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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Properties (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising roofs of buildings under his Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25582/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will develop a part-time education path for pharmacy technicians to pursue full qualification to work as a pharmacist. [25574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising roofs of buildings under his Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25589/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Properties (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising roofs of buildings under her Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider recognising and permitting non-European Economic Area persons that are qualified to work here, in view of the shortage of fully-qualified pharmacists here and if he has consulted with his colleagues in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in respect of expanding the critical-skills visa to facilitate this cohort of worker....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising roofs of buildings under his Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25590/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Properties (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising roofs of buildings under his Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25581/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Properties (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 408. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising roofs of buildings under her Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25594/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome Mr. Moloney and wish him the best of luck in his new role. I want to focus on two areas, Benefacts and public-private partnerships, PPPs. Benefacts was the only organisation drawing together data from audited financial statements from thousands of non-profits. I think it dealt with somewhere in the region of €7.4 billion and, very often, it would receive funding from...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Was a business case done with regard to the duplication or the replication of another database when a database existed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Can we see that review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: This was a not-for-profit and it was heavily used. The Department is now going to have to create a new database. What is the cost of doing that and is that coming from the Department of Rural and Community Development or elsewhere?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The public have a right to information as well. We have this supposedly open government approach. My distinct impression is that, at best, we are going to end up with a fragmented system where we will have a piece from the Charities Regulator, we will have gaps because Benefacts covered a much wider remit and we will not have the oversight. It is as if there is a management of information...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The Department had a report commissioned by Indecon and it went beyond the remit it was set. Why was that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of the review of the state aid.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will come back to the Department by way of parliamentary questions because I do not have the time to go through all of the points on it. When it was set up, was the issue of state aid something that was considered at that stage? It seems ludicrous that the Department would allow it to run for six or seven years and not have done that if it was going to be a risk. Those kinds of risks...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is that the case now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: This was a not-for-profit. Is this now a market function as opposed to a public right to information function? That is a public good, surely.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Moloney said the Department consulted with the various other Departments. Instead of going through all of the rigmarole of asking a lot of parliamentary questions, can we have the responses from the various Departments in the form of a note? That would be helpful, rather than going the long way around to get that input.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will come back to that later. I want to ask about public-private partnerships, PPPs. In Mr. Moloney’s opening statement, he talked about the advantages but he said nothing much about the disadvantages. I remember that at the previous Committee of Public Accounts, of which I was a member, many of us did not conclude what Mr. Moloney concluded about value for money. For example,...