Results 101-120 of 282 for speaker:Joe Neville

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regeneration Projects (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I ask the Minister if the Department plans to resource town centre first and establish a dedicated town regeneration team in every local authority focused on tackling vacancy and dereliction in town and villages, as committed in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. I am looking over at Deputy Wall, who is from Athy in County Kildare, while I am from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regeneration Projects (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the Minister for his response. He referenced the rural but I am also conscious of Kildare, which has the unique issue that it has a number of large towns, like Athy and Newbridge in the south, and Monasterevin, Clane, Celbridge, Leixlip, Naas, Maynooth and Kilcock in the north. We can see where dereliction has impacted those towns and where there is a need for regeneration. We have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regeneration Projects (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank Deputy Wall for his contribution. We did not organise this but, at the same time, we are speaking with one voice because we know the issues at hand. I am sure that other counties could do the same. I thank the Minister for his depth of knowledge and his interest in the topic. We need to ensure this gets rolled out.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the Minister for his feedback and his commitment. The two of us have benefitted from the amazing education system we have had in this country. We have both utilised it to the best possible degree in various forms. What we want, and the opportunity we have here, is to ensure that all the young people growing up in this new and growing constituency can access it, and I see Deputy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to further increase the SUSI grant application threshold in budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26323/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Grant Payments (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the Minister for his reply. As someone who grew up just after third level education was made free, I benefited, as did many of my peers and our parents and families. That opened up third level education, which might not have been a possibility before. We have seen those benefits. Obviously, that has evolved and changed over the last number of years. It is incumbent on this...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I am a newly elected TD. I went through two elections last year and one of the key issues that kept coming up on the doors was the children’s hospital. I ask the questions today not just for me as a TD but on behalf of the public who elected me and, I suppose, the Government as well. I was an auditor in PriceWaterhouseCooper and this brings me back to those days. I have the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: It will be referred to as the primary contractor. When does Mr. Gunning expect the hospital to be kitted out with medical equipment?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: That is what I was going to say. I was going to link it in with the tied question I had on the phased early access. Would that essentially be before the building is complete? Before you get the keys, we will say. Mr. Gunning would expect to get the keys in September under the current timeline, notwithstanding what has to be gone through ahead of that? There would be early access before then.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: Will there be technical commissioning for machines as part of that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: Does that mean Ms Nugent's staff will then have access to go through, use the machines to get used to them and familiarise themselves with them.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: This is during that early access phase.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I think in the note we received yesterday €853 million was the figure given for claims, and €793 million was listed for the end of 2023. It is obviously increased by €60 million, but it is roughly static because it was €700 million in the 2022 accounts. That number has sat there. It obviously relates to BAM. It is a number the witnesses do not believe has...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: That is where the number of roughly €50 million-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: Theoretically, there is another €55 million that could potentially have accrued in the accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: The €50 million is in the accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: Another item raised by the C and AG was the €107 million listed on page 30 of the financial statements. Just to clarify, none of that has accrued yet. It has been paid to BAM and, obviously, there is a bond in place.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: At the same time, however, it has been felt, more so than the rest of the claims, that there is a reason. What is the difference between the €800 million and the €107 million? The €107 million had to have been paid. Why is that sitting separate from the €800 million and recognised in two completely different parts of the financial statements?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: Obviously that supersedes the €50 million. It would be double the number, but that would be similarly related.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Joe Neville: I know that-----