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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Garth Brooks is probably coming to the Hill. Is Mr. Duffy keeping it under wraps?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and-or his officials consulted with any parties connected with a legal action against a bank (details supplied) by persons connected with a group of hedge funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2257/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and-or his officials consulted with any parties connected with a legal action against a bank (details supplied) by persons connected with a group of hedge funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2258/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme Funding (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to meet with a group (details supplied); his further plans to increase funding to the rural transport sector in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2264/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: 318. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the timeframe for the national child care information system being developed by Tusla to be operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2409/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Can we ensure this is dealt with at an early stage? You are right, Chairman. We have all been contacted by people. Some people are tired and have been campaigning for a long time. If we could timetable this as one of the earlier parts of the programme, it would be beneficial.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It is an incredibly disappointing reply. There is no indication whether the rules about which it talks were actually applied. For what did it think we were looking?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It is very complicated, but the more complicated something is, the more we need to understand it. It goes to the core of many of the assets transferred from Bank of Ireland to NAMA and whether it has the legal standing to dispose of them. It is also at the heart of Project Eagle-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: -----and the NAMA project, or at least part of it, specifically as it concerns Bank of Ireland. It would be useful for us to have a full understanding of what is at the heart of the matter. I have tried to get my head around a lot of the documentation that was sent to us but the point being made is substantial in nature. It is not just about oversight, it revolves around the legal standing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Can the Chairman ensure that the Central Bank gets back to us in a timely way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: No. It is recent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I was forwarding correspondence I received because I thought this was the appropriate place to send it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I am happy to send it to that committee
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I presume that will not include looking at the national procurement policy because there is plenty of evidence that we apply a very rigid standard here, unlike other European member states. In fact, the proportion of contracts that go out of the country is something like 28%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: That merits some discussion. I do not know if it is a matter for the Committee on Public Accounts, but a recent case was brought to my attention where Irish companies lost out. I may well bring it in terms of whether it was a fair contract. They were making the point that 28% of contracts go out of the country where it is 1% to 1.5% in the case of France and Germany. There was a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: This is a separate topic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. It relates the issue of wards of court and where that might fall. We talked about a number of things. Are they always captured? Is a list of these things kept? Can I ask that this be done as early as possible in the work programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Catherine Murphy: Very often incentives influence behaviour. Have the witnesses done any kind of analysis on the extent to which the system is losing child protection workers to the guardian ad litemservice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Catherine Murphy: Is Tusla likely to look at that in the context of retention of people?