Results 24,101-24,120 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: I absolutely agree. Obviously, there are some good digitisation projects going on as we speak, including on the 1926 census. There is a larger large amount of material that cannot be provided properly because it is not catalogued owing to the issue with storage. Could I ask about large-scale swimming pool projects? I just cannot get my head around this because projects certainly do not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: I was assured at the time by the Minister that it was the number one priority. Amazingly, it did not get anywhere and the project that was favoured was in his own constituency. I am quite cynical about how the money is allocated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: I want to discuss the issue of the National Archives. I must declare a real interest in this area. I was a special rapporteur for a project undertaken by one of the committees some years ago about maximising our cultural and genealogical heritage. We published a report on that in 2015 and one of the things that stuck out for me was the affinity that was felt, particularly by the diaspora,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: They are very precious about that rule.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: I appreciate that. In fact, there are other financial benefits in terms of the cost of storage. We will always have the cost of storage, but there is the cost of retrieval. People will sometimes want to see the original, but I think accessing it in digital format can reduce retrieval costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: Yes, and there was at one point a programme in which I think Trinity College was involved. Is that still happening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: Does that extend to the National Archives in Kew? There are quite a lot of Irish records there. The Dublin Castle records are a case in point. I have looked at some of those.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: As regards some of the material that is stored in the UK, I went through a lot of the boxes myself. I have gone on a couple of research missions to the archives in Kew and I was surprised by some of the stuff that I thought was quite low-level and that really should reside here. Is there any prospect of repatriation if we have an archive that is fit for purpose and can safely store...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: I am aware of the good relationship between Kew and the National Archives here. May I go back to a point Deputy Colm Burke made? He made a point about Glanmire and a particular location. It was more a general point. One thing I would like to stress is that when new communities are built it is difficult enough to get housing built, but building a community is another task. Very often...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Catherine Murphy: I will make just one other point on that. There is a national strategy as to how development should happen: consolidation at city level, then suburban level and, less favoured, outer-suburban level. However, that is not what is happening; in fact, it is the reverse of what is happening. If you look at trends over the past 20 years, you can see that the overall population has grown but, in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Is that letter to the NPHDB?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise a couple of points. We need to ask whether a specific report was done. During Leader's Questions on Tuesday this week, Deputy McDonald read into the Dáil record part of a report by an independent expert appointed by Children's Health Ireland, which said of the recent issues: These are not snagging lists but rather indicative of major generic faults and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: What I am trying to get at is where those quotes are coming from.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: There may be the ongoing due diligence process that this letter refers to. There is a code that we all get used to. It is political speak and how particular organisations speak. We can see it in one of the pieces of correspondence we received from the NPHDB in May, which referred to an updated programme for substantial completion at the end of February 2023 in accordance with the public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Absolutely. There is not a compliant programme, but is there a programme? They are using the phrase "a compliant programme". That is the point I am making. If there is a programme, one of the questions we need to ask is what about it that is not compliant and is likely to lead to slippage. The other issue I would like us to raise in our reply to them, because it has been something that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: That is critically important. The board's advisers, STS are the people who are doing the work for it, and maybe we could attach what it is being advised by them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: If we could have Children's Health Ireland in when we have the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in, it would be useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The hospital is being built for it to run.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I presume we will have the accounts at that stage. The last set of accounts were for 2020.