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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: There would be an estimate within ELS, however, that would seek to give a figure within that €708 million to refer to and account for health inflation in the delivery of the same services as those we got last year, that is, to stand still.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: That is why we need the components.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: But we do not know that. The Deputy is saying we want those details.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: We are going around in circles. The bottom line is that the witnesses were brought before this committee for the purpose of discussing the standstill costs. The main issue members have with those is that there is not a breakdown or the detail required to identify what components contribute to that figure in its entirety. Regarding the Government decision to allocate €22.5 billion to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: I thank members and the witnesses for their presentations, the manner in which they sought to answer questions and the detail they went into. The main thrust of our ask is to ensure there is an effort to provide the committee and, by association, the House, with the components within ELS provisions for next year and that they be divided into three, in each Department. It is incumbent on us...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: Is the Deputy referring to the PBO paper on the existing levels of service?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: Mr. Kinnane might inform the committee secretariat when that review will be and when the Department will respond to it. The ask being made by the committee is that the breakdown needs to be in similar components to what it was the case previously, and we then might get clarification on the questions Deputy Doherty is asking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: Apologies have been received from An Cathaoirleach, Deputy Flanagan, who cannot be here today. Today we welcome Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, director and head of the Geneva office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, who will brief the committee on the global humanitarian landscape, provide an overview of the office's vital role in the global...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: I thank Mr. Rajasingham for his kind remarks regarding Ireland's contribution. We will now take questions from members, starting with Deputy Carthy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. Rajasingham for meeting various members of the committee today and comprehensively answering their questions. On behalf of the extended Oireachtas, I thank Mr. Rajasingham for the work done by his office especially, as many members said, considering the risk and danger. He and his colleagues put themselves in the line of danger. The information that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: This meeting is adjourned until Tuesday, 21 November, when we meet with Dóchas to discuss its reaction to budget 2024, official development assistance, spending in 2024 and a look ahead at COP28. Dóchas will update the committee on humanitarian situations relating to its remit.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister for being here and for his response and the detail contained within it. I acknowledge the commitment made that despite the lack of funding or progress on this project in 2022 and 2023, it will be considered in the context of the forthcoming allocations for 2024. I again note the role to be played by TII. I note the project's inclusion in the national development plan....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: I should have mentioned that this would also advance the project relating to the high cross at Durrow Abbey and the commitment made by the Office of Public Works to advance that offering as an attraction. However, it cannot be progressed while the existing road infrastructure is in place. It is also awaiting progress on this matter. That should also be part of the consideration of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: I seek the reinstatement of the new section of the N52 between the N4 interchange at Kilbeggan and the Tullamore bypass. The Kilbeggan to Kinnegad section of the east–west or Dublin–Galway connection was opened in 2005 and the Tullamore bypass was opened in 2009. The next stage of that development was to link the two to assist with regional development. Having completed the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an overview of the €5.1 billion capital investment in housing in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on efforts to tackle vacancy and dereliction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48893/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: International Agreements (9 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been analysis conducted into the impact to Irish and EU headquarter firms, compared to companies in other jurisdictions, due to the varied timelines of implementing undertaxed payment rules, agreed by the OECD in July 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49088/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Concerns for Sourcing Winter Animal Feed in Shannon Callows Area: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: Apologies I could not be here earlier. I was attending the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach for Committee Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023. I welcome our guests and thank them for making themselves available to the committee to place on the public record the difficulties they have met, again, this year, as they have on many previous occasions. They...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: International Agreements (8 Nov 2023)

Barry Cowen: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance if he still considers the implementation of Pillar 2 to be a global project, given US Treasury Secretary Yellen's comments; how she communicated same to him and the Minister for Public Expenditure,National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and president of the Eurogroup at the Ecofin meeting which he attended; the matters for the OECD and the US...