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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In respect of Drehid, a planning application was made because we reached crisis point. It looked like there would be nowhere to dispose of waste. I believe the permissions for both the Meath and Wicklow sites were extended on a temporary basis. The proposed Cork incinerator - I am not sure where that is in the process - was being relied on. I am not sure if it is appropriate to this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We are facing a very serious problem. I do not know if this is for the Committee of Public Accounts, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: If the operators of the incinerator in Ringsend do not get a threshold of waste, we have to compensate them. The incineration policy is possibly dictating that. However, the cost of transporting the waste has not been included, in terms of the damage done to roads and the unsustainability of that. There is a cost element to this policy, but it is not a matter for this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Will we all be able to come back to some of the stuff in this report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The one I want to come back to is the clean up of Aughinish but that is for another day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Can we hold it over and come back to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: On that item, he is accepting the invitation but he is also looking for questions in advance. Presumably we do not do that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We want to be fair to them at the same time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What year was the last audit done for the development board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Before that, may I ask one question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What prompted the HEA to seek legal advice in retrospect? Was pressure coming from anywhere to seek that legal advice? We need to know what the drivers are here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What is the Deputy's point? Is it that we are constantly not letting him in before lunch?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We have a separate session in the afternoon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It should be put on the agenda again. I really take exception to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will go back to Mr. O'Toole on what prompted the legal advice. They have expanded on that. Obviously, the HEA initiated this review and had gone a sizeable way and had put funding into it, in staffing and expertise. There was an airing of a preliminary version of the report and then it took some further legal advice. I asked what prompted the legal advice. Was the Higher Education...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We have a very short period of time and I have a lot of questions for the University of Limerick, but I want to dispose of this matter first. Was the nature of the communication with the HEA a "cease and desist" order?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: No but with the HEA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: However, it was a case of "cease and desist" based on questioning the HEA's remit. It then took legal advice. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We might come back to this issue in the afternoon. In regard to the University of Limerick, to many of us on the Committee of Public Accounts it seems as if we are playing a disproportionate role in institutional oversight. That is a criticism of the university, the HEA and the Department of Education and Skills. If these issues are to be caught early, where are the checks and balances...