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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Does Mr. Woods accept that patients were given their initial appointment to be assessed? Once they are on the list, we can deal with the list. The problem is they are not even getting on the list for the treatment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Can we have that in place by the end of the year?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 511. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employees paid under the temporary wage subsidy scheme from March to September 2020 are entitled to receive the short-time work support payment from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if legal advice has been received in relation to applications by an airline’s (details supplied) employees for short-time work support or ‘X’s and O’s’ supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34892/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason decisions on applications by the employees of a company (details supplied) for short-time work support between March and September 2020 are still on hold in local Intreo offices pending instruction from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure patient access to the use of new innovations, such as flash glucose monitoring, which is one of the key recommendations in the report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34900/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (10 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: 716. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department will undertake to enable hospital diabetes teams to deliver a higher volume of appointments with their patients utilising remote monitoring solutions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34901/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank the Secretary General for his presentation. I want to touch on a few issues concerning the Exchequer financial outturns. Irish Water received €96 million in 2015, €184 million in 2016, €270 million in 2017 and nothing in 2018. In 2019, Irish Water received €758 million by way of a capital contribution. Please outline the difference between a capital...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: If Irish Water borrows into the future, does this mean the State will end up having to cover those loans even though the Government may not be directly involved in the level of borrowing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: That includes shareholding in all the banks as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I want to come back on an issue I raised relating to dividends from State companies. The figure has decreased substantially in the past five years. Is there an explanation for that? What is the expectation over the coming three years? Is there a particular reason it has literally come down by more than 50%?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: It is a fairly substantial reduction.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: The question of servicing of the State debt was touched on earlier. The figure was €209 billion at the end of December 2019. It will now be up to €220 billion. Will there be a substantial increase? We are obviously going to have to pay back capital as well as interest. What likely change will arise in respect of same?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Can we get a breakdown of the figures for each of the years?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I seek clarification on a point. If a contract is entered into by a Department, there is the issue of procurement. Are we now saying we cannot look at that process until such time as the accounts for the end of the year are produced?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: I just want clarification to get my own-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Is it not the argument that if I have entered into a contract, there is now a legally binding agreement there? If I have an issue about how the process was dealt with, is that not what the Committee of Public Accounts is about? Is it not about ensuring that proper procedures and proper mechanisms were used in arriving at a decision on awarding a contract? Is the Chair now telling me I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: Taking the example of the children's hospital and money spent in 2018 and 2019, in what way is the Committee of Public Accounts limited in examining that area because the money has been already expended?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: There is a difference between bringing in the children's hospital and departmental officials and bringing in the Department of Education on the issue of calculated grades. The difficulty in regard to the calculated grades is that there are court proceedings in train but I am not aware of any difficulty in regard to the children's hospital, unless there is an aspect of it that cannot be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Colm Burke: An endorsement stays on a person's licence for a number of years. If someone does not surrender his or her licence and goes to renew it, the endorsement then begins from the issue of that new licence. There is a great disadvantage to not handing in one's licence. Unless people can renew their licences in some other way, when they go for renewal the endorsement period will begin with the...