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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Data (28 May 2019)

David Cullinane: 190. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual budget for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in each of the years 2001 to 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22614/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (28 May 2019)

David Cullinane: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the 15 additional posts in disability services for children in the south east community healthcare area that have been secured to improve access and assessments by county (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22781/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (22 May 2019)

David Cullinane: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore the capitation grant to €200 per annum per child in view of the significant capital funding constraints that primary schools find themselves under; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22127/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (22 May 2019)

David Cullinane: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of a school (details supplied) that made an application to the devolved grants section of his Department in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22172/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (21 May 2019)

David Cullinane: 332. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open the disability car scheme to new claimants; his further plans to offer disability cars that are more than five years old and have been replaced to persons not on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21863/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (21 May 2019)

David Cullinane: 386. To ask the Minister for Health his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21593/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: I welcome that. Lessons are obviously being learned in respect of the national children's hospital and the broadband plan. As we discussed at our last meeting, there was a lot of commentary on the correspondence between Mr. Watt and the Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. That is fine. He set out very real concerns regarding that project....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: If that is what the correspondence shows up, that is what it shows up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: Even that is a learning in itself. Most people see the tension between the Departments as having been a healthy tension. It is good to see that as part of a process. If that was lacking in respect of the national children's hospital or, worse, if it was the case that the Department of Health was trying to make contact with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and not hearing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: We will, but I still think it merits a response in terms of the correspondence that came in separate from this meeting, so I would like to make a number of observations on it. The first is that this was never about individuals. I am not aware of what comments the Chairman made but any concerns that were raised, from recollection, were more about the process and conflicts of interest. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: An additional point I forgot to mention was that if there is a conflict of interest, it can be managed if it is declared. There was no declaration here. I read the PwC report and it does not say anywhere that it provided high-level advice at an earlier stage in this project. It was not said. We had discussions at both this committee and the Joint Committee on Health and questions were...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: Do we all get double time?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: My first question is for Mr. Breslin. I have two things to say so that we are on the same page. I think we can certainly agree that we are now left with a project with significant cost overruns and that some of those costs could have been avoided. Would Mr. Breslin accept that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: That is my second point.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: We can establish that there was a cost overrun where costs could have been contained and indeed reduced.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: We have two reports, one from Mazars and one from PwC, both of which show failings that led to the cost overrun. There are learnings from that because there are recommendations in the PwC report that are, obviously, useful for future projects as well so, hopefully, we can agree on that as well.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: I am sure Mr. Breslin has seen public commentary regarding very robust exchanges between the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding the national broadband plan. Some would see that discussion regarding a cost-benefit analysis of that project and very strongly...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: Were there disagreements about the two-stage process at any point?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: Is Mr. Breslin satisfied that the some of the issues captured in both reports that led in part to the cost overrun are down to failures in both the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Health?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

David Cullinane: I will get to that in terms of the PwC report-----