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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Records (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 466. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost per year for the past three years of the storage of data and-or files on cloud storage or third-party servers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9402/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I think it is a good idea. The comparison has to be fair. I do not think any of us will dispute that. It is more than money. Where there have been such visits previously, is there a better take-up from committee members when it is closer? If only one or two people go will we get full value for it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There was a report this morning on-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It was a fairly comprehensive report about what we do at a private meeting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It was on "Morning Ireland".

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome Mr. Doyle. I wish to discuss the PSO aspect of CIE. If some of the Expressway services were relinquished and returned to PSO, is it true that the National Transport Authority would have to find money out of its current funds to cover the PSO aspect of those services if they went out to tender?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If substantial changes needed to be made and if, for example, three, four or five routes were deemed not to be commercially viable, would it then have to make an argument to the Department for an increase in its budget so that it could cover the cost of a PSO?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. I received a reply to a parliamentary question indicating that approximately 875,000 people, 20% of the population, have a free-travel pass. What is the relationship between the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and the Department of Social Protection in covering those? There is no obligation on the commercial providers to offer free travel to those with a free-travel...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to roads which represents the bulk of the Department's expenditure. Some of that is made up from the motor taxation fund. By my reckoning about a third of that comes from what is collected in motor taxation. Just after the crash we heard that we would sweat assets. It is possible to sweat them to the point that they become liabilities. Might we, or somebody else, be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What horizons would one be looking at to keep it at its current standard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Will we spend more because the condition becomes more expensive to remediate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can I ask about shadow tolling on some public private partnership, PPP, roads, where an amount is paid from the roads budget if there is a shortfall in vehicle numbers? Are there projections for that reducing because of the increase in the amount of traffic?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Could I stop Mr. Mullaney there? I am very limited in the amount of available time. I am trying to find out the amount paid for PPP roads where there was a guarantee of the amount of vehicles. Is that going to reduce? Is the Department projecting a reduction, where there is a shortfall and an amount of money is paid, by virtue of the level of traffic?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What was paid out in 2016?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The amount spent on tourism services is relatively small given the number of people employed in and the income coming from that sector. There is a very significant amount foregone from value-added tax. It is projected to be €626 million in 2016. That would not necessarily have found its way into the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, but is a risk analysis being done about...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The 9% VAT rate captures things that would not necessarily be tourism-related. They are part of the domestic economy. Is there a way of being more targeted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There was an underspend in the swimming pool maintenance area. There is ample evidence of swimming pools that require refurbishment and indeed of demand for new ones. Why did that underspend happen? The amount of money provided is more than the amount spent. Relative to the amount of money that was provided, the underspend is more than the amount that was expended. Is the scheme faulty...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: In fact, the one that was not funded was in my own constituency.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: When a new swimming pool is being sought, one of the issues that local authorities concern themselves with, understandably, is that the amount of matching can be quite large relative to the cost of a new build. The aim was to have one swimming pool for every 50,000 people and there are a small number of gaps nationally, and my constituency happens to be one of them.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, it was. I know the background to it. On matching funding, does that apply similarly to the scheme, that the take-up was lower than the Department had provided for?