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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I wish to comment on that. I wish to clarify whether we are in public or private session before I speak.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The monitor says we are in private session. It is good to finally get this correspondence from Professor Brennan on this issue. I had hoped she would come before the committee at this time of year. She had been unable to come before it until now and over the summer it appears she decided she did not need or want to come before it, and wrote a detailed letter. I wish to raise a couple of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: It would be my view that we cannot produce a report on this if this is the last bit of evidence we are taking. Professor Brennan has given us a detail of her time there but it is just not enough because of the conflicts we have heard from other testimonies before us. We have sat at length on this in individual sessions and over a period of time, as the clerk has pointed out. I would think...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I can understand her reluctance not to want to come in but if we want to be able to produce a report that in some way addresses the issues we want to address - particularly given the charges made against her in this committee and now the charges she is making about the accuracy of the evidence that was given to us - we need to know and we can only do that from actual discussion here in committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Thank you, Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I would be very cautious on that front. We do not want to let the Committee of Public Accounts be used as a vehicle for any developer who has been treated fairly by NAMA but for other purposes wants to cast a negative light on the work of NAMA or regarding a particular portfolio they believe was not treated properly but which was but they were not included in it because NAMA decided not to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Sorry, will the committee approve those reports at next week's meeting? Is that what will happen in respect of the forthcoming ones?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (23 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of interest repayments on the national debt; the changes in comparison to the previous year and forecasts for next year; the amount these interest repayments will increase as a result of borrowing to fund the deficit in 2015. [35631/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (23 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the conditions or circumstances in which an Irish person can obtain a second passport. [35718/14]

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome this legislation and congratulate the Minister of State on bringing it forward. Anyone who has listened to the debate on the Bill would be impressed by the contributions from a number of Deputies. It is clear, in terms of representation in this House, that a considerable number of people agree not only with this legislation but also with all the work that the Government and the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (25 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has designated or will designate a point of contact in his Department to liaise with youth educators on the various departmental schemes across Government, in place to assist children in education and fitness, and the various eligibility criteria and so on to help youth educators better navigate the system. [36319/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of funding awards currently available from her Department for primary schools. [36318/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (25 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons with an ileo-anal pouch will qualify for an increased water allowance [36321/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (25 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his discussions with the National Transport Authority on the feasibility of a pilot partial footpath parking scheme for a limited number of specific locations in Dublin, as per previous replies. [36320/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: If there is a substantive point that a member wants to make, it may need to be discussed or disputed among the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: On the points Deputy Ross raises, I do not know whether it is within the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts to make comments on the O'Mahoney report as to its findings or, if there was consensus on the committee, how members believe that report was conducted or whether it had weaknesses. The committee must be careful in its own report to stay within the remit of the functions of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Application Numbers (30 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the more than 100% increase in the number of recipients of disability allowance over a ten-year period between 1996 and 2006, from 37,054 recipients to 83,697 recipients, and the subsequent more than 40% increase in recipients over the following eight year period until 2014, with an estimated 108,274 recipients expected to receive...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Application Numbers (30 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the decrease in the number of recipients of illness benefit from a 20-year high of 81,253 people in 2010, to an estimated 58,468 recipients in 2014, a ten year low. [36892/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Review (30 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 262. To ask the Minister for Defence when deliberations on the new white paper on Defence will commence. [36890/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider extending the under 18s water allowance to third-level students living in the family home. [37122/14]