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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of capital projects anticipated to commence in the next five years that cost €100 million or more; the expected cost of external consultants for each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42887/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 340. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of capital projects that cost €100 million or more in the past five years; the cost of outside consultants for each of the projects costing €100 million or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42864/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of capital projects anticipated to commence in the next five years that cost €100 million or more; the expected cost of external consultants for each project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42880/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: This has been one of the most asked questions in this House over recent years. I heard the Taoiseach say earlier that previous Governments hammered disabilities. How long is it going to take the Government to honour the commitment it made on several occasions? The Taoiseach, as Minister, made the same commitment that he would find an alternative to that scheme to assist those who need the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: At the match.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electricity Generation (16 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this issue. Notwithstanding the announcement last week on the provision of revenue from the carbon tax to the just transition fund, which will be for the regions, localities and communities affected by the loss of jobs in the area for years, the nub of the issue is that the public service obligation, PSO, payment will expire in the coming weeks. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electricity Generation (16 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: Notwithstanding rehabilitation, which, of course, will follow in the event of no excavation taking place beyond next year, is the Minister aware of a post-PSO scenario on the pricing of peat between Bord na Móna and the ESB? Is he aware of the costs associated with carbon credits to be paid for by Bord na Móna? If so, will he give a commitment to the Dáil that after...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (15 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the €130 million allocation of additional resources in the health capital allocation for 2020; the amount of this that is being used for the national children’s hospital; the amount coming from the €200 million reserve set aside for the national children’s hospital and National Broadband...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (15 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the €50 million re-profiling of capital expenditure in the health capital expenditure allocation for 2020; the purpose of the re-profiling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41999/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (15 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 418. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the €102 million allocation to the building, equipping and furnishing of health facilities; the amount of same going to the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42028/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (15 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 419. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the €10 million allocation to the information services and related services for health agencies; the amount of same going to the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42029/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (15 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the capital appropriations-in-aid for health in 2019 and 2020; the reason it has dropped by €10 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42030/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 15. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the large increase in the number waiting more than 18 months for an outpatient appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore since May 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41200/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (9 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 117. To ask the Minister for Health if his officials have been involved with putting in place a sustainable funding model for section 39 voluntary health organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39609/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (9 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if compensation would be due to the preferred bidder of the national broadband plan if preferred bidder status was withdrawn and another bidder was subsequently given preferred bidder status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41314/19]

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: That was a breach of the good faith in which we approached that budget. This is further compounded by the failure to create a special purpose vehicle, SPV, for credit unions to invest in, despite Central Bank approval. The Government is leaving a reservoir of finance to help build homes completely untapped. It would also be a source of funds for embattled credit unions throughout the...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: Somewhere under the Minister’s couch, lodged between Greystones Tidy Towns submission and Fine Gael’s plans for rural Ireland, are the missing millions in his Department. On childcare, we remain deeply concerned about the roll-out of the national childcare scheme. The Government's obsession with announcements before planning and publicity before resources risks undoing a...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: We were assured. The truth, however, is on the ground and in hospitals throughout the country. The truth was to be found in Tullamore earlier this week when I was confronted by that vista. That is the response I received, and that in no way, shape or form reflects on the ability and commitment of the staff who wish to deliver those packages. It is a reflection on the Government and its...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: Some things never change. A century ago the First Dáil convened to strike out on a new path for the nation. The Independence project has been fraught with challenge in the years since, but we have always risen to it. Today, as successors of the Members of the First Dáil, we are confronted with a new and difficult task. The dark horizon of a hard Brexit that we confront poses...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: When it has literally come down to a handful of votes at a divided Westminster, they have been nowhere to be seen.