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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have a number of other questions but I would like to hear the issue I raised addressed. I did not mention ownership and I did not hear anybody else mention it either. The report does not dispute ownership. It is the directorships and the mechanism used that is at issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Of the 19 recommendations contained in the interim report, progress is being made on some of them. What is outstanding and what is the timeline?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (9 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the distribution of public sector pensions in €5,000 bands (details supplied) for each of the years 2015 and 2016 in tabular form;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21593/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (9 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 402. To ask the Minister for Health if a psychologist has been appointed to Kildare Network for children requiring such services; if his attention has been drawn to the large demand for such services in an area with a disproportionately large young population; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that County Kildare is now the fourth most populated county; if his attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Olympic Games Ticketing Arrangements (9 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 603. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1236 of 21 March 2017, if he has been presented with the final report into the circumstances surrounding the distribution of tickets for the Rio Olympic Games and related matters by Judge Carroll Moran; if so, if he and the Minister of State in his Department will meet with the Joint Committee on...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice. I will take approximately six and a half minutes.

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is worth going back to the early 1990s to consider when the Dublin Transportation Initiative, DTI, was put in place. I was a member of one of several consultative panels. The purpose of the DTI was to deal with traffic congestion in the capital and European funds were available for initiatives to deal with it. The case was very strongly made by Ireland at the time because Dublin was...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Comharthaí Bóthair (10 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an aontaíonn sé, nuair a bhíonn comhartha tráchta le huasdátú nó le hathrú, gur chóir leagan Gaeilge cinntithe a bheith air, gur chóir an leagan sin a bheith ar cóimhéid leis an leagan Béarla, agus gur chóir go mbeadh sé i ngnáthchló mar a bhíonn...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if local authorities can impose commercial rates in cases of unauthorised commercial developments; if he is considering changes to the law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the National Transport Authority's work on the redesign of the DART interconnector in collaboration with Irish Rail; if the study to re-examine tunnel size options is complete; if this work will be finalised in time for the capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22484/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which he will commence awarding the next round of capital grants for sports and recreation clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22485/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We talked about what we should focus on last week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We all now understand that there is a particular piece that does not stray into the inquiry or commission. As I said last week, and still believe, it would be logical to have the whistleblower in here before the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I agree strongly that the dates of audits and the statements are as important as the signature. We definitely need to have this dealt with much earlier. I raised this matter with the Tánaiste on 9 February on Leaders' Questions. I was looking for a copy of the draft report that had been leaked to a newspaper and there was quite an extensive article in January as to parliamentary...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Could I ask for timelines to be included in the report as well? There were different dates when things were known.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I think it would be quite useful to put them in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to some of the issues around the report from Templemore. Mr. Waters was invited in October 2015 onto the committee or group which was going to take this further after it was identified in July.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Waters took up that position in November. Am I correct to presume the Tánaiste would have been fully informed at that stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Commissioner made the point last week that by virtue of the fact the Department was informed, even though there was an obligation on the Commissioner to inform the Minister she made the point that by virtue of the fact the Department was informed she was making a presumption that the Minister was informed, so that would not be correct?