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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on hospital surgery waiting lists for six months or longer; the steps being taken to reduce waiting periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50815/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 796. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent assistance will be provided to a family (details supplied) to obtain a residential care bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48442/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank everybody for coming and Mr. Griffin for his opening statement. I will start with cybersecurity. I believe the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, is an arm of Mr. Griffin's Department. How many ransomware attacks does he believe there have been both on and in the State, say, in the past three years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Then let me ask Mr. Griffin a different way. My time is limited. What steps have been taken? This does not draw too far into policy because it is about protecting the State from vulnerabilities and protecting the risk to the State. The Senate intelligence committee in US is considering prohibiting ransomware payments generally from private companies, as much as for any other entity. This...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How does that compare with previous years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If it is an increasing trend, perhaps Mr. Griffin would send the figure to the committee privately for the previous three years, so that we have a basis for comparison. The figure of 3,000 is hard to contextualise otherwise, as he will understand.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will move on to my other questions. Mr. Griffin mentioned in his letter to us dated 11 August, and I have just repeated it in relation to the schools, that the plan is to roll out high-speed broadband to 679 primary schools. He said in his opening remarks that this has been done in 141 schools at this point. I have some quick questions. Are these radio connections or fibre connections?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Who is building this? Is it National Broadband Ireland, NBI, or is it a subcontractor?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: To go back to the schools, have the contracts been awarded to the subcontractors at this point?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: So the contracts have been partially awarded. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will ask another question-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What about HEAnet? I thought that it was to be involved. I thought there were broader issues around the primary schools, particularly around security issues, as well as about filters to weed out inappropriate content getting into schools. What is the role of HEAnet in all of that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Mulligan. I have other questions. I am not trying to be funny, but I am not sure if his broadband connection is the strongest. At a recent meeting of the communications committee, the NBI said that the taxpayer is insulated from any inflation or price increase on the NBI roll-out and that it is capped at €2.5 billion. From the Department’s perspective, is that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the size of the NBP team within the Department? Does it have any external advisers, such as accountants, lawyers, and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the annual cost for the advisers retained by the Department to review and oversee the project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is always helpful. Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with Mr. Griffin. That is why I am asking questions in relation to the fixed price. Obviously, Covid-19 will have some impact on that. However, we are also aware of considerable supply chain difficulties in the global market at the moment. There are considerable labour market pressures including and specifically for engineers, which is always a challenge. Our experience on this...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a question about the Department's plan to bring all of the infrastructure together to make city broadband more effective, more quickly. These are existing State assets in the road, but we still have problems with city broadband. From the Department's perspective, what is the plan to co-ordinate all of those State assets to bring them into being more quickly so that people in cities...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Perhaps he is in Dún Laoghaire?