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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: On public procurement and bidding for Government contracts, do we adequately protect the system, in other words, the Government and the State, from being taken to the fair by wealthy and well-organised financial conglomerates, which in some cases could impact on the housing market? Have we put in place measures to ensure we are protected in those circumstances? I also wish to ask about...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chair. I welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the meeting. I compliment the OPW on the things to be complimented on and will make further comment on the things not to be complimented on, whatever they might be. In the first instance, the work of OPW in the management of public buildings, estates and arterial drainage all over the country is exemplary, with one...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The OPW made the mistake originally.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State did not interrupt, but I want to point this out.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I will not interrupt anymore. The OPW and the local authority said there is an alternative entrance. There is not an alternative entrance, and that is crucial.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It is impractical.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: If the Minister of State holds that point of view, there is no good in me staying here.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: That was 200 years ago.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The clock still ticks.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy should not worry about the civil war.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Chair, I echo his views and remarks and I acknowledge the benefits of North-South co-operation. Such co-operation is equally beneficial to patients on both sides of the Border. Everyone benefits from it. I offer my congratulations to all involved. I congratulate the Minister on the delivery of health services over the past two or three very trying years. In what were very...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: May I ask another question?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Can the Minister circumnavigate that?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: A special appeal should be made to the staff who are not providing the information required, and that appeal should be made on the basis of the vulnerability of the patients who need the services available through CAMHS as a matter of extreme urgency and have never had the services for some years. I mention that particularly. I should not fail to mention the passing of Dr. Ivor Browne,...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I have a final question but I will come back in on it at a later stage.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It will be short this time. The point I wanted to make, when the Minister of State was also present, relates to the importance of dealing with eating disorders in the CAMHS system. There are very serious deficiencies in the degree to which patients are dealt with and put on whatever medication is necessary. One of the problems that comes up again and again is that the patient does not...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: He was going blind and there was not time. That was unfortunately-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I will.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Do not forget about hospital misadventures and medical card patients.