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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Can I just ask-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. I will come back in.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I want to address my questions to the Department and I will start specifically on swimming pools, the swimming pool programme, and what metrics the Department uses. Does it have a wall planner about it? I know that going way back the optimum is one swimming pool per 50,000 people. I know swimming pools are costly to run, and they do not make money, but they are a necessary facility. For...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Where are they going and what is the criteria?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: That does not necessarily always capture it. For example, in my area at the moment, Swim Ireland, in collaboration with Intel and Kildare County Council, has a pop-up pool. There are 74,000 people in the catchment area for that pop-up pool. It is daft. A person might only be five minutes or 5 km away from a private swimming pool. For example, if someone in my area wants to book a swim,...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: What will happen to this? Will we see the same kind of thing where a Minister who happens to be in that particular ministerial position ends up with the largest share of the money going to his or her constituency? Will this plan be based on objectively allocating resources in a transparent and geographically fair way?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I have another question regarding reputational damage in sport. I understand the remit of Sport Ireland is to develop sports. This issue came up when I was on the sports committee regarding the Football Association of Ireland, FAI. It was blindingly obvious there was a problem and I was the one who looked for the FAI governance arrangements to be considered by the sports committee at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I understand codes. We are brilliant at self-regulation, but then we discover that self-regulation sometimes does not cut the mustard when there is an obvious problem. What tools will be used to ensure the governance codes are enforced rather than voluntarily adopted?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Does Sport Ireland look across the spectrum? Very recently we had an example where there was a stay on some of the funding for the FAI. The funding in question was retained by the Department. I am sorry to keep going on about the FAI but it is such a good example of where failure can happen. At the same time, funding was being allocated for UL, but perhaps I am wrong about this and am...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: On the amount of funding that is allocated by Sport Ireland to the FAI is a very small in proportion to the FAI income. Would the governance code capture the other side of it? I am just using this as an example because one could equally see the same thing with other sports. Would it capture difficulties such as those that emerged, which would not be within the envelope of funding the came...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: What is the gender make-up?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I wish the FAI and the Irish football team well over the next three or four days. That could make a sizeable difference in the future. It is because we all care about it that we want the governance to be right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It is the university sector again. Was this also identified in previous audits or was it a one-off occurrence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: In the table on page 2, the claims that jump out are the big ones. There were 389 claims for Mountjoy Prison with an estimated liability of €14 million. There were 102 claims against the Portlaoise Prison campus. It is a lower number of claims but the potential liability is €12.9 million. It would be useful to pick out a few of these and ask the SCA to expand on the nature...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: We have had good information in the past where one can see whether the trajectory of claims for trips, falls and things like that is downward. If there is something that is standing out, we should see it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The correspondence states: "I clearly stated that the Department of Social Protection creates a biometric template of each photograph that is taken during the SAFE registration process, for the purpose of comparing that photograph against the other photographs held by the Department." In essence, the correspondence is saying it is not biometrics that are being used but in recent days it was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The Data Protection Commissioner had a report recently. Mr. Martin McMahon, who has corresponded with the committee, made a complaint to the Data Protection Commission, which found in his favour. The Data Protection Commissioner has not been silent on this. This has been-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The Department of Social Protection counterclaimed within the past few years. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner made its views on biometric data known. The Department challenged that. I cannot remember how it was finalised but there is no doubt that the Data Protection Commission made findings on the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It might be useful for us to get the most recent response from the Data Protection Commission to the case that was taken.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I will raise my points by way of parliamentary questions. I was just seeking information regarding geographical indication and why it is under-used. It is probably not a matter for the committee.