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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (19 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to cost overruns on contracts within her Department with a value in excess of €10 million that came in more than 10% over budget in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; if so, the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8422/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (19 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to cost overruns on contracts in his Department with a value in excess of €10 million that came in more than 10% over budget in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8426/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Contracts Data (19 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 700. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to cost overruns on contracts within her Department with a value in excess of €10 million that came in more than 10% over budget in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; if so, the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8419/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The public are growing weary of all the waste, the cost overruns and everything else. I call on the Tánaiste to put in place an immediate review of the expenses in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, especially relating to press secretaries and advisers. Information provided to me in responses to parliamentary questions has shown that €6.5 million has been spent in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is ridiculous.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister was only after spin when he was in opposition.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: You make €100,000.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I would not go.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I would not go near ye. It is all supply and no confidence.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am asking you to give back the €100,000.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Tánaiste answer the question?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is the wrong site.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It never listened-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It has no expertise.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Not in this area.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is in the wrong place.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: When you are in a hole, stop digging.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is the one who is lambasting. External firms are being paid and he stated that his Departments are not able to carry out a review. Surely, one of his officials could do it. Can they not add? In reply to a parliamentary question last year, the Minister informed me that it cost €44,500, yet he is now saying it was approximately €73,000. There is a disparity of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: There is a gap between the figures of €44,500 and €73,000. It is a lot of money to ordinary Joe Soaps, although it might not be a lot to the Minister, his plethora of advisers or his competent officials. The Department employs external agencies and officials, but the Minister has provided alarming sums. He said the Department employed PwC only once. If he had said it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (14 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister's Departments. He has two of them but perhaps he cannot manage them both.