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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: About how many?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: What was that? Just give me the number.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Chair, can we hear an answer to the Deputy's first question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I meant the question the Deputy asked about the valuation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I am asking about the earlier question asked by Deputy McAuliffe in respect of overpaying.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: There are a range of different issues here. There are different tables. There are some items on one table that are not on the other and I am confused about that. Obviously I need to go through it further but, for example, nowhere in Kildare is listed in any of those tables except the ones where the cost is associated. I do not know why that would be the case when they are in this table...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to come back in on a couple of issues. All local authorities were asked to identify buildings within their area. I am aware of buildings in my constituency of Kildare North that were identified but were not used and then the local authority was surprised with other ones that were used. I completely agree with the Chair about the Department being overburdened but I think we dealt...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: We should absolutely acknowledge that. My understanding though is that we seem to be taking a very short-term approach to this and that short-term approach is this outsourcing. The Department would have some measure of control by having buildings it leases long-term or owns. Why has it not taken up some of the ideas put forward by the local authorities? This would require a bit of work but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The other thing is that 4,000 people now have status in accommodation but cannot move because there is nowhere for them to move to. This obviously knits into the housing crisis. This would be a substantially different issue if we did not have a housing crisis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Which figures are these?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I have read about the cost of one of these in the newspapers today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: For what it is worth.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: No, it is on that list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Agreed
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: One of the difficulties is that things are not coterminous. For example, there may well be a fair distribution based on the population of CHO 8, but it may not be the case that that distribution is fair when it comes to looking at it from the point of view of the allocation for individual counties. It is a postcode lottery with a lot of HSE services. For example, CHO 7 is the area I am in....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Given the age profile in Laois and Offaly, you can see that that will be a particular problem. The CHO areas are problematic from that point of view. For example, when it comes to GP services, we can measure them on the basis of CHO area, but you would not get on a GP's list for love nor money in my area. That has not been possible for the past year. There are people presenting in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [22919/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)
Catherine Murphy: In the context of the strategy, the Commissioner has responsibility for the deployment of resources, for example. We know the number of regions has been reduced, from six to four, and the aim is to have 700 to 800 gardaí per division. That assumes there is an equality of service. There are many metrics but it assumes there is some degree of equality of service throughout the country....