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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the average annual operational cost of a filled acute bed in a public hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39229/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the average annual operational cost of a filled palliative care bed in a public hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39230/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning guidelines account for future coastal erosion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39242/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning guidelines account for the likely impacts of climate change on coastline and weather patterns here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39243/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Sale of State Assets (27 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government 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. [39275/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: I return to the issue of health to ensure we have absolute certainty on the matter. The Minister indicated it will be a week before he can make a final decision on the implications of an overrun based on the information that will emanate at that time. He stated that, based on previous years, the overrun in health spending could be between €500 million and €600 million and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: I asked the Minister about the health overrun, and his assertion that the €800 million available to him in the budget would be cushioned by receipts in tax in excess of what was expected and underspends by some Departments. I asked for the figures in this regard.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: Sorry. I asked about the underspends.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: I wish to stay on the health figure. Nothing disappoints people more than hearing of such a large overrun in the Department of Health and they do not see it on the ground, especially when they are part of the unfortunate queues in waiting lists, home help hours and the delivery of other HSE services. Let us consider the recent history of this. Last year, for example, how much extra funding...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: I know that. How much did he seek from his line Minister?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: Is it not widely known that Mr. O'Brien would have sought it from the Department of Health, which in turn would have sought it from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which in turn may have sought it from current underspends to meet the gap that this year was €800 million?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: I greatly respect that and I understand the responsibility the Minister has. The responsibility comes with the pleasure of office and the perks that go with it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: We are glad to be able to accommodate the Minister insofar as we can. Having said that, something has emerged over recent years that appears to allow us all to believe that it is normal for there to be an overspend in the Department of Health of €600 million or €700 million. It is, unfortunately, not very normal for the public. The public does not see that spend on the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: Okay. I just hope that shortly will come the day when the Department, the HSE and the Minister can come to an agreement on a figure that is a lot closer to each other's figure than that currently or in recent years. On the national development plan and the additional €1.5 billion next year, can the Minister make available to the committee the various allocations for Departments in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services Provision (25 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated average cost per patient per year of caring for a patient in a section 39 hospice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38288/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (25 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the section 39 organisations and the amount contributed to them per year by the HSE since 2008 to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38289/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (25 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of restoring pay to section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38290/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (20 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: I have a series of questions to put to the Minister on foot of his recommendation to the committee. Why does the new Ireland-Ghana tax treaty contain none of the provisions against treaty abuse agreed in 2015 by the OECD member states, including Ireland, which Ireland has committed to implementing? In 2017, the finance ministry promised that Ireland would invite tax treaty partners that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (20 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: Was it an oral request?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Agreements: Motions (20 Sep 2018)

Barry Cowen: Why does the treaty not permit Ghana to tax capital gains from sales of shares in Irish holding companies deriving their value from movable assets in Ghana, as the UN tax committee and IMF have both recommended? In other words, if the UN and IMF have recommended that be the case, why is it not included, or referred to in this treaty?