Results 11,801-11,820 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Murphy: It is obvious, from looking at page 7 of the accounts, that 2016 was a significant year. It would not have mattered would was President at the time but the incumbent played a central role. Is the Comptroller and Auditor General aware whether the difference for 2016 relating to the Office of Public Works involved physical changes to the Áras or would that all have been accounted for by...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Murphy: There would have been a programme of events also.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Murphy: I was on the centenary committee, which had some engagement with the various elements of that particular year. I presume Áras an Uachtaráin would have been involved in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Murphy: I raise a small issue. There was a change from 2015 to 2016 in respect of expenditure by the National Shared Services Office. Obviously, this is related to salaries. Given that many, although not all, Departments and State organisations are covered by the National Shared Services Office, payroll is obviously the big ticket item. Staff numbers in the President's office did not change so...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Murphy: It is the figure on expenditure by the National Shared Services Office, Vote 18, on page 7-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Murphy: The staff numbers did not change from one year to the next.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (26 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: 213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount and proportion of plastic waste generated that is sold or diverted to incineration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38933/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (26 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: 215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if recyclable plastics that are coloured black are actually recycled here; if not, the steps he is taking to address this issue, inform the public regarding same and to prevent such material from entering the waste stream; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38935/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (26 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if plastic waste generated here and sold or diverted to incineration can be counted in the measure of recycling rates; if he will seek assurances from a company (details supplied) that its reported rates of recycling do not include plastics sold or diverted to incineration; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: If one has a deficit, one must fund it from somewhere. There would have to be approval within the organisation's board to raise a loan from a bank or whatever. Is there any common denominator in that? Are there governance issues about which there are obvious problems? How are the deficits funded?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: However their governance would require them not to operate with a deficit. That must be approved somewhere, I presume?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Does it include a name?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Can the person be identified?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Is the Chairman proposing to go back to Mr. Owens?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Just because the legislation dates from 1866 does not mean that it is wrong. My memory of the particular case is that money was unnecessarily paid in advance of goods being received. Further controls were put in place afterwards. Would a change in legislation have made any difference?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: When we met the representatives of the Tax Appeals Commission, what they told us about the circumstances under which they were working was jaw-dropping. They referred to computers going on fire, moving office with only two week's notice and so on. If we do not have a proper system in place we should not be surprised that we are not getting information in a timely manner. In actual fact,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously the Garda are looking at an aspect but will not be looking at the totality of the report. How do we get to the point where we can isolate what we can do and what is subject to the Garda investigation? We should not simply bypass the totality of the report by virtue of the fact that there is a Garda investigation. There are other aspects of the report that merit scrutiny.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Catherine Murphy: May I just say something about procurement as well? There is a process which we see repeatedly that all public bodies are expected to go through, but there is another issue with procurement in terms of value for money. We saw this with the library services, for example. They were bundled together and in fact what happened was that we lost the local jobs and local availability and they were...