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Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 786. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to persons wishing to access IVF treatments; his plans to extend and increase the number and level of supports and services available to such persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36094/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 854. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of respite care provided at a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal each week to date in 2018; the number of service users these hours were delivered to for each of these weeks in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36380/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licences (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the conclusions and findings contained in the newly updated draft appropriate assessment conclusion statement in which proposals to manage and licence aquaculture activities in the west of the Ardara/Maas Road Special Area of Conservation are outlined; his further views on whether the activities for which a licence is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Maritime Safety Regulations (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of applications to have boats surveyed to assess their suitability to operate as passenger vessels received by the Marine Survey Office in 2017 and to date in 2018; the dates on which all applications were received by the office; the dates on which a determination was made in respect of same; in the case of outstanding...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disabled Drivers Permits (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce legislation to extend eligibility to a disabled parking permit to provide for the carers of persons with autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36682/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of family resource centres in County Donegal offering family contact centre services; the process by which they can be accessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35746/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rents Data (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of individuals or families that pay rent to a private landlord each month excluding those that benefit from State supports in paying rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36363/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rents Data (7 Sep 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households that pay rent to a private landlord each month excluding those that benefit from State supports in paying rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36364/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Fáilte roimh an NDFA arís go dtí an coiste and this time we are joined by the Department officials. Did Mr. Cahillane watch, or read the transcripts of, the testimony given by the victims of the Sammon Contracting collapse to the committee, during which they gave their personal stories? One person recounted that he could not get out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: As the person responsible for the agency that has to sign off on the works carried out by the subcontractors and is refusing to do so, what would Mr. Cahillane say to those individuals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I understand what the witness is saying. Since the committee hearings, I have been contacted by numerous other contractors. The numbers vary but the financial impact on some has been €20,000, which is sufficient to put them out of business. Others have informed me that they have taken a hit of more than €750,000. There is then everything in between. When one hears the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I come back to the key question that has been put to me about the State handling stolen goods, which is the way this was phrased. When one looks at this issue, one can see some parallels. A company provides €750,000 worth of equipment and the State says this was supposed to be paid for by a liquidated company and the matter is one for the supplier company and the liquidated company...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I recognise the NDFA is not at fault here, and I am sure my colleague will tease out some of the oversight issues in terms of Carillion and Sammon. The National Development Finance Agency and the State can step in and this goes to the nub of the issue. Mr. Cahillane, on behalf of the NDFA, confirmed to me the last time he appeared before the committee that the NDFA has to certify that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is not; what I am putting to Mr. Cahillane is not for the taxpayer to do that at all. The Dutch Infrastructure Fund, DIF, which is funding this project, needs to be told that the only way the NDFA can certify the works done on these schools is by the subcontractors certifying their work, as laid down in the statutory code. It is up to them to engage the subcontractors and find a way....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The NDFA is creating a system that allows for certification without the input of the subcontractors. If I was the DIF, without morals, of course I would do what it is doing. That means it can shaft the business down the road for €750,000, or the security firm for €20,000, or the painting firm for €76,000, and so on, without any concern that, more than likely, many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am sorry to interrupt. DIF has absolutely nothing to do with the statutory codes established in the Houses of the Oireachtas. DIF did not exist when those codes were developed. The NDFA is allowing for this to be circumvented, so I want to ask the witnesses, very clearly, what page, what line, what paragraph allows for these certifications to be given without the input of subcontractors...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Let me just finish on this point, and one other small point. I can point to sections in the code that state that the subcontractors have to certify their works. That is the reason there is such a robust code. They are the only people who can do this. The witness cannot point to anywhere in the code that says that this independent inspector can do exactly what the NDFA is doing, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We are dealing with the collapse of Carillion and the collapse of Sammon. We are now dealing with schools that have not opened. We all want those schools finished. We want our children in those schools. We want the teachers in those schools. We want the schools to be a safe environment, with the subcontractors signing off on them and being paid for the work that they did. Let me talk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I have not seen it, no.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is a building control issue. Had the NDFA no responsibility?