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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister can revert on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I would have thought so. Perhaps the Minister will get back to me on that. I have a final set of questions. I heard the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, this morning. He accused people who had been discussing the potential withdrawal of the travel pass as scaremongering. Was he taking aim at the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport and what was the nature of their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Minister reckon so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There will be no difference in terms of the experience that people have with a travel pass. They will continue to have an unlimited travel pass. Is that the intention?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce measures to address the issue of landlords seeking bids on advertised rents from prospective tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to publish all reports and related documentation received by him from the Residential Tenancies Board and the Housing Agency relating to the extension of rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5082/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost of all contracted work in the analysis of data or any other work associated with the designation of rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5110/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I note that the witnesses did not anticipate efficiencies following capital projects and that was considered afterwards. The prison population will change now that people will not be imprisoned for non-payment of fines. Have the witnesses considered how that will change the dynamic or the staff-prisoner ratio?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: How does that impact or has the Department anticipated how it will impact? Given the range of options that the courts have, such as payment by instalment and attachment orders from salary, ultimately it will mean that save in the most exceptional circumstances and persistent offenders, courts will not be in a position to send people to prison for non-payment of fines. That figure of 8,000 to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I was trying to anticipate the nature of the prison population but most people would only spend a short period of time in it for the non-payment of fines. Does the Prison Service count those figures and include them in the recidivism figures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: America has 25% of the world's prison population and 5% of the world's population.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Not a good comparator.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is there an isolated cost associated with that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I tabled some parliamentary questions on prison statics, the average number in daily custody; the number of staff; the number on maternity leave; the number on sick leave. I was provided with the figures and it separated out the number on maternity leave, which obviously has to be factored in if one is going to change the gender balance in any workplace. One can factor in a ratio for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I fully accept that it can happen and one would expect it in any large workforce, but it is the constant figure that jumps out. Are there initiatives that one would like to implement? Reducing the level of recidivism will save not only money but reduce the crime rates and related behaviours. Are there any particular initiatives on the wish list that could achieve significant reductions...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Are there examples in other European countries that tie into what Mr. Waters has proposed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: On the regionalisation of prisons, did that change as a consequence of the economic crash? There was a proposal to put a very large prison out on the fringes of Dublin in Thornton Hall. What prompted that?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (7 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the border controls and or passport checks in place at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6016/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (7 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason joint receivers and NAMA agreed to dispose of a CIÉ site to a person (details supplied) that was connected to NAMA under the section 172(3) of the NAMA Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5928/17]