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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (20 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made on implementing all aspects of the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010 - 2030 that are relevant to her Department and bodies under her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8616/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Archives (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will initiate a dialogue with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in order to make available or release, or both, Land Commission records in the context of the decade of the centenaries events and themes for the period 2019 to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8923/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Archives (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: My question is on the same theme. I have written to the Minister about the Land Commission records, which were an all-Ireland set of records. They are publicly available in Northern Ireland but completely private in the Republic. They date back to approximately 1892. The critical issue is that a new arrangement came into place in 1922 across all Departments. This is an example of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Archives (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: They are a treasure trove. The corresponding records up to the foundation of our State are publicly available in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland so it is difficult to understand why they are not publicly available here. I accept these are paper records and that they are fragile and need to be handled and digitised to enable access without compromising the data source. The type...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Archives (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Some of the documents about which the Minister speaks are wills and so on and they are publicly available in the National Archives. We are discussing historical documents. While our lifespan is pretty good I do not think it stretches back to the early 1880s or, for most people, the early 1920s. What I am hearing is the Minister's refusal, put in a nice way. This is a missed opportunity....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cycling Facilities Provision (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 10 July 2018, the date on which works will commence on the changeover; the details of the recommendations of the report; the progress made on implementing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8870/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Given that the publication of that report coincided with a significant reduction in the cost per metre of fibre, had it been published a year ago it would have or is likely to have brought that reduction at that point. We are owed an explanation as to why publication was delayed given that it had that impact. It would be well worthwhile to write back and ask them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is one further aspect to this on which it would be useful to have clarification and which arose on a number of occasions last week. I refer to the mapping process and the possibility of duplication. I think we can go back to them and ask them just exactly what has been mapped because there are public entities that have fibre like the ESB and Bord Gáis. We need to know if they...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I remember well the context because I proposed the approach. It was in the context of discussing the national children's hospital overrun that we considered how the process could lead to a repeat of the difficulties in other projects if we did not have some understanding of what happened. It was surely around process. In fact, it was not only the Secretary General we invited. We also...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I presume that is part of the reason this issue features very often when the committee looks at audit opinions and this aspect is highlighted for the relevant bodies. I picked out the same paragraph. What is the liability? Is it likely to have an impact on bodies' ability to deliver services - for example, the Residential Tenancies Board - and is there a repayment schedule for them? Have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I want to get my head around an aspect of the issue. The bodies have to recover an amount from external sources. On the expected liability on those who purchase the services, for want of a better description, is it the case that the bodies will have to go back to service users to ask them to pay more than they had expected to pay?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Let me go back a little. Who, for example, are the clients of the Residential Tenancies Board? From whom will it recover the amount?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Does the RTB have to go back to all of the landlords?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I am sorry-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I have a further query for the purposes of clarification. For example, the income of the Residential Tenancies Board comes from landlords' registration fees. Landlords who registered paid the registration fee and were legally right in what they did; it is the landlords who do not register are the problem. The ones who registered were told that the fee was €150 or whatever it was....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I would.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I want to make the point that I am happy to go along with whatever rule so long as we all understand it but if, for example, it is a question that the Chairman will be looking back at rotation, one does not get a fair reflection if members have not turned up and one is filling in.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That aspect has to be captured if we are to have a fair system, not only just for now but for the future as well because we could all turn up for something for an hour and not do all of the work. That frequently happens and there is a sizable amount of work in the Committee of Public Accounts.