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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (25 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the provision of a pension for carers; when she expects these pension entitlements to commence; what the limitations of the scheme will be; how long will a person have to have been a carer; the progress on establishing a register of family carers; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 525. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on radiotherapy services across the country; the number of linear accelerators currently closed; what facilities these are located in; the impact of these closures on cancer treatment services; the number of radiotherapist vacancies nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19027/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 544. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to review and improve the national policy document entitled Safeguarding Vulnerable Persons at Risks of Abuses: National Policy and Procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19115/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the provision of mental health services in CHO9 for a person residing there (details supplied). [19416/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (20 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Ireland intends to sign up to and ratify the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18849/23]

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak in this debate. I support the legislation being brought forward by the Minister of State and commend him on doing so. We should acknowledge that our courts are as integral a part of the governance of this country as our Legislature and Executive are. All three of them are essential for the purpose of ensuring our democracy functions properly....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. Watt is welcome to the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. I fully accept that what Mr. Watt did was motivated by public interest but I hope he will also accept that the questions we are putting to him and the reasons we want to question him are also motivated by public interest. Mr. Watt's timing is quite fortuitous and, as he says, the report only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is Mr. Watt aware of why there was a six-month delay in the publication of the report, which is dated 17 October 2022 and which was not published until 17 April 2023?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am asking if Mr. Watt is aware of the reason why there was a delay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Did Mr. Watt in any way seek to delay its publication?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: When you look at the report it is clear that in February and March 2022 Mr. Watt commenced detailed negotiations with Dr. Holohan about his secondment. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Then it was agreed that Dr. Holohan would go off and speak to the third-level institutions on his own. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Looking back on it, does Mr. Watt accept that it was not appropriate for the person who was seeking the secondment to be involved in the negotiation about the terms of the secondment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is Mr. Watt aware that in Maura Quinn's report, at page 31, she has effectively criticised that? She has said that no one individual should be personally and exclusively involved in any negotiation with third parties which involves the disbursement of State funds in which they have a potential personal interest. Does Mr. Watt disagree with Ms Quinn?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is it not the case that there will be a conflict of interest, however, if a senior civil servant is in negotiations with an intended seconder about the terms of his or her employment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Would they agree the terms? Would they negotiate the terms on behalf of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 27/2021 states that secondments can only be for a maximum of five years, and this one clearly was not to be for that length of time. Was that not taken into account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: What were the other examples of that type of secondment that were more than five years? Can Mr. Watt give us an example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: For more than five years?