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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: My understanding is that the funds are categorised according to how the investments are made. People affected might be slightly older and have teenage, rather than very young, children.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: A review was carried out by Aon Hewitt last year. Did the contract for that go to competitive tender?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If the review was tendered for and Aon Hewitt was the adviser for the Courts Service, would there not have been a conflict of interest in that regard in view of the fact that Aon Hewitt was advising on investments and then tendered to do the review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to see the terms of reference for the review. Could they be provided?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will examine that report. Since the financial crisis, the Courts Service has put two significant risk management strategies in place. Does this suggest that those strategies should have been in place before the economic crash because there was a fall in the return on investments at that stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There has been an increase in returns in recent years but in terms of the point made by the witness regarding the downturn, corrective strategies have thereafter been put in place in that cash is held for three years in order that something does not have to be sold when it is at its lowest value. The argument made by some is that that is what impacted on some funds. One set of figures I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: This a very vulnerable group of people, many of whom do not want to be wards of court. Very often, they are wholly dependent on the Courts Service to properly manage the funds for their care. It is, therefore, an extremely important group of people who must be protected as well as possible. The witness has indicated he expects there will be another review. When will that take place and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I might come back to the witness on that point. There is much material in the statement concerning savings, efficiencies, modernisation and so on. Some of the difficulties in regard to the Courts Service relate to the time that people have to wait, particularly at District Court level where it can taken an inordinate length of time for cases to be heard. Does the modernisation programme...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am addressing the issue of court dates.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Let us move into civil matters. What is the position?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That does not match my experience on the civil law side, for example, in planning matters, where there can be inordinate delays. It makes a mockery of the system by virtue of the length of time it takes. I will give some separate examples.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: No, I am talking about cases that are ready to proceed. They are waiting and constantly told there is another date.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, that is in the District Court.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I certainly will.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It would be useful if Mr. Ryan could give use those statistics as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to the response to a parliamentary question I tabled in respect of professional media relations. I got the reply on 19 June. A total of €301,000, exclusive of VAT, was spent between 1 June 2014 and 31 May 2017. Is that exclusive? Does the Courts Service have someonein situ? Is this additional or is this the totality of it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: How would they play out? Is it intermittent?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22 - Courts Service (13 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can we see the details of the contract?

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome this Bill and I am very happy to support it. There can be a lot of attention placed on things that do not work in the Dáil but this is one initiative where we can have a collaborative approach and it shows that some things do work well. While it did not present scientific statistics, we all remember the roadshow that Vincent Browne took around the country prior to the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 28. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on taxi and-or limousine fares in the past two years to date by year and amount. [35495/17]