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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Will it be one report or a few distinct reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: If the decision is made to appoint the preferred bidder, the level of detail that will be provided is not known at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I do not wish to labour the point but a related matter is that some of the fixed wireless providers contacted some members of the committee after some of our hearings, when there was a headline figure on the per metre costs. Some people told me they expected a reduction at wholesale level following their dealings with Enet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am talking about the MANs. The quotes did not decrease but rather increased. I am not sure we got the information here that was-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Very well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: He is concerned with regard to the trilocation issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I apologise if I am going over territory that has been gone over already. It is because I had to leave the room to attend another meeting. I want to refer to page 3 of the opening statement in regard to data protection. Many multinational companies have their European headquarters in Ireland and they are particularly in the area where data and data protection is a very prominent issue....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: On the data protection area, I am curious about the extent of the independence of the Data Protection Commissioner. Yesterday, the communications committee was told it would not be able to release a report into the public services card until it got the go-ahead from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which is the lead Department in that regard. Has Mr. O'Driscoll...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I want to cover a few other areas, some of which have been covered already, including that of direct provision and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: Page 16, on Vote 24, deals with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. There was a saving of €800,000 due to not proceeding with an investigation into wrongful cancellation of fixed charge notices. My understanding is there are queues of work for GSOC. Could those funds have been used at the time to deal with some of those queues?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I wish to move to an issue within Irish prisons, namely, tuberculosis, TB. The committee is looking at preventable issues, such as claims to the State Claims Agency. There was a relatively significant outbreak of TB in Dublin prisons, possibly Mountjoy, some years ago. Has there been a change in how such an outbreak is handled? It is a notifiable disease. Were there issues in terms of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: The committee held a significant number of hearings some time ago regarding Templemore and dealing with the issue of bank accounts. The Prison Service holds certain bank accounts. It seems to have changed bank in 2018-19. Is that something with which the Department deals or is it exclusively within the remit of the Prison Service? For what reason would it change banks? Would it be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I ask Mr. O'Driscoll to send a note on that issue. There are several underspends in Vote 24. On page 16, it is noted that the estimate for the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner was €7.5 million but the outturn was €6.1 million. That primarily relates to payroll expenditure. What is the reason for that underspend?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I understand that there was an unusually high level of recruitment while the office was ramping up. Is it now at full capacity?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: How many people will be employed in the office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: Where are those staff located?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I wish to touch on the Probation Service. It seems that the level of recidivism is reduced when the Probation Service works well and, in that light, funding it is an investment. Is there sufficient capacity within the Probation Service?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: What kind of skill sets are being recruited? Given that it currently has 404 staff, towards what capacity is Mr. O'Driscoll working?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: How many community service supervisors are we talking about? Obviously, they are spread throughout the country.