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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Is Mr. Moloney satisfied that all the safety mechanisms are there in respect of those public private partnerships, so we do not have a repeat of what happened in projects?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: Mr. Mooney stated: “I would like to update the committee on some of my Department’s priorities for the sustainable management of public expenditure and driving and supporting the reform programme.” I will touch on two issues, the first of which is the Department’s overall involvement in long-term planning within Departments. Is it the case that it is not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: To return to the local authority issue, the planning regulator is now telling local authorities that they have rezoned too much land, and the local authorities are looking five, ten or 15 years ahead because they want to put in the water infrastructure. Does Mr. Moloney accept there is no point in putting in a 2 inch water pipe to service 50 houses if there will be 500 houses in the area in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: To return to the point I made about health, 740,000 people are now aged over 65 and within eight years, that will be 1 million people. At any one time, 50% of all the people occupying hospital beds are over the age of 65. We now face a huge logjam in the system unless we undertake long-term planning involving care in the community, yet we are doing nothing about that. Has Mr. Moloney's...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: In six years, there has been no significant increase in the number of public health nurses. Surely Mr. Moloney's Department should intervene in that scenario? I was recently contacted by a 78-year-old man who lives less than 1 mile from an office where public health nurses are based. He was in hospital for three months as a result of Covid, after which he came home. To this day, he has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 38. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the online retail scheme; the amount of funding that has been allocated to the scheme since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide updated details on his Department’s work to identify the prevalence and type of drug use among the third-level student population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25080/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pathways that are being made available for people with disabilities to access further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans that are in place to reduce the waiting times for employment permits considering that recently have been taking up to five months to receive a decision on applications; if he will consider implementing measures to reimburse businesses that incur costs as a result of the backlog such as in the case of job applicants...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (18 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline that is in place under the contracts between his Department and the national car testing service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25031/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (18 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to implement a policy similar to that in the United Kingdom in which car garages with capacity to carry out car tests can do so in order to tackle the lengthy delays in obtaining a national car test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25032/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for when it is proposed that the virtual disease registries will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25028/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to reinstate Sláintecare funding for the national diabetes registry project in order that its results will inform future projects relating to other chronic diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25029/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that general practitioners and the public can only access hospital policies via a freedom of information request; when this decision was made; when his Department and the HSE made this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25030/22]

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I am sharing time with the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan. As someone who comes from a legal background, having spent more than 25 years dealing with leasehold and freehold titles, I am very much aware of the significance of a 299-year lease. Only one witness who appeared before the health committee gave evidence on behalf of the opponents of this project, and he admitted he was not a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who are in receipt of the blind pension; her Department’s work in this area to support persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24382/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who are still in receipt of the enhanced illness benefit to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24381/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review public transport bus services (details supplied); the reason that services are curtailed; the reason that a renovated and restored bus station with reduced services is now operating; if the services will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24453/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the appeal of the visa application by a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the required documentation has been submitted to the Department twice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24434/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank all of our guests for coming before the committee and giving us the information we are seeking. One of the witnesses before the committee last Thursday has now decided to describe freehold and leasehold as freehold being like owning a car and leasehold like owning a caravan. Therefore, when someone owns a caravan they cannot set out the direction they go in. Taking this, it means...