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Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: Get over it.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: The Deputy should get on with it.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: The Deputy should do his sums.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: He is making it up.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: There is still no Government in the North.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: This is not the position Fianna Fáil wanted to be in before the 2016 general election, but when Ireland required a stable Government we chose to act, and in so doing changed the direction the country was heading. Every Member in this House seeks to serve the citizens of this country and seeks to improve the quality of life for the public. We cannot allow politics in this country to...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: Enabling people to live in their own home, if they choose to, should be and has to be a core goal. We have worked for an increase in funding for home help and home care packages that will have a real impact on carers. We need to see the Health Service Executive, HSE, service plan realise this. We need to see an increase of up to 1 million in home help hours. We need to see up to 2,000...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: Paid parental leave and subsidy increases must form part of a broader suite of measures, including shared maternity leave, to broaden the capacity of parents to share responsibilities. The additional resources announced are but a drop in the ocean, unfortunately, as well intentioned as they are. The prolonged delays in the roll-out of the affordable childcare scheme, ACS, which seems to be...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: While we were not successful in forming a Government it was crystal clear that the public had soundly rejected Fine Gael’s notion that the recovery was being felt nationally. The public categorically rejected the Tory-style tax cuts for the rich, and it was in this context that Fianna Fáil negotiated the confidence and supply agreement to underpin a new Government. Fianna...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: As has been alluded to, today's budget is the third from this Government. It is the final budget of three provided for in the confidence and supply agreement. Many believed there would only be one and that Fianna Fáil would have used the precarious and perilous state of uncertainty for political gain and that we would have been opportunistic. It could not have been further from the...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: 255. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [40763/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Summer Economic Statement (4 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the workings that reconcile the pre-committed expenditure of €2.3 billion as outlined in table 4 of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's pre-budget report and the pre-committed expenditure of €2.6 billion outlined in table 5 of the same report, specifically the effects of the rolling of capital expenditure over four years; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment with a consultant cardiologist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 7 [40155/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Office of Public Works Projects (2 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the progress on the expanding of the car parking facilities at Clonmacnoise monastic site. [39607/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when an appointment with a consultant cardiologist in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore will be expedited. [39427/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Oct 2018)

Barry Cowen: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if an appointment with a consultant neurosurgeon in Beaumont Hospital will be expedited [39851/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sale of State Assets (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the location the proceeds from the sale of Bord Gáis currently lie in view of the fact that €10 million is allocated per year for a pilot scheme on social housing; the rate of return these proceeds are earning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39276/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2019 (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 20 September 2018, if current spending overruns of €209 million according to the August Fiscal Monitor if maintained to the end of the year will be filled by capital spending underspends of €361 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39273/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2019 (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are capital underspends in Departments at the end of the year if these underspends are automatically carried over to 2019; if not, if that funding will be drawn from the capital funding allocation for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39274/18]