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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to the seizure of abortion pills by customs officers, does Ms Donlon have any indication of the quantities involved? Were they intended for individual homes? If somebody is looking to take medication to terminate a pregnancy, there is a critically important timeline. It would be useful to get that information if Ms Donlon has it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am quite certain that it must add to the stress.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reasons the State awarded a contract to a company (details supplied) to handle the emergency call answering service in view of the fact that this company subcontracts the work to a third party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had engagements or discussions with a company (details supplied) and a third party company regarding ECAS operators in the context of working conditions and pay structure and-or pay rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48479/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Inland Waterways Development (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to develop the canal system in a manner similar to the Wild Atlantic Way and or the Waterford greenway project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48642/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1218 of 7 November 2017, the way in which a person can register and verify a MyGov account if they do not have a phone number or mobile phone device and or a tablet device; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48449/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures a company (details supplied) has in place regarding redeployment of its own staff based here and or in making staff redundant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48465/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I agree with the previous points. It is known that this sector is one we have concerns about. Even if we had not put it on our work programme, one could have predicted it would end up on our work programme. We do not want it to be seen as a way of organising or restricting the number of questions that can be asked because it has been set up to do that. That could happen. It could be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There was a list of items we had not quite concluded.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Have we that list of items to be followed up?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have a similar question on the dialogue between the HSE and Deloitte that Mr. O'Brien agreed to send to us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have some quick questions. I could understand it if there was an outlier among the number of buildings, perhaps because of unclear title issues. The length of time it is taking for the whole group suggests there is some other reason for the delay in getting these buildings into State ownership. In addition to the list that has been promised, can we be given some indication as to when we...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will do my best. Can I try and capture something that is of concern to me in relation to a number of different things that come together. At the beginning of the meeting we talked about the transfer of properties under the redress scheme and the witness said that following the Comptroller and Auditor General's report progress was accelerated. We then had the universities in and we did...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: When was that put in place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: How does the witness account for the fact that as all that information is being received, and it is available on a monthly basis, there would be such a delay in producing accounts, particularly for ETBs that were not amalgamated and where there would not have been that kind of conflict in terms of financial management?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It appears to be quite pedestrian given the time lags. Let me revert to a previous report of the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2010 which dealt with Kildare Vocational Education Committee. A number of failures were found relating to procurement, ICT, five purchases where there was no evidence of the three quotations being sought. This goes back quite a long time. Of the overall...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is Mr. Ó Foghlú paying particular attention to any ETBs, following that report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What resources have been allocated to ensure the boards of the ETBs have the capacity in terms of governance? Is that left to the ETBs themselves?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am aware of a degree of frustration among some of the members of the Kildare-Wicklow ETB on being free to perform their functions. I think there is an issue in regard to oversight of the financial role because if that oversight is not as it should be there is a sizeable failure of governance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Would it be normal for board members to be able to discuss matters among themselves or does that have to happen at a board meeting? Where does that fall into governance?