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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) states that many funded nursing vacancies arising from staff retiring, leaving or going on maternity leave are remaining unfilled due to the recruitment freeze and that this happening when there is unprecedented demand on our health services, meaning that various departments and community services are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I will be happy to get the Minister's answer on this question so I will skip my 30-second introduction.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I want to make sure I am addressing the correct question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It is Deputy Paul Murphy's question on nursing vacancies.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I am taking his question as well, just to make things more complicated.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The number of nurses in our health service has been increasing dramatically in the lifetime of this Government. Since January 2020, right across the health service we have increased the number by almost 29,000 whole-time equivalents. It really has been a huge increase. Deputy Murphy asked specifically about nurses and midwifery. In the lifetime of this Government, the nursing and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: I welcome the witnesses. I want to follow up on some of the questions on the national children's science centre. What has happened with that project is a scandal in many regards. It is up there with the MetroLink and the national children's hospital. After 26 years and millions of euro spent, we have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than arbitration and legal expenses. There are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Mr. Conlon made reference earlier to getting sight of a business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. Mr. Conlon also said that, so far, there is an exposure of approximately €1.5 million to the OPW.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Does that figure include legal expenditure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Regarding the exposure from the arbitration, how much has been set aside to cover legal costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Mr. Conlon has no indication of the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: It will be extremely costly. Is there no provision put aside to cover legal costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: We are looking at €1.5 million plus legal costs before a sod has been turned. I have information to hand suggesting that Irish Children's Museum Limited, ICML, which is centrally involved in this project, has had access to considerable State funding, grants, etc. to get to this point, from numerous Departments. The information I have is that it has received in and around €5...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: I will ask that question of her.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. No business case whatsoever.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: That is with probably several million in expenditure. That is extraordinary in anyone's estimation. I move to site identification, the whole process around that and the public consultation piece, or lack thereof, around identifying the site. How was the site identified in the first instance? What involvement did the OPW have in that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay, and what about public consultation around that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Possibly because it is a public space and would be handed over to a private entity to operate.