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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: That is costing us €24 million per annum. In 2020 it cost us €24 million. I presume that figure has now gone up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: What is involved in those capital works? What changes must be made that are costing that kind of money?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: What is the total staff number in Oberstown to serve 46 children at any one time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Given the kind of money we are talking about, which is now €27 million per annum in real terms, the cost per individual is extremely high. Has the Department looked at whether there are better ways to try to assist people who are going down the wrong road and who eventually end up in some place like Oberstown? Could more expenditure be put into those areas before a person ends up in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Looking at the project, has any research been done? Taking a group of 40 people who may have been there five years ago, has anybody analysed where those individuals may be now? That would be a true reflection of whether the project is working.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Is it worth doing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. McCarthy might revert to the committee on the matter. I remember research being done on the projects with which I was involved. For example, we found that five years after we had these people in training, more than 70% were in full-time employment. I am concerned about whether we should be doing research in respect of these projects in order to see where we can provide improvements and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: If we are spending that kind of money, is it not also important to research to see whether the system is working?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I will move to the question of Ukrainian refugees and, specifically, their being allocated houses or accommodation in circumstances where people have volunteered to provide such houses or accommodation. Is the Department involved with that? I have received a huge number of complaints from people who volunteered to take in refugees more four months ago but who have heard nothing since. What...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: People who have come to me are saying they have registered but have not been contacted. Some have said they missed a phone call and when they returned the call, they got on to one of the numbers in the Defence Forces. It was a 1800 number that was used. When they returned the call, they were in contact with an office in the Defence Forces. They were told that office had nothing to do with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: That is not what we are hearing from people on the ground. The people in contact with me have said they have received no contact of any description but when they check, they find they are still registered on the system as having given a pledge.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I do not agree with the witness. The evidence I have is that people have not been contacted and in many cases if people missed a call, when they returned the call they ended up getting on to the Defence Forces. Whoever answered the phone said they were not dealing with the matter and they did not know to whom the caller should be referred.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Will that be made available to the public, especially in view of the fact that people seem to be unaware of it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Okay. I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: In the reports it is stated that 466 claims have been agreed upon. Are we entitled to get details as to what the cost of that was?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Yes, that 466 have been determined by the employer's representative. Can we get any idea about the additional cost as a result of those claims and a broad outline of what was involved in them?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: We might get information on that. The number determined is 466. How many of those were then taken on to the next step or have been formally agreed by both parties?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 420. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of further information requests for private felling licences issued by his Department for the week commencing 23 May 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28813/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (2 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of further information requests for private forest road applications issued by his Department for the week commencing 23 May 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28814/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to the introduction of a tillage scheme to incentivise tillage farmers to grow catch crops which would provide significant additional fodder for the Irish livestock sector during the winter months where there is difficulty with affordability and availability of meal; and if he will make a statement on...