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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (23 Apr 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Do local authorities have to continue to put forward business cases as to why they need to build, for example, social and affordable housing? The infrastructure guidelines state, "Where programmes of investment are composed of a high number of similar" schemes, as in the case of housing, a strategic assessment can be done all at once. Can local authorities such as Mayo County Council do a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: My understanding is that, if housing projects are very closely related, there is an opportunity to bring forward a single application to the Department of housing. I will have to check that for the Deputy. I will do that. I believe the Department of housing will be eager to avoid cases in which two or three different housing projects offering different forms of housing come under the one...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: One minute the Deputy is talking about overspend and the next he is talking about cyberattacks. The Deputy pretends - I say pretends because I find him entirely unconvincing in his arguments - to be making the case for the stronger State and the State doing more. I thought he was a left-of-centre politician when it came to the role of the State, but he does not appear to give the effect of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Aontú want to give people confidence in the delivery of public infrastructure. This confidence has been radically eroded by the lack of Government prudence and the lack of Government ability to hold the system to account. A Minister tasked a civil servant with creating a tender for the national children's hospital. There are people who are responsible for the spending disaster that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Is the Deputy going to make reference to all the flood relief programmes that work? Is he going to acknowledge any of them? He brought up ventilators a moment ago. He is just the sort of Deputy who would be excoriating the Government if the ventilators were not available in the first place. We were in a crisis situation at that point-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: A person would lose their job-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: We were trying to save lives at that point.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: If it was a private company there would be loss of jobs.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I can understand why he is behaving the way he is, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Deflect.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: -----it is absolutely fine. The Government was trying to get ventilators at that time because we were in the middle of a global health emergency. It is frankly below the Deputy to bring into a debate like this the attempts that were being made to source ventilators for our country in the middle of a health emergency.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Ones that would have worked.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I acknowledge, and have done on many occasions, the mistakes and things we got wrong-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: But not accountability.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: -----in relation to the national children's hospital, but we will hear that from the Deputy. For a man who pretends to believe the Irish State can be the source of more answers to many of our difficulties-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I will conclude on this. We will never hear the Deputy acknowledge that the Government, the State can do anything right-----