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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: Is there any documentation of the State Claims Agency's position of opposing a confidentiality agreement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: Is Mr. Breen saying there is no documentation and that the discussions were oral?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: What was the response to Mr. Breen's requests?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: In discussions with the agency, did those concerned try to justify why they were looking for a confidentiality agreement and did not agree with Mr. Breen's argument that there should not be such an agreement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: To return to the question Deputy Michael McGrath was exploring, I understand the position on the cases in which a complainant may request a confidentiality agreement. It makes sense. Could Mr. Breen explain the circumstances in which the State Claims Agency would seek an agreement? In the past ten or 20 years, for example, how many times has the State Claims Agency sought confidentiality...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: How many years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: I find that hard to understand. The State Claims Agency's role is to represent the interests of the State in these cases. However, the State is not just concerned with pounds, shillings and pence; it should also be concerned with what kind of society we have. It is obvious in this case, and the State Claims Agency agrees, that if there had been a confidentiality agreement, it would have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: I want to deal with the issue of mandatory open disclosure. The State Claims Agency made submissions to the Joint Committee on Health whenever it was considering this issue. Mr. Breen argued that a discretionary approach was the optimal approach in striking a balance between protecting patients and protecting medical practitioners. He argued against mandatory open disclosure. Why did he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: Is it really too much to ask that medical professionals should be legally required to come clean with people where mistakes have been made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: Yes, but that has not worked. It did not happen in this case. For example, we do not know whether, if open disclosure had been mandatory, it would have happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: It might not have but there would have been a more easy route to remedy from Vicky Phelan's point of view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: In such circumstances, has Mr. Breen changed his opinion on the issue of mandatory disclosure? Has the State Claims Agency changed its position on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Breen.
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (9 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the ability of arts and culture projects to question social and political matters without a risk to funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20207/18]
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (9 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: Is the Minister concerned about the significant restriction on artistic expression which, in my opinion, amounted to censorship in two recent cases? The cases in question relate to the removal of the Maser mural from the Project Arts Centre under threat of the centre losing charitable status from the Charities Regulator and the withdrawal of an event entitled "The Question of the Eighth"...
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (9 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: I welcome the Minister's agreement about the political role of art. Toni Morrison famously said, "All of that art-for-art's-sake stuff is BS. What are these people talking about?" She also stated:All good art is political! There is none that isn't. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, "We love the status quo." I am not sure whether there is any good art...
- Priority Questions: Arts Funding (9 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister not agree that there is a problem here? Censorship of art is happening under the banner that a referendum is due to take place. How far does it go? What will be censored next? Una Mullaly wrote about her event and stated:My event was about a book. It was not a campaigning event. It was not a rally or a demonstration or a hustings. If I am said to be "taking a side",...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: What would it take?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Paul Murphy: He would have got the message.