Results 22,801-22,820 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: On the review referred to in the first sentence, instead of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform trying to convene the various interested parties, the approach that appears to have been adopted looked at individual organisations, units of Government or Departments in isolation. I think that was a test that almost predetermined the outcome. We saw that the Central Statistics...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The Indecon report stated that if the service was to be dispensed with-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: -----there should be something in place beforehand. Now we have a vacuum of information and obviously the CSO, for example, will be relying on the information it had from that source for several years. However, at some point, the information will not be accepted by EUROSTAT. Then there is the cost involved. I cannot get my head around the way this was handled.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I know something about this issue. It relates to a facility that was to be built for students. A levy was collected for a considerable period and then increased. Students agreed to pay it in return for getting this facility. When the contract was awarded and work had started, it was discovered that the costs exceeded the original contract amount. I do not know how the tender system...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: On the next page of the document, regarding the next steps, it is stated that following the decision of the governing authority to terminate the contract for the construction of the student centre, a student facilities project advisory group was established to make recommendations to the governing authority on the development of student facilities for the immediate, medium and longer term....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The levy had a definite purpose. It is being mentioned that little pods will be put in here and there and outside seating and that kind of stuff. The university has grown and there have been some great additions made to it to date. The number of students has increased in recent years from approximately 5,000 to about 15,000 now. Student facilities should be improving as the institution...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, but it was scaled up in about 2015 or 2016. I cannot remember exactly when that happened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: People will have paid this levy, gone through the university and possibly even ended up doing a PhD, never mind being undergraduates. There must be some certainty about how this money will be spent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I originally raised this issue when the show was being advertised and I do not think that it had commenced so it was not in the time when there were difficulties with illness or things like that. RTÉ repeatedly told us in its letter how cash strapped it was and said, "We must try new things, to grow and sustain all we are obliged to do." I have no problem with innovation and trying new...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: On point 4, do we have anything to gauge these rates of LADs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. I presume that this relates to the contractual obligation on the other side, which is an issue that I have raised on several occasions. I recall that we have been told that this will not adjudicated on until the whole thing is completed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It is not going to be done on an incremental basis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I am just wondering. We are being told that this is going to be one of the projects and that it will be closely looked at for learning lessons from other similar projects. Some will be lessons about how not to go about a tendering process. Largely it will be about that, but it would be quite useful to know if there are similar projects in other jurisdictions so we could see how that kind...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Are they likely to run out of money this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I may well have asked this before, but how is that handled? Is there a Supplementary Estimate if they were to run out of money in July, for example? I am just picking that month out of thin air.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: This probably does not take-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: That €1.2 billion that they are up to at this stage does not take account of some of the additional claims.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (25 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform and or upgrade enforcement sanctions and actions that SIPO may take in respect of non-disclosure and or non-compliance of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995. [3677/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2023)
Catherine Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the first tranche of rapid-delivery homes will be delivered; the total estimated cost per rapid delivery home, including the cost of connecting them to services such as water and electricity; if he will provide a schedule of meetings that the OPW has had with an organisation (details supplied); if he will include the...