Results 10,281-10,300 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit Knowledge Transfer Ireland? What is its status?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Is it in the Department or is it in Enterprise Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to see the architecture of this because that will tell us something about what is driving it as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Because some whistleblowers would take issue with this report. Therefore, there is something to go back to in that regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Journalists also fault us all the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Motor tax was ring-fenced in 1997 and was to go into the local government fund. There have obviously been changes relating to local property tax and a phasing out of that over the last few years. I am not sure that there is even such a thing as a local government fund now. The Chairman has mentioned a number of different streams of funding to local authorities in addition to those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: There have been changes over the years. We go back to the needs and resources model for distribution and that is largely still in place with regard to the issue I have raised about baselines which are set by local authorities that do not factor in population growth at all. There was a ring-fenced fund for motor tax receipts. That has been phased out. There is not really a local government...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: -----of the major funding aspects. Additionally, it should provide information on what other Departments have a role in funding local authorities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The way pensions are treated is new too because that has impacted on the baselines. It might be small in the overall scheme of things but we need to have as coherent a picture as possible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: No, it does not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The formula counted needs and resources. If a council had a staff of 2,000, that was a need that had to be resourced. If it had four swimming pools, that was a need that had to be resourced. If it had two swimming pools but needed four, it would never get the others because it did not already have them. That is the kind of nonsense to be found in the needs and resources model. It does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Deputy Cassells is right in that the local property tax amounts to approximately 8% of funding as opposed to the commercial rates base, which is well into the 30% range. IBEC was one of the organisations that sought for and supported a local property tax because it believed it would counterbalance-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: -----the business side. Built into the design of the local property tax system is the self-funding element, which is the Houdini trick that was mentioned. Some local authorities are required to spend some of their local property tax on housing and roads, but there are some others that do not. It depends on the baseline. There is such a mask of confusion about the local property tax...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It is not replacing them, though. Irrespective of the local property tax base, there is no prospect of changing the dynamic in terms of the rates base. We need to understand this and focus on our end of the house, that is, process and value for money, so we should not confuse the matter by inviting a particular sector, albeit an important one, at this point. It would help us to understand...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It could end up with us dealing with separate segments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I presume there will be scope to look at items such as broadband.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Things have moved on since then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.