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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 2347. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to easing visitation restrictions in nursing homes given the removal of TAPS, the scale of full vaccination in this sector and easing of restrictions elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the plan to expand driver lessons to non-essential workers; the expected timeline for the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38935/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (14 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline on resuming short stay visitor visa applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38640/21]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister for bringing forward this legislation. It is always difficult to bring in legislation of this kind or, indeed, any tax legislation. As my colleague, Deputy Bruton, said, there is never a good time to do this. Recognising the changes the Minister has made to the bands, rates and so on, the difficulty taxpayers in my area of Dún Laoghaire are going to face will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 46. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a child (details supplied) in obtaining urgent and life-changing surgery as soon as possible. [27631/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My question concerns a two-year-old boy in Cork who came to my attention because of an initiative I am doing around the cost of having children in long-term hospital care. The boy's urethra is in the wrong place and I cannot understand what the delay is in providing surgical treatment for him. May I come back in, a Cheann Comhairle, after the Minister has responded?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: May I make on comment, a Cheann Comhairle?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This is very important. The issue has been going on since the boy was born. I raised it with the Department in March after meeting the family for the first time. I have seen very different experiences in regard to surgical emergencies in Crumlin hospital. The decision in this boy's case cannot be about waiting lists. I have brought a child in with septic arthritis, which is an...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank all the witnesses for coming to this meeting. Looking through the briefing documents and, especially, as I have been listening to the contributions, I wonder if I have a very different perspective on this matter compared with some of my colleagues. I come to my questions with that query in mind. We obviously have a significant cost tension. Costs for this project have been going...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Gunning. Yes, that is certainly what I came away with. At the same time, I see him defending each of those claims. What I think we are forgetting is that Mr. Gunning is defending those claims on behalf of the State.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: He is also defending them in respect of the overall escalation of the costs generally. From the briefing documents and my reading of what Mr. Gunning has said this morning, the approach taken has meant that a lower additional cost has been incurred than might otherwise have been the case in respect of conceding claims repeatedly and establishing a new precedent. That is my reading of the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I acknowledge that I have a strong interest in this project being delivered, as does everybody else. I have a strong interest as well, as a member of this committee, in it being done in the most efficient way for the State. This is the second time that Mr. Gunning has appeared before this committee and he also gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Health last week. Mr. Gunning has an...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We will consider this matter and hold people to account at an appropriate time when this process is no longer commercially sensitive. I refer to a contractor putting in an inordinate number of claims against a State entity trying to deliver a project for the State. In that regard, Mr. Gunning has to come in here to carry out this aspect of the battle in public, but representatives of the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand why this is the case. In addition, the evidence and experience to date shows that there has been a series of claims and I can see very good commercial reasons for what Mr. Gunning has just said. However, from the perspective of State accountability, we still want to see how this project has been undertaken and how it has been managed. What I do not want to see in two or three...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Briefly, and coming at this issue in what may be a different way, what lessons does Mr. Gunning think can be derived from this process that may be of benefit to procurement processes generally and help future Governments and the State?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That was a very clever answer.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will follow on from Deputy Sherlock's point about the provision of a note on the court documents. Those court documents will be in the public domain. What exactly is Mr. Gunning going to be able to provide to us?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How quickly does Mr. Gunning think he will be able to get that back to us?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That would be great. Our difficulty is trying to deal with what Deputy Catherine Murphy correctly described as a live issue. There is obviously sensitivity around the public nature of the issue. Will that information come back to us today or tomorrow, ideally before we visit the site tomorrow?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 89. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations in giving Covid-19 vaccines available to the 15 to 17-year-old age group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37585/21]