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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Grand, thanks.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am okay with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The same response is repeated through the report. It is copy and paste - "it is not possible to rectify this non-compliant procurement retrospectively". Perhaps we could ask the OPW if the old process was tested before it was adopted. Is the new procurement process actually in place at this stage or is the OPW still relying on the old process and it is in transition? I am not entirely...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have one general point, which may be something that is raised with the Comptroller and Auditor General at audit time and relates to procurement. Talking to people in public bodies, very often, they will not get multi-annual funding. They will get notification of funding in March and have to have it spent by October. They are handing back money because they are put in an impossible...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: That is probably the best way to do it because they are practical examples.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Where is the central procurement officer?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: If it is a question that, for example, some of the ETBs are relatively short-staffed, presumably with remote working now it would be possible to have a collaborative approach in that they could employ one person between two or more of them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Economies of scale are another thing. I am sure they are conscious of that too.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to return to No. 2527, which is one that the Chair called out. It is a relatively small one at €48,000. It is about four or five from the bottom and it states: A competitive tender process through eTenders - [you need a magnifying glass to read this] - was carried out in ... 2023 to fill this role. This competition was unsuccessful and did not result in us entering into a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We are looking at consequences.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to comment on No. 2535.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: When we see non-competitive procurement, it tends to be for one year. However, by virtue of the fact this is put in the “emergency” category, it is not following the usual processes that are very public processes where there is a tender. This is kind of doubly non-compliant because it would be following the normal type of procurement where there would be multiple tenders for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I do not doubt that Department had, and has, an enormous amount to do. Everything has been located in one Department. Even if there has been an increase in staff numbers, they have had to be moved around to make sure that payments were made, where there is a regime around payments being made on time and so on. This should be cross-Government. That is where we will start to see pressure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sign a letter of intent in respect of a gaelscoil building project (details supplied) in Clondalkin, County Dublin; the reason for the delay in delivering this build; if her attention has been drawn to the duration of time that the school has operated in prefabs; the budget allocated to the delivery of the project and estimated time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a building (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare will be ready for pupils to use. [18185/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an exception can be made in respect of a child (details supplied) who has missed the cut off point by one day in terms of eligibility for ECCE year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18370/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount granted to each local authority in respect of anti-littering, clean-up and recycling initiatives in the past five years to date, in tabular form. [18501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were successful at stages 1 and 2 of the Garda trainee application process in the past 20 years; the totality of applicants in the past 20 years to the Garda trainee recruitment programmes; the number of persons that took part in stage 1 of the process over that time period; and the number that took...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were successful at stages 1 and 2 of the Garda trainee application process that were deemed to be generally unsuitable to be offered a place in phase 1 of Garda training in the past 20 years. [18629/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the most up-to-date number of community gardaí deployed each year since 2018, by local authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18611/24]