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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Since the swimming pool programme opened in 2000 there have been four censuses of population. A total of 58,000 extra people have come to live in Kildare. The problem is that there is resentment against development when it is just a case of one dimension, namely, housing. What is really needed is for people to see an advantage in an area growing, but it must grow holistically. Sport plays...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to facilitate an additional specialised educational unit as a part of a campus (details supplied); if the existing units will be extended to accommodate additional pupil needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17177/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I echo many of those comments. The counties of Meath, Kildare and Wicklow have a greater combined population than the whole county of Cork. That is not appreciated. The model for distributing resources dates back to four censuses ago and does not factor in more recent ones. We were told on the day that questions could not be answered because the Minister was imminently going to make an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: No, it was in regard to ghost estates that required funding to be finished.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: To make them safe and then for some to be sold on. If it was possible to recoup some of that money-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It has not been followed up to the extent that it should. There are a couple of quite important issues dealt with in this document. We should hold it over and come back to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Money from this fund was used on very few unfinished estates in Kildare because there were strict criteria governing the estates that qualified.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There were four different tests. They should be easy to isolate. Some estates might have been demolished but others were sold.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There are a few aspects about which I am curious. Based on the analysis we have been given, more was paid out than taken in during 2014. Is there a residual fund?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: By the autumn, we will have forgotten about that correspondence. Will the Chairman remind us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We are also waiting for the Thorn report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Beausang says there are plans for a good deal of activity on this in 2018. Has the Department mapped out the outcomes of this? What can we expect to see in 2018 and 2019? Mr. Beausang spoke of the cost. Can he indicate what sums are involved and over what period? Where does this fall within the pecking order of the Department's work? Is it high priority? Are other things ahead of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What would Mr. Beausang regard as very significant resources?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What is a number of millions? Is it €5 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What are we likely to see in terms of 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: How much is being spent this year?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I will switch between several aspects of the accounts. To give a snapshot of the Central Fund, it includes everything, apart from PRSI receipts. I understand motor tax receipts have been included in the Central Fund since 2017. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Has anything else been changed?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We will be able to see a sizeable difference from this year onwards, given the large amount of money generated in motor taxation.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: However, the amounts are not equal.