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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: To go back to the VRT issue at the two centres in Cork, there does not seem to be a problem in other areas. I understand that it takes less time to get VRT approval in Tralee, Waterford and Galway. Can the problem in Cork be dealt with?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I am aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I would appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I will raise another issue related to home care. I think Mr. Cody will accept, as I think everyone does, that in the case of a lot of home care, people cannot get it without having to pay cash. That is recognised. In fairness to those who are providing the home care-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Maybe Mr. Cody might be, but that is the reality. Let us not ignore the fact. We have 720,000 people over 65 years of age. By 2030, there will be 1 million. There will be a significant increase, therefore, in the demand for home care. With regard to the meat industry, we allowed people to come in from abroad. If an employer wants to bring someone in from abroad to work, it must guarantee...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: But it has a role in deciding what is taken into account as regards payment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: But allowances are provided to various people in different work areas. Is this not an area at which Revenue should be looking if we want to exclude and take away what we are turning a blind eye to?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: However, Revenue makes recommendations about what is workable. Much of the current system as it applies to home care is not workable

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: There has been some litigation on this matter previously, relating to Bus Éireann having all responsibility for school transport and whether the appropriate public tendering is taking place. That was my recollection of this issue previously but I do not know if the correspondence deals with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: One problem I found was that the local authorities failed to act in a timely manner to get the estates up to standard. By the time they started work, the bond had expired. There is a responsibility on the part of the builder but also in regard to planning. It is a planning condition that the builder is complying with and the local authority, by not insisting on the work being done in a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: On the section 38 issue, a huge budget went out to those organisations and I think it would be one to look at.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Car Test (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons there is a six-week to eight-week delay in getting an appointment for a car to be assessed for VRT in Blarney, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37270/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Car Test (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department plans to take remedial action to deal with the backlog in having cars assessed for VRT at Blarney, County Cork in order that vehicles can be assessed for VRT in an earlier timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37271/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Car Test (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will give consideration to identifying a new centre for dealing with the assessment of vehicles for VRT for the Cork region due to the unreasonable delay that currently exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37272/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: My apologies for missing the meeting yesterday - I got caught up on another issue. An item of correspondence yesterday related to orthodontics. That has been going on for some time. Could we have this back on the agenda at the earliest possible date? It is most important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I appreciate that.