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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Watt. I want to start by asking him some questions on the procedure whereby Deputies claim travel and accommodation allowance and if he has a view on the way the system currently operates, which is that Deputies have to fob in for 120 days, in which case they are entitled to the maximum allowance, depending on their band. There is no system in place to ensure it is the Deputy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: The answer to this question might be the same but does Mr. Watt have any view on or responsibility for the system in place that is provided by a company called FlexTime? This system is used by both staff in the Houses of the Oireachtas and Deputies. When the staff clock in, it records the time the staff clock in at, clock out at and so on. I have requested my own records but it seems that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: It would depend on what Mr. Watt said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: I have a separate question. Within the Civil Service for this flexitime system of clocking in, is Mr. Watt aware of any category of staff for whom the time is not recorded and only attendance is recorded in a digital fashion? Is Mr. Watt aware of any such scenarios or does it always record the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: No problem. I want to ask about the resignation of the chief executive officer of the Office of Government Procurement, Mr. Paul Quinn, from the board of the national children's hospital. Is Mr. Watt aware of why he resigned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: Is Mr. Watt saying he resigned because he was too busy with other responsibilities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: Would Mr. Watt have described his position on the board as being a position he had in a personal capacity or was it related to his position as chief executive officer of the Office of Government Procurement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: Is Mr. Watt happy with the performance of the Office of Government Procurement in light of, for example, the multiple changes in specifications of the national children's hospital and the spiralling costs related to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: I note in Mr. Watt's opening statement he talks about making the Civil Service more open, accountable, transparent and so on. Does that not include answering questions in the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: The Chairman might correct me on this but Mr. Watt did not come to this committee about this matter but he went to the Committee of Public Accounts. We asked Mr. Watt to come here and he did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: Mr. Watt was here on 7 March 2019 so he must have answered some questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: How did it happen? How did we end up with such spiralling costs over a period? How did we end up with such continuous specification changes? How was that allowed to take place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Watt.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: Go on, name and shame.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: All right, but other Deputies spoke twice in the debate before the Minister of State. I will be brief.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: Go on.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: They can pay more than 50% if they want to.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: I am here to speak about amendment No. 6 but I have listened to the debate and I am aware of the public commentary, discussion and so on about the bingo issue. I am in favour of increasing the amount that goes to charity to 25%, a change that makes all the sense in the world. I still do not quite understand why a maximum of 50% of the proceeds is to go to those who play bingo. A maximum is...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Low Pay (4 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the high incidence of low pay within the meat industry; and her plans to address same. [50380/19]
- Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Paul Murphy: I have just left the protest taking place in front of and at the back of Leinster House. Those who organised the protest are ordinary people who have jobs and plenty of things to be doing. They have done far more through their activity and organising to address the housing crisis than this Government has done, even though that is supposed to be its job. To give a warning to the Government,...