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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: We are back in public session. Deputy Boyd Barrett was in full flight asking questions when we suspended. We did not intend to stay away for that long. It was an indistinct vote. Anyway, we will proceed. The Minister was in possession when we suspended.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Okay. I call Deputy Cullinane.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Before the Minister answers I should point out, as I did previously at one of these meetings, that I am in the habit of putting in parliamentary questions immediately after the budget for as far back as I can remember, maybe 20 years, on the basis that every Department - some Departments to a greater extent than others - allegedly had insufficient funding and we had to have Supplementary...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That will be determined-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Let me finish.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That is to be determined by the Department seeking the funding. I would strongly urge that that be done in a more methodical fashion in the future, or at any time, because it is important to know. The Department, be that the Department of Finance or the Department of public expenditure or whatever the case may be, needs to have time to deal with the overall budgetary situation as well. I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The facts as opposed to fiction. It is not always the same.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: One voice. The Deputy has had a good innings.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: No. We have finished now. There is a very important issue coming up. I have not had anything to eat today and I hope to get to it before the House closes. I thank-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will the Minister finalise this?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That concludes this session. I thank the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and his staff for attending, the officials from this side of the House, and the committee members for their input. The meeting is adjourned until Wednesday, 13 December. We can go into battle once more.

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

Bernard Durkan: 116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) would have enough contributions to enable her to qualify for a State pension or a form of payment from her Department following recent changes and updates in this area with respect to long-term carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54055/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the visa applications for the family of a person (details supplied) are expected to be finalised; if all efforts will be made to process this visa as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54053/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determining an application for naturalisation (details supplied); when the application will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54069/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when appropriate supports will be provided to the son of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54050/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when crucial supports and interventions will be provided for the daughter of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54089/23]

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

Bernard Durkan: Have there been many occasions on which this particular activity was detected in the last year or two?

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

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

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

Bernard Durkan: Sometimes people who see themselves as victims of abnormally low or high bids decide to submit a bid on the extreme of one side or the other in order to see what the outcome will be. Has Ms Stewart detected any of that?

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

Bernard Durkan: I will explain the kind of thing I am talking about. I have often heard complaints from people who have bid to supply particular services or whatever and have never been successful. They complain they can never get through the bidding system successfully. They then try to discover what is going on by putting in a bid that is either extraordinarily high or low to try to break the system....