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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: 539. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [23783/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: 622. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) with receive a hospital appointment. [23959/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: 755. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a cost to the State for withdrawing preferred bidder status if assurances in the final contract for the national broadband plan are deemed to be insufficient by the State and the contract is not signed; the cost involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23365/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: 756. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the procurement process for the national broadband plan is still deemed a competition, despite a preferred bidder being chosen; if the State has the ability to abandon the procurement process without a cost incurring on the State for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23366/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: 759. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the term, the bidder, in the third paragraph of the context of options outlined in the 2019 national broadband development contingency plan options document refers to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23486/19]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: We are not all like that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: The witnesses said that the electorate might get poor fiscal policy, which is not to say that it deserves or wants it. Deputy Lahart may have been correct in saying this is similar to the soft landing point in the economic cycle. The difference now, apart from voices on the Opposition benches and an over-reliance on regulators, is that we have at our disposal EU fiscal rules, departmental...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: He specifically stated that no other project would be forgone as a result of this overspend and that all of the moneys needed to meet the demands of the overspend would be met from future revenues. The FAC is saying that future revenues and the forecasting of the Government lacks credibility and is irresponsible. I want to know if it is irresponsible and lacks credibility to say that such...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: Mr. Tutty finds it difficult to say anything other than the obvious which would be concurring with me, which may be seen to be political from Mr Tutty's perspective. I am acting, however, on behalf of those who put me here to allow the electorate to be informed of the reality.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: I thank Mr. Tutty.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: Of course.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: The revenue the State was receiving from property-related activities in recent times and ten years ago was not a bad thing.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: It assisted in putting much of the infrastructure in place today that could take advantage of the upturn when it came.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: It was a volatile income, however.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: The State was reliant on the Opposition benches to point that out then.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: There are many more avenues, authors and fora where that is now being said, and is not being recognised or taken on board. What have we learned from the past?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: Exactly.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: They have been breached.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: A multi-annual health budget was recommended in 2015. It was promised, but it has not been delivered on.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax Review: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Barry Cowen: Is it that 20% of properties are reducing sufficiently in value that they compensate for the other 80%?