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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: These are relatives.

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: I commend my colleague, Deputy Kerrane, on bringing this motion to the floor of the Dáil. It is a reasonable motion with practical solutions that would dramatically improve the lives of many. Fuel poverty means that people literally do not have the ability to afford to heat their homes for them and their families. Families choose between putting food on the table, heating their homes...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the length of service requirements for a civil servant to avail of the preserved pension benefits for an officer who served between 1 June 1973 and 1 June 2002. [5181/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies with unlimited status from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies registered in jurisdictions that are listed on the EU's blacklist from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5417/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies using anonymous trustee ownership structures from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5418/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the restrictions that apply to companies that use a bearer share ownership structure from being awarded contracts as part of the public procurement process. [5419/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether companies in receipt of public procurement contracts should adhere to the EU Code of Conduct for Business Taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5421/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether aggressive tax planning by a company should be grounds for exclusion from a public procurement process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5422/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (3 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of unlimited companies that were awarded public procurement contracts in each of the years 2016 to 2020. [5420/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: In the correspondence we have received as a committee, we do not see any explanation as to where the astronomical increase of €81,000 comes from. Where was this figure plucked from? Where are the calculations to show why an increase of €81,000 was chosen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: There is one reality for some and then there is a totally different reality for others. I did look at the minutes of the meeting but it did not give exact calculations on how the €81,000 was agreed on. It just seems that €292,000 was seen as a nice, round number. The Minister mentioned in his opening statement that he feels the figure of €292,000 is commensurate with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: The Minister has not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: The Minister has said there is a determination to resolve the issue. There are reports. Nurses who went on strike and are now on the front line of the pandemic got a Public Service Pay Commission. However, when it comes to top civil servants there is an increase of €81,000 and there does not seem to be any clarity. The Minister has given us no clarity as to how that figure was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Why was the increase €81,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Who did the Minister speak to in his Department? Did he speak to the Secretary General about it? Did he heed the warnings he got from people in his Department that the increase could have a knock-on effect on others in terms of pay scales? What risk analysis did he carry out?

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. He will find that, on Galway City Council, it is actually Fianna Fáil councillors who voted against certain public housing being built. I am glad that he wants to hear constructive solutions. I will get straight into them. A report released on Monday by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland stated that the construction cost of two-bedroom...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (28 Jan 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the composition of gross GNP by all expenditure components, that is, personal consumption, central and local government spending GFCF in each of the years 1990 to 2020 or the earliest and latest years for which this data is available in tabular form. [4794/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (28 Jan 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the composition of real GNP in constant prices for the latest year for which data is available by all expenditure components, that is, personal consumption, central and local government spending GFCF in each of the years 1990 to 2020 or the earliest and latest years for which this data is available in tabular form. [4795/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (28 Jan 2021)

Mairéad Farrell: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance the composition of gross GNP by all income components, that is, dividends, interest, rents in each of the years 1990 to 2020 or the earliest and latest years for which this data is available in tabular form. [4796/21]