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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: I have a few questions on consultancy costs mentioned in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. The note states the consultancy costs are all outsourced; business as usual functions. What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Yes, I read that in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Yes. The note is listed under the term "consultancy costs". The note states that consultancy costs are all outsourced; business as usual functions. Does anyone know what that means? I am sorry but I must have read a different paper.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: I am referring to the bottom of page 5.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Yes, that is our briefing document.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Are all consultancy costs or consultancies independently outsourced? I mean consultants.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Has the board its own project team?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Are the consultancy costs mostly inhouse or mostly outsourced?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Is that where the term "business as usual" comes in?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: In 2017, planning application costs cost €7.3 million and, in 2016, it only cost €2.97 million. Why was the cost so high in 2017 yet so low in 2016?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: In what year was the planning application lodged?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Is that why the note states there is a payment plan in place to repay Dublin City Council? What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Does the board still have to pay Dublin City Council?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Payment is ongoing. The board is paying Dublin City Council over a period.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: That is okay, Chairman.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (24 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: 28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the commencement of works on the ground under the national broadband plan; the measures contained within same to ensure rapid roll out of broadband services for rural areas, rural communities and regional towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3148/19]
- National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Like my other colleagues, I have a short and simple message from rural Ireland. We need broadband and we need it now. People are frustrated, fed up and tired of the delays with the national broadband plan. Since May 2015, when I was elected, I have had representations from people living in rural communities and on the outskirts of rural towns who cannot understand why I cannot give them an...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (22 Jan 2019)
Bobby Aylward: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the school transport system, in particular the system for the allocation of concessionary tickets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2726/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Bobby Aylward: I am sorry I missed some of the earlier proceedings, so I may criss-cross on some of the questions that may have been asked. I ask the committee to bear with me because I was not here to witness the debate. I had other commitments in the Dáil. I wish to follow on from Deputy Connolly's point about capacity in our prisons. We have 12 prisons, which I believe are full, at a cost of...