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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: That is different from what Deputy Doherty has said.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: That needs to be corrected. The Deputy made a statement that he had refused to come into the committee. That is incorrect-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: That is not what the Deputy Doherty said, and the Deputy needs to correct that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: I was just agreeing with-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: As far as I can see, there is a political game being played. This is selective memory by a couple of members of this committee with regard to what is said and what is not said. The reality is that the other side of what the Chairman just said is that there has been bona fide attempt by the committee to organise with the other committee chairpersons to deal with this definitively, as...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: May I point something out to you?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: May I point something out to you? A member of this committee within the past 15 or 20 minutes made an assertion that the Secretary General refused to come before this committee. This has been refuted. You yourself helped with that. You made no attempt to correct that statement or ask the member who made it to correct it. You need to deal with this even-handedly, which you have not done...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: I am the one who had to put a point of order down to try to correct something that was frankly false.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: Chairman, you need to step in here on what is fact and what is not. I do not think you have done so, and this is an example of it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: This narrative-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: -----is one-way and needs to be-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (21 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: I want to make a suggestion based on what everyone has said this morning. It is that the Chairman would have a conversation with the Chairs of the Committee of Public Accounts, the Committee on Health, and the Committee on Budgetary Oversight on the basis of having a hearing held in this committee, and inviting the Secretary General and members of those committees to participate in that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (19 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approved primary and post-primary school capital projects at various stages of construction and planning and design in Waterford city and county; the estimated combined cost of these projects; and the number of other applications received by the planning and building unit from County Waterford at pre-approval stage. [8192/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of prefab units in situ at primary and secondary schools in County Waterford as of 31 December 2018; the number of prefabs in place across schools in County Waterford in 2008 and 2013; and the average rental cost per prefab unit. [8193/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (12 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the targeted financial aid or compensation measures considered at national and EU level to support Irish beef farmers in view of the effects of perceived already uneconomical prices at market from calves to weanlings to finished cattle in the context of a deal or no-deal Brexit. [6750/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Exports (12 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific market-oriented engagement that has taken place between his Department and the agencies under his remit since the Brexit referendum with a view to opening new lines of export for the beef sector; the successes achieved to date; the options to be prioritised or explored next; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Preparations (12 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the latest assessments made by his Department of the potential impact of a hard or soft Brexit on the beef sector here at primary producer level; and if average farm income reduction calculations have been made based on both best case and worst case scenarios. [6752/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Preparations (12 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted an analysis by county of the potential consequences of Brexit on the profile of farming types and producer and livestock numbers; and the impact of projected alterations in beef farming activity over the next number of years on local economies such as County Waterford (details supplied). [6753/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Positive Ageing Strategy (5 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 352. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the recent research conducted into the effects of rural isolation on the well-being of senior citizens particularly those living alone; the findings and recommendations arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5139/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rural Transport Services (5 Feb 2019)

John Deasy: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals he is considering and has discussed with other Departments with regard to providing practical and reliable transport systems to cater for persons in rural areas particularly senior citizens to which bus or taxi and hackney services are not readily accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5138/19]