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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: What measures, if any, have the witnesses had to take to combat the threat of people congregating outside of sports stadia and grounds? That was one of the reasons initially cited for limits and restrictions on attending matches. On a practical level, what measures have been put in place? Have the witnesses had to make changes to the grounds, for example, to combat that? That was one of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Briefing (22 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: 308. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects her full Ministerial briefing paper to be available and published on her Department’s website [25408/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (22 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if the primary care centre in Haymarket Centre, Drogheda, County Louth is still available to the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24848/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Eight days ago, I raised the urgent need for a Covid-19 testing centre for Drogheda, the largest town in Ireland. The Taoiseach gave a commitment to make representations and revert to me. He never did get back to me, despite the fact that County Louth is now on a knife-edge and we are looking at the real possibility of heading into level 3. The people are playing their part and they expect...

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: As we are all aware, in the past few weeks the British have done a U-turn on the withdrawal agreement. Businesses throughout our island have already been brought to their knees due to the pandemic and now they again have to contend with the shock of a potential no-deal Brexit. The British are clearly not prepared for this eventuality and their chaotic approach will affect Irish businesses...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Looking at the response we had got back in respect of offences that were before the court or the judge for holding a mobile phone while driving, the figures state that there were 3,886 offences that did not result in a conviction. The second paragraph on page 2 is problematic and I will outline why. First, it says that the Courts Service does not record the reasons for any strikeout....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: I asked when I raised this initially whether there might be a role in it for the Committee of Public Accounts. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General the same question. How would we investigate this? If there is simple clarification, fair enough, but 49% is high and the reasons are not crystal clear. As I said, given all the problems we had with the PULSE system, penalty points and so...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Would it be worthwhile to have the Department before the committee to start the ball rolling and get it to examine how procedures could be put in place and a unified approach taken right through the whole system?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Yes, I am. There are a number of different issues we could invite the Department in to discuss, if the committee is in agreement with that proposal.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: I think it might be an idea, as Deputy Murphy has said, firstly to see what the response is. I have no doubt that we will have to invite the Department in following the response. It did not offer any clarity of any description or outline exactly what the reasons were in this. It might be no harm to look for an update and to be specific about what we want exactly. We can invite them in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Yes, there is no harm in writing to both bodies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: I have highlighted several items on several pages that require clarification, on foot of the recommendations made by the committee. I will give a couple of examples. Recommendation A.1 reads: "The Committee recommends that the Department immediately improves the system to provide comprehensive information in respect of all housing provision and that this information is published on a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: I do. It has furnished us with a list. This is, perhaps, not for the Committee of Public Accounts as such but reference was made to the fact it has a home support pilot scheme. Going through the list, there are many areas that do not yet have a primary care centre. As it included it in the report, can we write to it to get an update on its home support pilot scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General. Given that the HSE is one of the highest-spend groups, what is normal practice in relation to procurement? What does it have in place in comparison to other Departments?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: I want to follow up on an issue with the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: What are our options? Do we leave this matter with the HSE or should it be taken in charge elsewhere?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: This might be something or nothing, and somebody might be able to explain it. I refer to the contracts that were non-compliant. According to the list furnished by the OPW there were eight individual projects and each was called security private residents but the total amount was €374,000. Does anybody know who or what that would be? Perhaps it can easily be explained. It is as I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Yes, I suppose it gives a certain bit of clarity. I still think it would do no harm to write to them. We are not looking for whose house it was or what their position was, just a breakdown of the circumstances that would allow this. We do not want to know where they are or who they are, rather a category of what the spend was on.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Is this the correspondence from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment? We all know about the serious concerns around the project but the sums involved here are vast. It is hard to credit. Can the committee ask the Department to attend at some stage for questioning?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Imelda Munster: Would members agree to this because questions have to be asked about those sums?