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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her legislative priorities in relation to tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26075/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans that are in place to reduce the waiting time for employment permits to be issued for non-European Union citizens; if additional staff will be employed to deal with the backlog; if a decision on all applications can be made within a four-week timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26306/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: 656. To ask the Minister for Health when the full complement of the 24 additional lactation consultant posts created under the 2022 National Service Plan will be filled; the number of posts that have been filled to date; the timeline for a person to be appointed to all of these posts created; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26304/22]

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: I will focus on the issue of public contracts, in particular, public private partnership and the way forward. I am concerned about the process of the putting in place of public contracts, as a result of which a major cost is being added to the contracts. I will cite the example of a contract with which I was directly involved. It was a school premises where a new school needed to be built....

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: With regard to the system in Departments, whether it be the Office of Public Works, the Department of Health or the Department of Education, does the Mr. Moloney accept the process involved from the time we decide on a project, to it going for and securing planning, to getting it up and running is far too slow? Does he accept that process needs to be reviewed, given that in the private...

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: I will cite the example of a project where a local authority got a project done from start to finish in two years. I had the privilege of being Lord Mayor of Cork from 2003 to 2004. I had a very good city manager, Joe Gavin, there at that time. We had many properties rented for staff around the city. He wanted to do an extension to City Hall. He got companies to tender, design, apply for...

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: We ran into problems with some public private partnership projects. What mechanisms need to put in place to ensure with public private partnerships there needs to be an external oversight on behalf of the relevant Department to make sure all that is set out in the contract is being delivered?

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: Does Mr. Moloney see that mechanism now being used? He said nothing has been done since 2015. That is seven years ago. Is Mr. Moloney saying we now have the expertise in the Departments to make sure we have all the mechanisms in place, if we go down that road?

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]