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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: For the benefit of the committee, what figures does the Minister have?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister referred to completion within the envelope provided. Does he expect, as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, this hospital to be delivered for €1.7 billion? Is that correct?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, Minister, that is a very civil servant answer. He is learning his trade very quickly.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am not asking the Minister that. I want to get to the bottom of whether the Minister, who has been in his role as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a number of months now, has a dicky bird as to where this will end up. Is this a runaway train that will keep on escalating and increasing? Has the Minister got a private figure he is not willing to share with the committee as to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Is it correct that the Minister has made no further allocation for 2021 to the national children's hospital?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: On Vote 11, concerning the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and his Department, which has a budget of €44.9 million, a staff complement of 161 and a grant to the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, of €3 million for 2021. My question concerns the use of funding and, more importantly, the information that comes back from that type of research. The Minister...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that and the work of the ESRI is crucially important. The Minister talks about listening to the ESRI but is it not the reality that the Government has listened to the developers here? This is a developer-led scheme. I am not saying that to make the accusation. I know it because developers came to Sinn Féin and tried to convince us of the merits of this proposal. We told...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We will have a further debate when our motion is tabled in the Dáil. I hear what the Minister is saying. He believes it will make it more affordable; almost everybody else says the opposite. The Government is in tune with the developers. Both of them claim it will make it more affordable but everyone else is saying it will actually do the opposite and will push up house prices....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, that is not the question I asked. I did not ask the Minister if he could control it or direct it. I asked him if he accepts that the Minister is entitled to express his opinion on the decision of Bank of Ireland to close branches. That opinion could also call on the bank not to do that in the middle of a pandemic.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Under the relationship framework signed up to by the Department and the bank, not only can the Minister express an opinion, including calling for these branches not to be closed, but indeed in any consultation with the Minister, his views must be taken into account. That is not to say they must be acted upon but they must be taken into account. The Minister is the largest shareholder in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister believe that Bank of Ireland should not close branches in the middle of a pandemic? The regulator in Britain has called on banks not to close their branches in the middle of a pandemic. There is a rationale for it. The rationale is that it is hard to reach vulnerable customers. It is hard to reach businesses that are temporarily closed at this time and therefore it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Chief Government Information Officer (Revised) (2 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Minister has not made his views known on that question. He continues to avoid that question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is hell-bent on introducing a shared equity scheme that will only push up house prices. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, knows, as we all do, that a whole generation is locked out of home ownership because of the prices that are being charged for houses. It is not just Sinn Féin that is saying the scheme will...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The warnings are there for the Minister and his party to see.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We should call a spade a spade. Mandatory quarantine in a person's home will not work. It is not quarantine. Garda sergeants and inspectors have come out and said they do not know what the Government is talking about. This is what Garda sergeants and inspectors are saying when the Government claims this is being followed up on and that there is a robust system in place, when everybody and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: D'inis an tAire Sláinte dúinn sa Dáil inné go bhfuil idir 1,000 agus 3,500 duine ag taisteal isteach go hÉirinn achan lá. An tseachtain seo caite, tháinig 10,500 duine isteach trí Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath amháin. Tá muintir na tíre glasáilte taobh istigh de shrianta 5 km agus ag an am céanna tá daoine ag teacht...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (24 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an eircode will be expedited in advance of the next quarterly assignment of eircodes in May 2021 for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who urgently requires a broadband connection for work and online schooling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an application by a person (details supplied) to change a UK driver licence to an Irish driver licence will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10531/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a UK driver licence issued in exchange for a Zimbabwean licence can be exchanged for an Irish driver licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10532/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (24 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the establishment of a future of Irish banking forum that would include all key stakeholders, banks, regulators, unions and external experts to consider the current state of the Irish banking market and its long-term future in view of the announced withdrawal by a bank (details supplied) from the market; and if he will make a statement...