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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: It is fair enough that Ms Stewart may not have the exact information. However, is it in that ballpark or is it in the low teens? The Department is saying the health Vote's compliance rate with central procurement solutions is at best 50% to 60%, which means that nearly half of all procurement is non-compliant. Is it in that ballpark?

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 statement from the senior official to the Minister referred to the compliance rate with central procurement solutions. Therefore, it is not all solutions but central procurement in which the Office of Government Procurement has a direct involvement. Is it in that ballpark? Is the health vote non-compliant by approximately 40% to 50%?

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: If it is there or thereabouts, what has the Office of Government Procurement being doing in recent years to make sure that nearly half the health Vote central procurement is compliant with the processes that have been agreed?

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: To assist the committee, which oversees the OGP, can the office provide the committee with the top 20 procurement contracts or solutions by value that were not compliant so far this year? The office can anonymise whatever needs to be anonymised in terms of the services that were provided, who the service was provided to and who provided the service or whatever. The information will help the...

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: That is very helpful for our understanding on this end. I thank Ms Stewart. I thank the OGP and CCPC for the valuable work they do.

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Increasing rents.

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: How high will rents go before you recognise your mistake here?

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What about 20%?

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Would rents going up by 20% be okay for you?

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Go on. I am just asking a rational question. What about 15% or 20%? What about 25%? Cuckoo land.

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You have set a new record and you do not care.

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The worst thing is you do not care.

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Caithfidh an tuairisc a tháinig amach ón mBord um Thionóntachtaí Cónaithe an tseachtain seo caite a bheith mar phointe ag a n-amharcann an Rialtas ar cad é atá ag tarlú ó thaobh iad sin atá ag díol cíosa sa Stát seo. Chímid ó na figiúirí a tháinig amach go bhfuil cíosanna ag dul suas 12% in aghaidh...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is not a point of order.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí eolas ar íocaíochtaí do na mná tí. [53574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Toghcháin d'Údarás na Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 98. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an míneoidh sí cén uair a bheas na toghcháin chun bord Údarás na Gaeltachta ann. [53573/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of unclaimed tax, through the Revenue Commissioners for overpaid tax; the number of persons to whom this applies, for each of the years 2016 to 2022, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53838/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he has held with retail banks, regarding the mortgage treatment of homes affected by defective blocks or their status following remediation, in each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively. [53850/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Online Safety (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he or officials from his Department have held with companies (details supplied) regarding the fraudulent content with respect to financial fraud and scams on their platforms in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively. [53852/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm or clarify whether, following remediation as prescribed by the Housing Agency under the defective blocks grant scheme, that properties remediated will be fully mortgageable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53836/23]