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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for the briefing documentation they supplied. A number of issues and points have already been raised and made by my committee colleagues, especially around school transport. One particular issue crosses with special needs education. There is an ongoing issue with transportation to St. Augustine's School in Blackrock. A combination of school buses...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Is the teacher still required to present at the office?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: That is great. It is welcome. I will turn to prefabricated buildings, an issue that was raised by colleagues earlier. I will give an example from my constituency, of Gaelscoil Phádraig in Ballybrack, which has been waiting for almost 30 years. It is not all the Department's fault. It is also reliant on another school being built for Ballyowen Meadows Special School so there is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I am talking about across the country where we have temporary solutions for a school rolling on for 30 years. Surely the Department takes a look at those temporary sites with a view to utilising them on a more permanent basis with more permanent structures.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the witnesses. As it happens, for the 2020 financial statements we engaged in May 2022 and I was the first speaker in that engagement, too. Some interesting questions were asked then and some interesting answers given at that point. It appears we are still none the wiser from both opening statements from UL. We are not through it. There still seem to be more questions than...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: The Comptroller and Auditor General may not be aware of it, but perhaps Professor Kilcommins will. Was Professor Kilcommins aware of that transaction at that point?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: At the last engagement with UL at the Committee of Public Accounts, which I believe was in May 2023, assurances were given about property acquisition. It was stated that a new policy was in place to ensure the issues around the Dunnes Stores site could not happen again, that lessons had been learned and so forth, yet the Rhebogue site did not seem to follow any new policy. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: From the time of its inception in January, at what stage was the contract signed or approved?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: With the Chair's permission I have one more question. During my last engagement in May 2022, I asked Mr. Moynes, "Would the Department not have a view on the process undertaken, given the fact that it is State money and given how the site was acquired?" The site I enquired about was the Dunnes Stores site. We are now talking about the Rhebogue site, and his response to me at the time was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We all recognise the importance of the early learning sector. The St. Nicholas Montessori College in Dún Laoghaire told its staff and students last month that it is due to close. The St. Nicholas Montessori College had a very long and proud history of education in this sector and was one of the leading colleges in the country. Obviously this decision has taken staff and students, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the NTA representatives back. I thank them very much for their engagement and for the briefing material they supplied. I will focus on something we raised when they were here last year, namely, real-time information, which the NTA addressed in its annual report. It calls them disappearing buses; I call them phantom buses. Some fees have been levied at some of the operators, in...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate why Ms Graham does not want to focus on one operator, but the area where I live has quite a high level of the routes that Go-Ahead operates so she will forgive me saying that I receive many complaints about that particular operator. When I raised it last year, the reason given was Covid. I understand it is now recruitment issues. I appreciate that is a real issue right across...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms Graham. I have three minutes left. Mr. Ryan might send on a note on that. We did not get to him. I asked a parliamentary question on the Aircoach route 702 a few months ago. My understanding was that Aircoach would operate a 24-hour service from the airport - it does not matter whether it is once or twice an hour - but it has become a 6 a.m. to 8 p.m route. Passenger...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Ms Graham can see where I am coming from. A provider applied for a licence to operate a service. It got the licence and then, since the Covid-19 pandemic, reduced the level of service. It did not return to the level it was once at, and then it disappeared. Is that not of concern to the NTA? Would it not explore putting on another service if another application is made? I do not know...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I, too, welcome the State apology. It is necessary and very long overdue. As other Members have done, I welcome all the families here today. I hope last week's verdict of unlawful killing gives some degree of comfort and vindication to the families for the terrible loss they have suffered. I hope the inquest has provided some solace about what happened on the night when the families...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Apr 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 22. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the 60th annual Munich Security Conference. [8364/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 724. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the recruitment of general and paediatric nurses for 2024; if he is aware of any recruitment embargo by the HSE at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16482/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Cormac Devlin: ...to the committee. I might start with the issue of personnel, and senior management in particular. I understand there are regional commands in the northern, western, southern areas and in Dublin that are vacant. How many senior management posts are vacant at present?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Cormac Devlin: This is obviously very important and there has been some success in that in recent days. When the Commissioner gives us the information, it would be helpful to have it today. He will appreciate from our perspective, members are coming to us who are under investigation for a considerable time. Their being under investigation for such a long time without any real light at the end of the...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on rare diseases. I would like to welcome the commitment by the Minister to enhance the care and treatment for the more than 300,000 people in Ireland living with rare diseases. Efforts to expand screening of newborns with the new heel prick test is particularly welcome. I know that the new national rare disease plan is being developed...