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- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I missed that reply. Will Mr. Doyle be writing to the regulator?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I thank the witness.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I thank the witnesses for participating in this meeting. Mr. Doyle and I know each other from our previous lives, mine with the Irish Road Haulage Association and his in the then Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. I fundamentally disagree with his statement that HAP is providing homes. It does not provide homes. Only building houses does that. HAP gives the applicant the means...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Yes. Recently, representatives from An Bord Pleanála appeared before this committee. Its chairman, Mr. Dave Walsh, informed us that its 2020 legal fees reached €8.5 million. I would have assumed on the basis that fewer houses were built and fewer applications were received that this figure would have been less than that for 2019, but it was actually 60% more. The board is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: No. I am asking what the Department has done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Did Mr. Doyle say a planning court?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I am sorry, but did I hear Mr. Doyle correctly? Did he say that the Department was considering a planning court?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Is that what Mr. Doyle said?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: That is not the question I asked. The question I put to Mr. Doyle-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Okay. The Planning Regulator appeared before my group, the Regional Group, recently. He is insisting there are minimum densities contained in the guidelines. He could not tell me where they were but he is insisting they are there. Quite evidently, they are not there, and that is a big factor. Representatives of An Bord Pleanála have appeared before this committee, with its chairman...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I have a number of questions on the subject. If Mr. Fraser answers them quite directly, I will not keep anybody very long. I will ask him to clarify one thing. He said earlier that Mr. Watt did not take the pay increase. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Did he waive it completely or just for a period of time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: No, Mr. Fraser made the statement and said that Mr. Watt did not take the pay increase. Did he defer it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Is it Mr. Fraser's understanding that Mr. Watt's pension calculations will be based on the salary without the increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: The answer then is a misnomer. It was deferred on the basis of public pressure, end of story. We can take it that Mr. Watt received the €81,000 increase but has deferred taking it, rather than having Mr. Fraser making statements that Mr. Watt did not take the pay increase. This is a public forum and we need to be clear. Is that fair to say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: It would have been, absolutely. Mr. Fraser might answer "Yes" or "No" to my next question. Does he agree that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform normally operates a challenge function to requests for salary increases across the Civil Service and public service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Who was the Secretary General in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform when student nurses sought an increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: Okay. Can we assume that no matter who it is, however, the Secretary General in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would challenge any possible request for an increase in the Civil Service or public service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: I have never seen a request go unchallenged. One would, therefore, assume that would be the case. Where was the challenge by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to this salary increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)
Verona Murphy: There was, therefore, no challenge or scrutiny by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?