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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What we get for what we spend is astonishing. That comes down to a significant level of volunteerism and some of the sporting bodies themselves generating funds. I, too, was hugely impressed the day we went out to Abbotstown. The extent of non-elite participation is phenomenal. Something that arose repeatedly was that we tend to be fragmented in how we do things but this was a...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Does it come out of a segment of the budget? Does it come out of the sports segment of the budget or is it just out of general administration?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I would be interested to see the Deloitte report to which the Minister referred. I received a reply from the Department of Finance to a parliamentary question on the 9% VAT rate. My memory is that more than €500 million has been forgone in VAT as a consequence of that reduction. There is a good argument for some of the reduction to be retained but it should be more targeted. Items...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister wants the money though.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that it would not be possible to have a differential with respect to the geography. I do not know how one would separate it. However, we have public policy relating to fast food not being particularly good, for example, yet we are giving a VAT advantage to those outlets, which I will not name. I do not believe it was ever intended or understood to apply to things such as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda College (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details regarding the internal audit of Templemore Garda training college; her views on whether any laws have been found by the audit to have been breached; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that neither the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality nor the Committee of Public Accounts had dealt with this report despite her previous...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda College (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I raise the issue of the internal audit at Templemore on 9 February. The Tánaiste's reply to me on that day was very dismissive. She told me that it had received full scrutiny at the justice committee. I pursued it and found that that did not happen. I was then told that it had been referred to the Committee of Public Accounts. I was the one who wrote to the Committee of Public...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda College (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: You were.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda College (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That falls far short of what I was told here with regard to it having had full scrutiny; it had not. The issues include 50 bank accounts; €125,000 collected from the leasing of farmland by the Office of Public Works that went into the restaurant account; and €400,000 transferred from the bar to keep the restaurant running. We have a right to expect higher standards of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda College (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Finally, can the Tánaiste confirm that she did not communicate with the Garda Commissioner who is, as she said, the person in charge in respect of this matter, or when dealing with any matters, other than through the official communication channels? I am referring to things like Gmail, Signal or WhatsApp. Can the Tánaiste confirm that this did not happen?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: British-Irish Co-operation (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the issue of British undercover agents operating here was raised with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Brokenshire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8605/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1,000 of 21 March 2017, his plans for a site (details supplied) upon completion of the proposed new maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15779/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if he gave consideration or made attempts to buy outright the site that the proposed new maternity hospital will be built on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15784/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if there is provision to collect the outstanding moneys owed by a religious order regarding the State redress scheme as part of a newly formed company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15785/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if he will have a role in the oversight of a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15786/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 200. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the appropriateness of a religious order (details supplied) having control of a State funded asset; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15787/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I might not need to take the ten minutes. Mr. Collins has described the difference between the foundation and the trust and how the money can be used. Regarding the income for both, he said that some people who donate money to both will more or less say where the money should be directed. What proportion of the income coming into both the foundation and trust would be directed where the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I should have been more specific. I am referring to money that supports students. Are there particular faculties that would be supported? Does the source of the income that comes into the foundation have an influence on the direction of the university or the primacy of one faculty over another? Is there any influence or how does the university maintain a balance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have one further question relating to the IMI. How did the purchase of the IMI come about? Was an approach made to the university? Was that something the university was seeking, or what way did it occur?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Has the asset increased in value since the university purchased it?