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Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: Sinn Féin's "vote in four but get two" approach to parliamentary democracy is a cynical sham. Under Deputy Adams, it was "They haven’t gone away, you know." Under Deputy McDonald, it is "They haven't turned up, you know."

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: However, in the midst of all this uncertainty we must welcome the creation of a new socialist group. In a world gone mad another left-wing split provides reassurance that some things will never change. Inspired by talk that the GAA would split Dublin after winning the five in a row, the hard left has gone for the split first in the hope success will come later.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: All this parliament dodging and party splitting is a timely reminder that, without the stability provided by Fianna Fáil, we would drown in the alphabet soup of left-wing groups that have little interest in policy and absolutely no interest in government. Abstaining in the vote on the budget is an act of national necessity. It is definitely not an endorsement of the years of Fine...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: There was no "hear, hear" from Deputy Finian McGrath for that. He has to pay for something.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (3 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of the Supplementary Estimate that will be required in 2019 for health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40469/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Data (3 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of SMEs that have availed of public contracts in each year since 2009; the aggregate value of these contracts in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (3 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 242. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the children’s hospital; the estimated total cost of the project; when the project will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40465/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (3 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred to date in 2019 by the HSE based on the accrual accounting method; the budget for the HSE to date in 2019 under the same method; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40467/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (3 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 244. To ask the Minister for Health the value of the supplementary estimate that will be required in 2019 for health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40468/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 288. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to sign the contract for the national broadband plan; the roll out timetable in terms of the number of premises to be connected in each quarter of 2020 and 2021; the number expected to be connected at the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40466/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicle Grants (2 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding spent and number of cars covered by the electric vehicle purchase grant in each year since its creation by month, by hybrid cars, plug hybrid cars and fully electric vehicles to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39996/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: It would appear that the decision not to sign a contract in September, as had been envisaged, is the result of the implications that signing the contract would have for the State because it now appears that we would borrow much of the €3 billion cost, rather than providing for it from Revenue sources based on the projections that had been made, as the Minister indicated in answer to a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the public spending code will be updated; the specific changes to the public spending code that are being envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39880/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: I ask the Minister to respond.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister for his response. This came to a head earlier this year when a contract was awarded by the HSE in Limerick to a company with a fractured history in the delivery of a capital programme. The Taoiseach stated at the time the children's hospital issue was being debated in the House that previous performance in the delivery of capital projects would have to be given weight...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Spending Code (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: If a player who played poorly in the semi-final says he can improve his performance in the final, I still have to make a decision not to pick him when picking the team for the final. The public has seen the performance of the procurement process and the evaluation, preparation and recommendations of a contract for the children's hospital, and these have left much to be desired. People...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of the national broadband plan and the national children’s hospital from 2021 onwards; the area from which funding for the projects will come from; if no project will be impacted upon as a result of these spends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39879/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Minister will know only too well that the costs associated with the national broadband plan and the national children's hospital have ballooned out of all proportion in recent years. Will he make a statement as to how they will be funded beyond 2021 in light of the alterations which will have to be made on foot of the information becoming available in respect of their costs? I am also...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: During a discussion on the cost of the national broadband plan on "RTÉ News: Six One", the Minister stated that, despite it going to a headline rate of €3 billion, the country could withstand it and that it would be paid for out of surpluses and provided for in the coming years. As he has rightly recognised, however, we could be heading into a series of deficits as a result of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Estimates Process (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 62. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Supplementary Estimates that will be required in 2019 based on current information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39878/19]