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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Does Dr. Quinn have the figure for those?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Quinn said the Department would have known about those businesses that had ceased trading by the time the reformed scheme came around. What are the figures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Dr. Quinn knew, coming here today, that there would be questions about the restart grant scheme. We have discovered that no reviews were carried out as they were supposed to be, per the service-level agreement. Despite Dr. Quinn saying that the Department would have known how many businesses had ceased trading by the introduction of the reformed scheme in August, she does not have the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Had the reviews been carried out, per the service-level agreement, the Department might have had this information to hand. I have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General about his opinion of the practice of setting up a scheme based entirely on self-certification, and whether it would have been prudent to carry out those scheduled reviews according to the Department's...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Yes, to a certain extent. I still think there was a lack of prudence in carrying out the scheduled reviews. Things that could have been picked up on were not. Why have it in the Department's service-level agreement if it is not going to be adhered to? It is part of the Department's service-level agreement but nothing was done about it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I suppose the question everyone across the State wants an answer to is why the Government has decided that there should be a hierarchy on suffering. Who made that decision? Children who were boarded out, many used as slaves and many abused, have been excluded along with children who were less than six months in these appalling institutions. A number of homes and institutions and all the...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: The recent surge in Covid cases has proven that the Government does not have a coherent plan to get us through the surge we are experiencing. There is a range of measures we should be using, including free antigen tests, adequate PCR tests and booster jabs. The feeling in the general public is that the Government is dithering and indecisive and that the result is thousands of daily cases...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I thank the Minister. Also, the booster jab regime has been far too slow. As others have said, we need to speed it up. There is confusion among some groups. When will those who got the Janssen vaccine get the booster? They should have been given one three months after their vaccine. Many of them were vaccinated over six months ago and there is no sign of a booster yet. There is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with regard to the east Meath primary care centre; when it will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57371/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners currently practising in Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Donacarney, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57372/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 643. To ask the Minister for Health the planned number of general practitioners who are to be based at the east Meath primary care centre when it is operational; the number of general practitioners planned for the centre who will be in addition to the general practitioners already based in Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Donacarney, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: 730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to review the Control of Horses Act 1996; if he further plans to introduce legislation amending the Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57049/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I wish to raise the same issue about pop-up test centres. Last night, I asked the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, if he would make a commitment to contact the HSE in Louth in relation to it providing a pop-up test centre for Drogheda and he said he would respond in his closing statement, but he did not. As the Tánaiste will probably know, Louth has the highest case numbers in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I thank the Vice Chair. I want to touch on RTÉ. Ms Licken said the funding for RTÉ comes through her Department, but we know that RTÉ is funded through the television licence. RTÉ accounts for nearly 25% of the total expenditure. The funding comes through the Department and it is tasked with handing the funding over. I want to touch on the fact that RTÉ recently...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I am asking about the settlement it made and the Department's take on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Would the Department be concerned about the lack of oversight? The settlement was made as a consequence of a lack of oversight. We have been here before. I would give the FAI as an example of an organisation that lacked oversight. Would Ms Murphy be concerned at all about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: There is another issue there. I recently engaged with RTÉ regarding pay disparity that has been ongoing between clár reachtairí and their English-language counterparts. It seems that workers are essentially being paid less if they work through the medium of Irish. I understand that has been going on for approximately 20 years. RTÉ at the time claimed to be unaware of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: That again comes back to the issue of oversight. This has been going on for 20 years. It was only when it was flagged and people persistently chased it that RTÉ did what it is doing. We have, as yet, nothing concrete from RTÉ. There has been a lack of oversight and, for 20 years, there has been a sliding scale of wages.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Does Ms Murphy want to come in?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: This practice went on for 20 years. Was the Department aware of the pay disparity between workers depending on the language through which they worked?