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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Will we seek that the HEA should come back to us then?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Should we forward the correspondence to the health committee because it is not just individual workers who have a genuine grievance but there is a real and noticeable problem with the delivery of services as a consequence because there is no doubt there is a real difficulty in holding on to staff. I believe we should forward the correspondence to the Joint Committee on Health because it has...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I was the one who raised this. I said that ETBI paid for it and I want to acknowledge that I was incorrect on that. I do not know who paid for it but ETBI did not. I just want to acknowledge that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Could I ask about the engagement between the HSE and Deloitte, backwards and forwards?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We are still awaiting that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can it be outlined what the issues are in regard to the non-recognition of pension costs and liabilities?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Last year, there were changes to the baselines of the funding for local authorities. I refer to the baselines in respect of the distribution of local property tax and it was in recognition of the pension change. That was the exclusive reason for it. The local authorities became not liable but the liability was at national level. It is an accounting matter. Perhaps it is just a policy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Essentially, what we really need to be looking at is situations where there is an audit and something is found in that audit. However, there is a feeling that we cannot even get to that. There is a huge amount of going forward and backwards, and, I am sure, a huge administrative burden in trying to get these accounts audited. Is there an additional burden on the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We are the gatekeepers. Maybe it is time that, along with looking at this, we look at what potential sanctions could be applied for non-adherence, over and above appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts. It would have struck me as a pretty basic function that they should fulfil. If we are going to change behaviour, there has to be a mechanism for doing so, and I do not think just...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Revenue Commissioners can tell us what came in, and I understand that they will not be talking about individual taxpayers, but the Department of Finance, in advance of any budget where there is a change, must have carried out an analysis of what is expected to come in. It might be found then that there is a tax shelter being used or that section 110 reliefs have been used in a way that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am interested specifically in what it had anticipated would come in and did not, or where a tax vehicle was used in a way that was not anticipated.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can we move the screen up slightly so that we can see the next meeting dates?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to start with the area of landfill and the 70 high risk sites that have been identified. How many of them are in the ownership of local authorities?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is it the majority of them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The one that-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The one Mr. Griffin referred to earlier, Kerdiffstown, was in private ownership and it was a waste mountain. Kildare is not known for mountains. It is a very flat county. This mountain started to grow and grow. There were ongoing complaints about it for years and then it went on fire and cost about €40 million. Mr. Griffin might correct that number. There was a very expensive...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have very limited time. I would appreciate that information.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Where would the income be shown from those fines? Is it shown as a liability that has not been realised? Is it at Department level or local authority level? What level is it at? Where is it accounted for?