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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I completely agree that there is a need to look at this area and can see where the constraints are, but one other associated issue is the big loss recorded by the DIT in terms of access to journals for the library. There seems to be a variety of approaches to the issue taken by some of the colleges. The amount of their own material to which they have access also varies. It seems that some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Public funds and money are used to educate the person who produces the research. The research is not paid for by the journal to which it is submitted. The researchers have to sign a copyright agreement with it. It is then peer-reviewed, again at no cost to the journal, and the researchers producing the work have to sign a copyright agreement. They must even carry indemnity against...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It is slightly different when the key person who led the questioning on the particular day happens to be in the same constituency as the Minister.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The targeting of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: -----members in that way is unacceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I have a question on that. Obviously there are big audit houses involved. Is there anything that jumps out in that regard relating to particular audit houses? Has there been any problem and have they been of a standard with which the witness would be happy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I agree with the point made that our talking about this issue in a very cold way in relation to the finances is at odds with the nature of the issue at hand, but that is what is in front of us. Every one of us accepts that there was a spectacular underestimation of the liability or the extent of the problem. The extent of the problem has produced a liability. Deputy Catherine Connolly...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: How firm did Mr. Ó Foghlú believe the offer made in 2009 was when they were not willing to enter into an agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I remember quite well that much of the discussion on the number of people who had initially come forward to seek redress was about people not knowing that there was a redress scheme in place because they had left the country. Who could have blamed them? When the figures doubled, I presume there would have been a sizeable number of people from outside the State that would have increased the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: For exactly the same reasons, some found it very traumatising to come forward and the redress scheme was a route that did not lead to a courtroom. One of the things that would have influenced people also is that lawyers would not end up with the lion's share of any award made. That is why I find it very hard to reconcile the average payment of €62,500 with the figure of nearly...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Have lessons been learned in the event that a similar redress scheme is initiated in the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Ó Foghlú would have had ongoing engagement with the religious congregations that were not forthcoming, that were resisting or taking far too long to comply, at least the ones included in the indemnity agreement. Did he notice a difference in their compliance with what was included in the indemnity agreement when such things as the Ryan report were published? Did that have an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously, the word compensation would have to be in inverted commas because nothing can compensate for all of the things that were documented in the Ryan report, but ultimately people went through a redress scheme. A redress scheme does not remove the possibility of individuals within the religious orders being held to account through the legal system. Were any proceedings ultimately taken...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I would have thought there would be State prosecutions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: So it was down to individuals to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Is it a failing of a redress scheme that it almost produces an indemnity, except for somebody who takes a civil case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: On quite a small item but one that is important for some people------
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: My question relates to the small amount of money provided to allow for work to reconnect people with families. Does the Department have an evaluation on that service at this stage? Some of us will hear from people who feel that there is a resistance in some of the orders to being forthcoming with information that might be available, their records for example. That is really quite hurtful...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Can I interject to ask if that was under the 2002 agreement as opposed to 2009 agreement?