Results 22,061-22,080 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I spoke about the main issue last week just before we went into private session. I am okay with this. I do not disagree with the Chair's points but I do not want to add anything.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I will make a point rather than propose a message to send back to the Department. We seem to be going around in circles on the National Maternity Hospital. If we are going to learn lessons from that, the place to start is with the national children's hospital. We are being stymied in our attempts to see the business case and so forth. That is the main issue I would raise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We know the figure we were given at the start for the build and fit-out costs. We are not far from exhausting the money for the build cost, but the hospital is not yet built. We are likely to see a Supplementary Estimate in respect of the final cost. I imagine that will happen next year because that is when the money will run out. How does that happen? It will have to be estimated at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: There is a wider issue here regarding the fact that we deal with a lot of these issues by way of inquiry; we do not catch them in real time. There is a perception of a saving, by virtue of the fact that we do not have organisations like for example, the Corporate Enforcement Agency that has been set up, properly resourced. It was guaranteed 16 members of the Garda but only has seven at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We are not a silo.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We have been given a figure for the very first item, which is the Tribunal to Inquire into Certain Planning Matters and Payments, which we are being told is €6.6 million and it started on 4 November 1997. The document we were provided with was the Tribunal to Inquire into Certain Planning Matter and Payments, Mahon 1997. I presume that is the same one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We are being told €6.6 million. The figure on this list is €135 million. This is not really giving us the information. There is a huge difference in those two amounts. My understanding is the State Claims Agency is used to advise the commissions rather than do the work. It is down to the parent Department. It is supposed to have the information. The State Claims Agency is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It came from that Department, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is 28 February 2019.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is not just a question of having the information. If we are talking about inquiries we need to ask how other countries do it. We have looked at other countries, like Australia, for example. They have an anti-corruption agency and an embedded inquiry system in what is quite a large agency. What it cost to set up was recouped in the first year. In fact, the particular agency we looked...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: No, we have not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Some of these are not going to be the same, but where there are people with deep pockets who are being inquired into, it can be problematic. It is not all like with like when it comes to looking at inquiries. However, the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, one, for example, was not under the commission of investigations heading. There was bespoke legislation and we need to have a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously progress has been made. I received a reply from the Department of Finance about the public side of it being audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. That is quite a large account that requires auditing. Somewhere in the region of €1 billion was invested. What additional resources would be put into the Comptroller and Auditor General's office in relation to a big...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: The private auditor is to do with the commercial side. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Has this been factored in for next year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: When the Department was before the committee a couple of weeks ago, I pursued it on this particular topic and it looked like the new entity was nearing completion. The Department told us at the time it could not give us the information. I do not see that there would be any reason we could not have full disclosure at this stage, a couple of weeks later. That is what I am seeking from the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Oct 2022)
Catherine Murphy: -----to those who formerly had a stake and will not longer have a stake.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ukraine War (8 Nov 2022)
Catherine Murphy: 73. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied buildings that may be suitable for use in the context of meeting the accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. [54225/22]