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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Moloney can categorically say it was not ever used.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The analytics side of Benefacts was quite a powerful tool. It was very useful for internal audit, for example. Tusla, for example, expressed an interest in its continuation for precisely that reason, the internal audit process. Was anything done to assess the impact of the loss of Benefacts on Tusla and how that might manifest? Funders such as the Department of Health, the HSE, the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have to say, I have come to the conclusion Benefacts was too transparent. We have this supposedly open Government approach but I do not see how that can manifest without tools such as this one, which was working, usable and being used and which had potential other uses. When it comes to value for money, starting a project, getting it to that point and then ceasing it seems to be the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We got correspondence last week in regard to the very large number of section 38 and section 39 organisations. I would say they make up a sizeable portion of the not-for-profit sector, at least in terms of the finances. I presumed Benefacts would have had potential to identify asset ratios and so on in that kind of scenario.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously that overview is gone now with the database having ceased. I want to move on to the business case for the national maternity hospital. Regarding the single lot multi-supplier framework for sourcing independent reviews, is there a schedule of preferred providers? Who is on that list and how does a company get onto the list?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I asked about the multi-supplier framework for sourcing independent reviews. Is there a list of preferred providers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I ask Mr. Moloney to please do that. Were weaknesses identified in the business case for the national maternity hospital?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I received a reply to a parliamentary question from the Department of Health that would indicate there are some weaknesses. It is very important that this is looked at.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. This is with regard to the Eversheds Sutherland report on RTÉ. There is of gun to the head of the staff for this Friday. Pension entitlements, maternity leave and all the other issues have not been fully worked out. We should contact the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications as a matter of urgency to say this is not fair. People are being asked to make a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: They do not have adequate information.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: RTÉ has not closed off the information on entitlements. It is not fair to ask people to make a decision. Given that this has been one of the issues we have pursued, it would be remiss of us not to point that out.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the meetings that he and or his officials have had with a company (details supplied) to date in 2022; the schedule should include online, phone conference and in-person meetings, date of meeting and topics that were discussed; and if he and or his officials have plans to or will schedule further...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Centres (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's policy in respect of supporting data centres in Ireland in the context of the decarbonisation and digitalisation of Ireland's economy and society; and the steps that he has taken to ensure that these transitions are complimentary and in harmony with environmental policy. [52555/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of data centres in Ireland that are not connected to the grid and that use on-site fossil fuel to generate power. [52554/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the usage statistics for the individual stations of the Limerick bike scheme that are available between 2016 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52621/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the membership figures of the public bike scheme in counties Limerick, Galway and Cork in each year between 2016 and 2022. [52622/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost per annum between 2016 and 2022 to run the public bike scheme in counties Limerick, Clare and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52623/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current membership figures for the Waterford public bike scheme; and the total cost to date of the scheme and details on the operational contractor for this scheme. [52624/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the total expenditure by his Department on pension payments to former civil servants in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; if he will also provide in tabular form the total payments made to former civil servants including a breakdown of the grade they held upon retirement and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of the number of leases and annual expenditure on same for primary and secondary school buildings by county; and if she will provide the details of the organisation she holds the lease with. [52550/22]