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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: The presentation indicates the Department is finalising a new policy document on capital assets. When will that policy document be finished?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: I will move to information technology systems. I know there has been much investment in the area. I agree that the use of IT systems during the pandemic has been very effective. The Covid payment was paid out in a very short timeframe, and it went from nowhere to having a huge number of people getting those benefits. It came about as a result of very hard work within the Department and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: I want to move on to the area of pensions. The figure that stands out to me is that the number of people receiving pensions in 2019 was 26,000 whereas in 2018, it was 25,000. The issue that is arising is that I presume that in the coming years we will have more people retiring because of the processes ongoing in Departments for quite a long period of time but also because people are living...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: What percentage increase will we see in the coming years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: What will be the increase to the Exchequer over the next five years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: How much will it be as a percentage per annum?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: Is that for the next 25 years?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: 43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the issuing of a replacement driver licence card will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) working on the frontline in the United Kingdom, and who is unable to return home due to the current Covid-19 restrictions and quarantine rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32257/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for the work that they and all the people employed by the Department are doing in schools and colleges throughout the country. My questions relate to public private partnerships, PPPs, in respect of which I want to raise, first, a comparison of costs issue. Page 21 of the appropriation account includes a reference to two projects. In the case of the first, the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: In fairness, these particular projects were undertaken by Mr. Ó Foghlú's Department. We are talking about the 2018 and 2019 accounts. The two contracts in question were agreed under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills and there is a huge variation in the costs involved. I am asking what engagement there has been with the contractors in that regard.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: Mr. Ó Foghlú is still the Accounting Officer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: I accept that but I am looking for an explanation as to why there is such a variation in cost, with one project having an expenditure that went from €101 million to €220 million while the other went from €128 million to €187 million. Can I get an explanation of that huge variation? My second question was about engagement with contractors in regard to the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: And perhaps an explanation as to why there is such a big variation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: I want to move on to another issue with regard to the 40 schools requiring remediation. What is the checking system for the Department when a contract is completed? Who signs off that it is fully compliant with building regulations? This involves 40 different projects. I presume we had different people engaged in supervising these projects. How come so many went through the system...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: When a certification comes in, is there not a checking system to make sure that what the company contracted to provide is actually delivered?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: The job of the assigned certifiers is to sign off that everything has been provided.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: 219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is a delay in the payment of criminal legal aid fees to solicitors and barristers in some of the District Court and Circuit Court areas; the reason for the delay; the time period from date of application to the District Court or Circuit Court Office for the payment of the fees to the date that same are paid;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: I will be very brief. What changes do the witnesses want to see with regard to specialist registrars and their training, as well as junior doctors? I would appreciate a written reply on the changes they would make in order to assist people who are in that category. There also seems to be a lack of understanding around consultant contracts. A lot of people do not understand that a lot of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the J9 PRSI classification in the context of the temporary wage subsidy scheme assumes full-time employment of seven days per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31025/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (20 Oct 2020)

Colm Burke: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed sale by the Health Service Executive of a house (details supplied) will be postponed until an agreement has been reached with the family of the remaining resident on the resident's future care needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31469/20]