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Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am very sure. The secret service ended when the IRB eventually in 1948 collapsed itself. That was the only secret service, or those who thought they were the secret services at that stage. There may have been people operating, as I mentioned, in Britain in the 1920s. That was it. I am not going to delay the passage of the Bill. This is a procedural matter but the procedures beforehand...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I certainly support Deputy Ó Snodaigh. It is hard to say that we are debating this here. Debating is about scrutinising and passing it. The Minister said it is before committees and always accountable. That €2 million can be in this area and we do not know what it is about. I am picking up on what the Minister said in reply to me when I spoke to him first about the...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure the Minister is right in what he has said.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I am right.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure the Minister is right.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I know I am right. I am wary of making points with absolute certainty but the point I am making to the Deputy is that the State is directly involved in building homes. It does so through local authorities. The majority of those 11,938 homes would have been built directly by local authorities, which is the State. That is the argument I am making to the Deputy. To suggest the State is not...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Question put and declared carried.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

SECTION 1

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendment No. 1 has been ruled out of order.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Amendment No. 1 not moved.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Question proposed: "That section 1 stand part of the Bill."

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister said, while wrapping up on Second Stage, that Supplementary Estimates are brought to and debated at all the relevant committees. As I have said repeatedly, there is one Estimate that is not, even though it nowadays falls under the group of Estimates. It is a small figure that can be buried wherever it needs to be buried. The relevant amount is €2 million. There is no...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank all Deputies for the contributions they have made. I will respond now to a number of the matters that were raised in this debate, including the issue of accountability in relation to the huge amounts of money that I am asking the Dáil to vote on this afternoon. I thank Deputies for recognising the importance of the passing of this legislation but I would emphasise that in order...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not necessarily the case that the budget will go up the next year-----

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: But the money is not lost. The point that was being made or suggested was that because this is a carryover, the money is being handed back but that is wrong. In fact, because it is a carryover, it is being retained within the Department but spent in a different year. The absence of a carryover would mean the money is not being spent in the Department but the presence of a carryover means...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The cost overruns and lack of value for money evident in the context of the Appropriation Bill are a major issue. One of the most glaring issues that arose in 2024 is the persistent problem of cost overruns. Projects across multiple Departments routinely exceed their initial budgets, often by substantial margins. For instance, the Department of Defence has seen numerous projects balloon in...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Martin Browne: When I hear of a carryover of expenditure of almost €130 million related to transport, I have to ask why are the people of County Tipperary who live along the route of the N24 faced with continuing funding uncertainty regarding the N24 project? Both parts of this project have in recent years been subject to uncertainty. Tipperary County Council has been forced to write to the...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In some ways, this is a formality we go through at the end of each year. As I understand it, it is the final authorisation of the expenditure of money throughout the year and of money that will be carried over that has not been spent. It is an opportunity to dwell a little bit on the issue of the expenditure of the enormous amount of public money totalling €86 billion. It is the...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will take a minute at the start because the likelihood is that this is the last time I will speak in this Chamber after a very long period. I express my sincere thanks to the voters of Dublin North-West who placed their trust in me and voted for me over a period of 32 years. I will say that I am exceptionally grateful to them for doing that, and I have been honoured to represent the...