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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: No, I take exception to the point the Minister is making. He is here because we have the good grace to allow him to be in government and in a position to give stability to this country. He is riding roughshod over us, and it is a mistake he will regret if he keeps going with this answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: Money is needed to match it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The Minister has stated that projects in health and other areas will be foregone because of the overspend, but he is not showing the same conscience when it comes to this issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the national broadband plan will be paid for between 2020 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25799/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The total cost of the broadband plan between 2020 and 2043 will now be almost €3 billion. That includes €1.5 billion of additional funding over and above the amount already allocated in the development plan between 2020 and 2027. Of that amount, €782 million will be required between now and 2023. On "Six-One" some weeks ago and in answer to a parliamentary question...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: I ask the Minister to clarify the comments he made previously, especially those he made on "Six-One" and subsequently. He said categorically that no project within the national development plan would be cancelled, delayed or impacted by the decision to proceed with the national broadband plan, even though it is to cost an extra €1.5 billion. The Minister says the project will require...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The beauty of the Minister's position is that he is in government and has responsibilities. He has to decide priorities on behalf of this Dáil because he has the majority to do so. Playing games with me about what I would or would not do is not up for discussion here. I need to know what is available in the public finances to deliver a development plan to which this Dáil has...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 33. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the potential overspend at the Department of Health; his further views on whether there will be a supplementary estimate for the Department in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25801/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Expenses (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the procedures in place to regulate and monitor general expenses for employees in Departments, State companies and semi-State companies; the accountability structures that exist; the role the Comptroller and Auditor General has with general expenses for employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26046/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (20 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE requested for home help hours; the amount it received for 2019; the amount of the funding which was for extra hours; the amount for mileage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26047/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision (19 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the tangible steps his Department has taken to provide flood insurance to those properties located in areas with demountable flood defences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17987/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the concerns within his Department on spending in his Department as reported in a newspaper (details supplied); his views on whether there will be a supplementary estimate in 2019 for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25491/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 476. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether his Department and the HSE will spend more than the budgeted voted expenditure in 2019; his further views on whether his Department will require a Supplementary Estimate for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25490/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which delays are impacting the construction of the national children’s hospital; the potential extra cost to the project of the delays; his views on whether the project will be delivered on time in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25561/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: 495. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been carried out to assess the cost differential between a patient staying in an acute bed versus receiving home help hours; the average cost of keeping a person in an acute bed for a week; the cost per week of using home help hours; if the cost is less, the reason he is not increasing spending on home help while reducing spending on the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: That is throwing in the towel in relation to 2020 and Ireland can take its beating.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: As we know, this is a budgetary oversight committee and I do not want to overstep our remit. We all accept our responsibility to ensure budgets provide for and acknowledge the cost implications of meaningful policies to arrest and decrease carbonisation. The Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government began that process by implementing carbon tax in the first place. The failure of Government in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: Yes, in the forthcoming budget. It also recommends that the Government make more investment in climate-change actions and that it should lead from the front so to speak. Does Professor FitzGerald believe it is leading from the front when it buys three hybrid buses and 200 diesel ones?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: The ESRI favours incremental increases over a period of time. For example, if it is 80% over the next ten years, it should be 8% per annum. That gives certainty to the budgetary process and gives certainty to the public on the cost implications of them continuing to assist in reducing pollution.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Barry Cowen: It is not really leading from the front when it says it will look at it year-on-year and give the public no indication of what the implications will be over the next to ten to 12 years. That is the point the ESRI made. Professor FitzGerald also made the pertinent point that it is regressive in its present format and that needs to be addressed in putting forward a policy or giving a pathway...