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Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Services (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting for debate the critical issue of the shortage of orthodontic consultants in the midlands. We are at crisis point as regards interventions for young children. I met a number of parents at one of my recent weekly clinics in my constituency office who had been affected by this situation. One was a lady whose son had been on the waiting list...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Trading Online Voucher Scheme (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the uptake of the trading online voucher scheme by county both in 2017 and since the scheme’s introduction; if the scheme is being expanded; if so, if such an expansion will include data protection and cyber security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7261/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fish Farming (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work of his Department and agencies under its aegis on ensuring investment in fish farms by Inland Fisheries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7262/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will receive guidance on an enrolment anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7591/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [7554/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if universities and institutes of technology come under the requirements that require staff to be Garda vetted as per requirements of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012; if such requirements are required in circumstances in which staff are close to retiring; the penalties enacted on those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) for an echocardiography will be expedited. [6936/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 424. To ask the Minister for Health the process which has been established regarding pay for section 39 organisations; and if there is a timeframe. [7218/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied). [6937/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if relief measures will be put in place for members of group water schemes in view of the discontinuation of the domestic water charging regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7306/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (13 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: 681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an initial free water allowance for agricultural holdings that are subject to the water charging regime will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7307/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: I have listened to the discussion this morning. On top of that, we are talking about bringing in RTÉ and all these sectors. I have nothing against bringing in any of these things, but sometimes we need to focus on what our job is on the PAC. There is aggressive tax playing going on in agencies which is fully legal. I remember when the head of the Revenue Commissioners appeared before...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: It has never looked through the eyes of the company. In other words, if someone sets up a company structure with only one client, the idea behind which is to minimise a person's tax liability, the Revenue considers that to be perfectly legal as long as the law is complied with regarding expenses and salaries. What they are doing is perfectly legal. At times we think we should change the law...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: The witnesses can understand why people get frustrated at the level of underspend presented to us, especially when one takes a snapshot of the crisis period we have just come out of. In 2011 the State was spending 50% more than it was taking in, it could not borrow on open markets and gaps in our society became even bigger which the State could not cover. I see the dormant accounts fitting...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: It is €136 million for 2017 and Mr. McCarthy is now being asked to manage a fund that had a value of €259 million at the end of 2016.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Mr. McCarthy's job is to come up with conditions for the allocation of this money and what Departments it should go to, not the management of the funds. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Nevertheless, the Department is responsible for the conditions which facilitate the allocation to different Departments.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Have the staff who were working on the Dormant Account Fund from 2012, in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government as it was then, been transferred to the Department of Community and Rural Development?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: Mr. McCarthy cannot answer that very important question. I want to find out where responsibility lies. Very vulnerable people in RAPID areas, children and adolescents who would benefit from counselling, were not getting key intervention because the State could not allocate and spend money on their behalf. I expect Mr. McCarthy to be very clear about the people who worked to allocate this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund (8 Feb 2018)

Peter Burke: They either did or did not.