O'Brien for his response. Obviously a methodology was used in another European member state that looked at the issue of lowballing. Is that something the OGP would be in favour of? Mr. O'Brien mentioned the definition but is that something that the OGP thinks is not required here or something that could be considered in this State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Do we exclude because they are abnormally low at the minute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Have we ever done so? That is the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps Mr. O'Brien could check on that and come back to the committee on it. Is he saying we have the power to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The EU directive on public procurement allows for the disqualification from future contracts of economic operators that have displayed repeated and persistent failings over the course of previous public procurement contracts. How many times has this clause been actioned to disqualify economic operators from future public contracts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Taking money off would be normal. There would be numerous State contracts where money would be taken off because of some failings in a contract. From the information available at the minute or to his knowledge, Mr. O'Brien cannot say whether we have ever disqualified an abnormally low bid, and also that we have never actually used a clause to actually ban somebody from future public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: My next question is for the CCPC. I will come back later to the OGP. It has been mentioned that a system of screening for bid rigging has been applied in a number of jurisdictions; Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands were mentioned. In December 2020 the Hamilton review group made recommendations including legislation to enable the collection, collation and analysis of all public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Preventing Bid Rigging in the Public Procurement Process: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Being a priority for the Oireachtas in 2024 probably means that legislation is likely. Even if it was a priority, it is likely to be enacted in 2025 which would be five years after the review. Is there a serious issue in terms of Departments not taking these matters seriously? This same Hamilton review called for an anti-fraud strategy in the Department of Justice, but four years on we...