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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: Interest rates may not always stay low. Of the interest rates for debt we are currently discussing, how much is at a fixed rate?

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: That payment was accelerated, if I remember correctly. What stage is that at?

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 still have a big problem with us having that liability in the first place. Has there been any discussion on our liability in this regard over the past 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 refer to the IBRC unsecured creditors payment of €270.6 million in 2016. How much of that was carried over to 2017 and 20148?

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: Will Mr. Moran explain that figure?

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 Mr. Moran concerns about the oversight of IBRC? Deputy MacSharry raised this previously. It is highly unusual. The High Court usually supervises these situations but in this case it is the Department.

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: Will Mr. Moran explain the payment to Kinsale Energy Limited? To a lay person, there is a hole in the ground, from which oil is extracted. The asset is not ours. What are we getting from it? Am I correct the State is paying a subsidy? If so, why is there a liability in this regard?

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: Yes. When Mr. Moran reverts, he might include the sector. There is also the Corrib gas field. I do not understand how we end up with a liability. I would appreciate it if he could give me that.

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: There is a loan balance of €96 million outstanding in respect of Irish Water. Has it been turned into a grant as opposed to a loan?

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 wish to clarify something. There was a referendum on the fiscal compact rules. That is the framework under which we are working. If GDP is the legally defined definition, as Deputy Cullinane said and as the witnesses agreed, are we in compliance with the fiscal compact rules in the context of the definition using GNI?

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: As a member who is here, I certainly would not be agreeing with Deputy MacSharry in advance of talking to the individual involved.

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 do not think we can ask the committee to do that.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Instruction to Committee (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously I am a member of the committee which debated this Bill. We debated it at pre-legislative stage and then it went through Second Stage and Committee Stage. We knew the aforementioned amendment was coming but as there were some difficulties in ensuring it was technically correct, we are seeing it at quite a late stage, which we had expected. It is not the ideal way to introduce an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a petition by persons (details supplied); if these matters will be raised at a conference at the end of April 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17602/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in the form of one school with junior and senior schools will be reconsidered in view of the successful temporary arrangement with respect to the schools in advance of the completion of the new school buildings; if so, the way in which it will be approached; if not, the reason therefor; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the issue of a junior and senior school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be revisited in advance of the opening of the school buildings; if so, the way in which to achieve this; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17462/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) regarding a contractor entering into examinership and the consequences for a project in Maynooth, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17461/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Data (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out in tabular form the compensation payments made by the Irish Prison Service to inmates and persons on remand in 2016 and 2017 by amount paid; the general nature of each claim made for the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Meetings (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the engagements he has had to date with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the use of phase 2 of the National Indoor Arena that is due for completion in mid-2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17630/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the number of unauthorised developments local authorities are dealing with are monitored by his Department; if so, the details of same by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17416/18]