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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The point is that the expertise is being bought in from the private sector. We possibly need to have a beefing up of the public sector side in this regard. I will move on as time is tight. The witnesses talked about penalty clauses on the contracting side. Are there penalty clauses on the side of the contractor or contractors? If so, what are they and how many are there?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Can I have that in English, please?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Therefore, there is no value, given construction inflation, in dragging it out because there is a penalty to put an end to it.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Are there penalties on the contractor side with regard to other aspects?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I am not sure about a point I raised at the beginning of the meeting. Reference was made to some figure from €30 million to €40 million.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We got a list that showed €40 million. I would have said the €6 million was possibly a sum that would be deducted from the costs, if it is something that can be brought forward, rather than adding it to the cost. Why am I picking that up wrong?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Murphy: In his opening statement, Mr. Pollock said: "The final cost is in line with international benchmark costs for hospitals of a similar scale and complexity." I do not want to take that as a given. I want to see what it was compared with. We are hearing it is going to be the second-most expensive hospital in the world. I want to know what it was benchmarked against. If the witnesses do not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Cases (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of criminal cases arising from breaches of section 172 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 since its introduction; the number of investigations that have taken place regarding suspected breaches of section 172 in the same time period that did not follow through to criminal conviction; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who have passed the course in the context of the funds in 2016, 2017 and 2018 that ETBs received from an association (details supplied) in order to run the level 5 Quality and Qualifications Ireland training programme; the number of staff required to run the programme; the number of programmes nationally in each of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the amount transferred from the HSE to an organisation (details supplied) for the provision of services since 2004; the number of times the service level agreement between the HSE and the organisation has been updated and or amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5693/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the HSE has audited the services provided by an organisation (details supplied) that it funds; if the HSE has identified shortfalls and or inadequacies in services that the organisation provides; the number of complaints received by the HSE in respect of the organisation from service users and or patients and or persons representing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of service providers for full and part-time care of persons funded and or contracted by the HSE by CHO area; the number of clients in those service provider's care by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5695/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a new round of funding will be made available to the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to allow applicants that have already applied to get approved for home loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5100/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council Funding (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 678. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to reverse cuts in local heritage plan funding used to implement local heritage plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5201/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council Funding (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 680. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide the Heritage Council with additional funding in order to fulfil its role in providing a community grant scheme in 2019 and 2020; if a similar funding stream can be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5239/19]

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is important - we probably all have done it - to start by acknowledging the brave campaigners, such as Vicky Phelan and those who went public, but also the quite sizeable number, with whom some of us engaged, who did not go public but where information was fed back and forth. All of them should be considered as having done the State some service. Even though we are in a difficult...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There were questions within some of those statements.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I too am happy to get the responses to the questions I posed and hopefully the Minister will have time to come back on them.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: No, but some of them have been answered as the other Deputies have raised similar issues. The Taoiseach made a commitment in the Dáil that no woman would have to go to court, yet we are continuously seeing court cases. It is important there is an understanding of what the State can and cannot do in respect of court cases. Does the State have the legal standing to take a court case...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Election Monitoring (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which the public competition for election observers and the specific subject of disability will be in line with the Civil Service public equality duty; if requests for appeal on the grounds of disability will be independently considered; the arrangements in place for election observer appeals; the arrangements made for disabled...