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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Services (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 384. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s total spend on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if higher numbers of vaccines will be allocated to local general practitioners in rural areas to facilitate the vaccination of persons who cannot travel to vaccination centres given new data in relation to vaccines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29137/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe. I apologise for being a bit late coming to the meeting because of another commitment. I hope I will not go back over what other members raised but the Chairman might let me know if I do. Is there any projection at this point as to what capital carry-over for 2021 could be? If so, based on current trends, which Departments are likely to have...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Obviously, we all hope there will be no capital carry-overs but there are a few issues. The phase 1 report on the national development plan states that we need to be cognisant of supply-side capacity constraints and that the public sector has a limited capacity to deliver investment in any given year, regardless of how much funding is made available, which is concerning. The Minister,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: That is interesting. We have heard for some time that there is an issue with the supply side. Under the prevailing conditions, the State procures for capital works mainly via private developers. Senior officials in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment recently stated that bid-rigging has enabled companies to extract a higher price for work, given that rival bidders that had...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: That is fair enough. Following on from all that, there is a long-held view that in a situation where there is a market failure such that the market is unable to meet what is needed, the State must step in and help with a solution and that this is not only acceptable but often necessary. Would the officials accept that view?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Mr. Downes. On the capacity constraints, not so long ago we had the OECD before this committee as well as representatives from the Think-tank for Action on Social Change, TASC. I asked them for their views on the role of State-owned enterprises and correcting market failures and cited the example of housing in the context of an area in which a State-owned enterprise could play a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Ms Costello. To make my point a little clearer, we are seeing concerns there is going to be capital carry-over because the concern is the private sector cannot meet the demand or be able to actually use all that money and build all the different projects. I could have said that in a much more fluid way but my question was what would be the view on having a State-owned enterprise...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I thank Ms Costello. As we have an unemployment rate of 16%, we must deal with that as well as trying to meet what we want to spend and the infrastructural deficit and all that. We should be looking at seeing whether there is some other way where the State intervenes more to try to deal with that variety of issues because we know how important the capital spend will be in dealing with the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: On the National Training Fund, the money seems to have been largely invested in Exchequer notes. Is there a problem with the sound? I am hearing a lot of feedback.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: The money seems to have been largely invested in Exchequer notes at zero percent, rather than being used to invest in training and education. The money seems to be used to provide interest-free loans to the Exchequer rather than for the purpose of training and education. What is the rationale for this? If there is an issue with the sound, the officials can respond in writing.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of increasing the reckonable income threshold for entitlement to student universal support Ireland allowance by 1%, 5% and 10% in regard of 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% and special rates, respectively. [35220/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of increasing the reckonable income threshold for entitlement to student universal support Ireland allowance by 10% in regard of 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% and special rates respectively and subsequently increasing maintenance payment rates by 10%; and the estimated number of new students who would be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda Commissioner advised her of the true extent of the failure to respond to the 999 calls placed by members of the public which were recorded on the command and control systems in view of media reports in November 2020 that indicated that a significant number of 999 calls were not responded to. [35048/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the report from the Garda Commissioner to her in relation to a significant number of 999 calls that were not responded to by An Garda Síochána as reported in the media in November 2020 was made pursuant to the provisions of section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005. [35049/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: AIB (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Dr. Hunt cannot give me the details in that regard. I note that he has said it is very competitive in the North and that he answered Deputy Jim O'Callaghan by saying it is very competitive in the South, so I assume he is saying that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: AIB (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Dr. Hunt may have already answered this next question for Deputy Durkan. In Britain AIB is currently in non-binding discussions with suitors to purchase the commercial loan book. Will Dr. Hunt confirm that the employees on this loan book will be protected by transfer of undertakings, TUPE, legislation? If I am correct, I believe that Dr. Hunt said he answered this for Deputy Durkan but I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: AIB (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: The witness stated that AIB is a community bank and is committed to local businesses. Dr. Hunt mentioned earlier the move away from bricks and mortar. I am aware that Dr Hunt has said he cannot confirm plans with regard to the North, but given the plans that are there and the assertion that AIB is committed to the community, if there were wide scale closures across all jurisdictions surely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: AIB (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Apologies, what was the timeframe there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: AIB (30 Jun 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: My final question is about the announcement of the closure of another head office building in Dublin over the past few months. It was stated that the bank would be more reliant on the use of home working into the future. I have worked in banks myself and the different banks I worked in are now seeing the same shift. Obviously there will be massive savings for the bank around property costs...