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Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We know about the European Green Deal with €1.8 trillion allocated to it. I am looking at the SEAI's accounts, which comprise government grants with a small proportion coming in through the BER. Is the State missing out on European funding? Is it drawing down everything that is available to us? What can be expected when it comes to European funding? Is the SEAI concerned about...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: That would not be obvious from the SEAI's accounts-----

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: -----because it is a facilitator. Is there a direct relationship for the SEAI in drawing down funding?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Walsh give us a note on that? I think the committee would find it useful.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: How is that achieved outside of local authorities or approved housing bodies?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Just to pick up on the point that the Chair made, I asked if the amount allocated to local authorities was sufficient. The feedback that I am getting from local authority is that the amount that is being allocated for the retrofitting with local authority is approximately €10,000 short of what is required and it does not have the capacity to raise that from any other source. Could...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: In addition, we need to know the scale of what is needed so that we can match one against the other and try to get the kind of ambition up to the level that it needs to be. The last issue is the SEAI's new premises. It was said it was future-proofed in terms of staffing numbers. What staffing number can be accommodated there? Is working from home or a hybrid model of being factored into...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Can I come back to that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is highly unusual to see accounts and financial statements like this and the fact that there are a number of issues. The previous Committee of Public Accounts did a piece of work on some of the universities, and UL was one of them. If I recall correctly, there were issues with people terminating an employment and being taken on as consultants afterwards. Some of that had to do with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: On the severance agreement, it strikes me that the Department of Education would have a role here. Does that Department pick up on this or is it notified? Or is it something we need to do in addition to the Comptroller and Auditor General drawing attention to it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is a very useful response, which obviously follows on from our hearing and some issues that we had asked to follow up. That is always very helpful. Page 5 gives information with regard to tolls and the M50 e-Flow system, with figures for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. These are very similar to some of the figures I got back by way of parliamentary questions. I believe, however, that they...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Before I speak to this, will we be coming back to No. 1119? On this item, I am unsure about the S class contributions. My understanding is the scope section would have identified issues and RTÉ paid all the PRSI at the A class rate and paid its share of the employee class. Can RTÉ clarify the position in regard to the S class contributions, which it appears to be retaining? I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We are all acutely aware of the number of claims. I am sure the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is doing its best to adjudicate on and reduce those claims. They are over and above the €1.73 billion estimate we have been talking about. There are a substantial number of those claims. I agree entirely with the Chair on the points we raised. We made a specific effort to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Regarding the question of staffing, I keep saying that a contract is a two-way thing. There is an obligation on the contractor's side to carry out the project as it was outlined. That would have meant having sufficient staff working on the site. I would like us to ask specifically if a counterclaim is being taken, or considered, in respect of non-compliance on the contractor's side.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I know people get excited about things but this is something I watch very closely. I have a particular interest in it. It is very useful to have the response.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: No, I like going through the records. I am one of these nerds. Something that jumped out at me is the statement that there is a significant appetite for high quality online cultural material. There definitely is. The pilot cultural digitisation scheme from 2017 to 2022 will be continued. There is also the digitisation of the 1926 census, which several of us have raised over the years....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There was a huge digitisation project when they were moved to the new public records office. There was downtime for a couple of years. It has transformed things in the North. There is a good relationship between the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the National Archives. There was an announcement but when you start to look at the timelines, you see they are not very clear....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There are a good few of them in Portlaoise.