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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We will try to get some sort of definitive answer on what is needed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: No. 1279B is from the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, dated 31 May 2022 enclosing the minute of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of our report on the examination of the 2019 and 2020 appropriation accounts, Vote 29 – Environment, Climate and Communications, and expenditure on the national broadband plan. It was welcome that all five of the committee...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to find out the actual number of cases and to find out if litigation fees have been incurred already. It would be possible to calculate or to see the extent of those at the end of the process but it would be no harm to have an idea of them at this stage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It does, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is to do with the scope. The other issue in this is that the Eversheds Sutherland’s contractor review process in RTÉ reviewed all active contractors at the time. There may well have been former contractors and a scope investigation will not exclude former contractors and it is, therefore, important that we ask RTÉ about the number of former contractors and if they are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I believe that when it gets into the stratosphere, people start losing perspective. Otherwise, this correspondence provides detailed responses to 20 questions arising from our meeting with the Department, which is welcome. I propose that we note and publish this correspondence and that we make it available to the relevant sectoral committees as there is a wide range of information contained...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is how we go about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It strikes me that if the Deputy were to document the questions and write to the committee, we could then ask the questions of the HSE. It would begin to address the issue that is in our remit.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: No other items of correspondence have been flagged for consideration today so we will move onto the work programme. On 23 June, we will engage with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to examine its oversight of local government expenditure of central government funds. The Department has confirmed availability for the meeting and the Association of Irish Local...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The passport issue is not the ongoing passport issue, which we all know from our emails is never-ending. There has been investment and it is this particular aspect we will examine. If we are to invest further, then technology should do the job. I am sure somebody will not be able to stop themselves from asking about passports because it is causing such a monumental increase in our...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I imagine the Remy Farrell report should be completed at that stage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: One of the issues we raised previously was the cost of the judicial reviews.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It was one third of its overall budget.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We will note what Deputy Hourigan has said.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I do not think there is any expectation that we could stray into individual cases. As there are no other matters that members wish to raise on the work programme, that concludes our consideration of the work programme for today. The last item on the public agenda for today is any other business. Do members wish to raise any other matters? As they do not, we will now briefly go into...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (23 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which he expects the remote working Bill 2022 to be enacted; and if he will provide an update on same. [33296/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a petition regarding luxturna; and if he will consider making provision for reimbursement in respect of the drug. [33468/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Since the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform pulled the plug on Benefacts, a name that will not be familiar to many of the public but that provided a valuable public service, I have been trying to figure out exactly what the Department has against open, transparent and comprehensive data. Benefacts was set up in 2014 at the request of the Department to provide transparency on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We had the Secretary General of the Department before the Committee of Public Accounts and I took the opportunity to speak to him about this. I raised the issue of the report the Department commissioned from Indecon. Before he closed it down, I asked him whether he had read the report and he told me he had not, which I thought that was quite extraordinary. He said he had got a briefing on...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "— resolves that sections 2 to 4, 6 to 12 and 17 of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 39 of 1998) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2022 and ending on 29th June, 2023; and — in the absence of any specific...