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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We need to get the Ann and Barry version of this with regard to what is in place, where the deficiency is and what the Department is trying to do to now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Is that the earliest we can have the meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There was the Department of housing and LIHAF-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Prefab accommodation and school transport are two issues I am concerned about. I thought we had seen the back of long-term prefab accommodation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Some of that is to do with political decisions as opposed to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Projects have been taken to design stage, which are really at the end of the design stage and ready to go, but they are pulled then. It is not the fault of those who went through that process. It is a political decision.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: If I remember correctly, there were buildings purchased because there was a line. Am I correct on that?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Dara Calleary: I welcome this year's budget provisions for enterprise and for our Department more widely. I commend the Minister, Deputy Burke, and the officials in our Department on the work they have engaged in with the Department of public expenditure in recent weeks to secure a package worth €1 billion plus for our Department next year. The Minister has reflected on how far we have come over...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Debate adjourned.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 9 p.m. go dtí 10.30 a.m., Dé Déardaoin, an 3 Deireadh Fómhair 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 9 p.m. until 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, 3 October 2024.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to come back on more parts of the budget. Obviously, budgets for infrastructure are welcome. I have touched previously on the fact that Irish Water let 350 workers and subcontractors go because there was no work going on around the country. If we are talking about building houses, obviously, we have to make sure we have the infrastructure in place. Roads, sewers,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Martin Heydon: The hope is to extend it.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome that, if it is going to happen, because a lot of farmers have raised it today. I urge the Minister of State to try to do that if he can. One issue that has come out today, and the devil is always in the detail and things might be said that are right or wrong, is the €9 million for some sort of pouches for people to put their phones into in schools. I would like...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice. The Minister, Deputy Burke, is sharing with the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary.