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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I will withdraw the amendment on that basis.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (5 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of former prison governors employed as consultants by the Irish Prison Service; the length of time they have been employed; the amount they are being paid; the main purpose of their employment; and if they are assigned to a prison in tabular form. [51043/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if issues with the election observer roster appraisal process have been rectified (details supplied); the reason for the delay; the other steps required to finalise the process; the date on which persons will be placed on the new roster; the appeal process for unsuccessful candidates; the amount expended on consultancy fees to date...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of ambulances that are estimated to be despatched following a 999 call in circumstances in which the person is advised that the wait for arrival to the patient's address is more than three hours is recorded; the number of estimates of this waiting time or above given to 999 callers in an emergency; if the despatch times have been audited; if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51248/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 236. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of complaints and-or referrals to Tusla made by sports bodies (details supplied) from 2014 to date; the number of complaints and-or referrals made regarding sports bodies and-or persons working for the sports bodies from 2014 to date; the number of active investigations outstanding and-or ongoing concerning the sports bodies;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 631 of 27 November 2018, if the project has a full local authority in-house design team; if not, if the project has in-house architectural services and has outsourced the remaining design team externally; the potential local authority fees on this project at each stage through to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 631 of 27 November 2018, the amount to date of staged transfer of funds to the local authority relating to this housing project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51284/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It seems daft that we can raise anything in a document that we are then not going to publish.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to make one point on the home loan scheme. I agree with all that you have said, Chairman, in respect of understanding the workings of the scheme. There are people who have gone through the whole system but still have not been allocated a loan, because the local authority has to negotiate with the Department. It seems that each local authority has to do it. We have found this in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There have been calls for the Central Statistics Office to get involved in dissemination of information on housing and homelessness because of the unreliability of information. It is really important for us to identify the shortcomings in that process. If we cannot measure something, how can we deal with it competently from a policy point of view? It is important for us to get the figures...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The valuation was also dependent on the zoning.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: My understanding of this section of the NAMA Act is the original intention was that the Department would define and set out protocols but this did not happen and NAMA set out the protocols itself. Is the Comptroller and Auditor General satisfied they were as robust as they should have been? Would it have been better if they had been set for NAMA to follow? Should there have been other...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General likely to form an opinion on some of this work?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I understood the agency was to provide the committee with the date on which the slides were sought. We asked for very specific information. Have we received it yet?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The agency has since clarified the matter and acknowledged that 18 women have been waiting, not 22 days as we were told previously, but since last April in some cases.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Their slides.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: They were requested by the women's solicitors and they were to be provided by the laboratories to a laboratory in Ireland, through their solicitor. We were told previously that the women had to wait 22 days to get their slides. We were not told there was a dispute ongoing. The slides of 18, possibly 30, women are now acknowledged as delayed since last April. The committee was misled. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is useful to get information. I acknowledge that the ETBs do very good work and that amalgamations are not easy. That said, we do not learn lessons. The committee's work is, in part, reviewing processes and process failures. These are not going to be the last amalgamations. It appears that in such processes, consideration is given to only a small number of issues rather than the broad...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: On that, there is supposed to be a regulatory impact assessment. Some of them only run to a page. If there was a regulatory impact template was in place, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform could do a post mortem, as it were, on organisations that have been merged. We could then end up having issues placed on that template that would not otherwise have been thought of. As a...