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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Will the Taoiseach explain why it has risen by such a significant percentage?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: If the Taoiseach provides that additional detail, we will see how that relates to pre-Covid times.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I wish to move on to Vote 2, Department of the Taoiseach. This relates to the Civil Service accountability board, which is chaired by the Taoiseach. Will he clarify how many meetings he had last year?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Not at all?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: The reason I ask is because I was looking for the minutes of the meetings. I could only find minutes of the meetings in 2016. Has the Civil Service accountability board met since then? This committee and the Committee of Public Accounts produced the Report on the Processes and Procedures Applying to the Appointment of Senior Executives in the Public Service. Has the board met since 2016?...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes, he has come before the committee. The Taoiseach is before us today and as he is the chair of the Civil Service accountability board, I thought it was important to ask him about that. However, he said that the board has not met since 2016. Some €15 million was spent on Covid-19 communications. We do not have a full figure-breakdown of the number of public communication...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I understand that procurement can work in that way. I was not questioning that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: My final question is about the citizens' assemblies. In the Taoiseach's opening remarks, he spoke of his intention to have a citizens' assembly on drugs, and he mentioned two other citizens' assemblies. Has he given further thought to the establishment of a national citizens' assembly on the constitutional future of this island, in terms of the shared island unit etc. and the citizens' assembly?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: On the future-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: An increase of 162% seems quite significant.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I imagine we are all in agreement that conversations involving people from all backgrounds constitute the way forward. This is something on which I have engaged. I have taken part in the type of weekend meetings the Taoiseach described. It is very important to have engagement and to speak to people from different backgrounds who have different points of view and different lived realities....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I have a very brief question on my understanding of the Taoiseach's perspective. For the Taoiseach, is it about the timing of a national citizens' assembly rather than a national citizens' assembly in general?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Yes it does. I thank the Taoiseach.

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: I would like to thank my colleague, Deputy Clarke, for bringing forward this motion in support of the women of honour. We fully support their call for a full statutory inquiry. We commend their courage and bravery. We believe them and we will continue to stand with them. I have no doubt of the massive toll this has taken on them. Like many whistleblowers, they went through an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Rents continue to rise in Galway city with a report recently stating that they rose by 8%. Regularly there are no houses to rent available in the city under the housing assistance payment, HAP, limits, pushing people into homeless, which rose by 42% in Galway over the last 12 months. As a measure to prevent a continued rise in homelessness, would the Taoiseach consider giving Galway HAP the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (8 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schemes under which funding is available for the development of walkways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6674/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide full list of properties which are vacant and are either owned or being rented by the Office of Public Works by county; the amount of rent paid to date on those vacant rented properties in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6739/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (8 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: 378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a United States of America military aircraft (details supplied) was authorised to carry munitions or other military equipment or armed United States soldiers through Shannon Airport on 30 January 2022 on its way to the Middle East; if searches or an investigation were carried out to establish if the aircraft was in compliance with...

Freedom of Information Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Can I speak as well?

Freedom of Information Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Feb 2022)

Mairéad Farrell: Right.