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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Did he ask any member of the committee that this meeting not take place?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home schooling for a child (details supplied) will be expedited; if his attention has been drawn to the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17019/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that will be made to provide a school place for a child (details supplied); the options being considered in relation to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17066/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 307 and 308 of 4 April 2019, the reason an executive summary of the report cannot be published on the competence of the IAA after a recent oversight audit on security matters which are of essential importance to the public interest; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an appeal will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is one particular matter, namely, the licence associated with Aughinish Alumina in Limerick. The EPA has responsibility for this and there has been an inquiry into it. The outworking of the matter was not very satisfactory. Obviously, it has been in the news in recent times because of the possible embargo on the owner but it is about looking about how that is handled, finance and the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It would be the same with landfill sites. In my constituency, in excess of €20 million was spent when an unauthorised landfill caught fire. It is about the degree of oversight and also an element of retrospection in the context of where we should be anticipating problems.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The Chairman does not want it to be major business in five years' time. That is essentially the point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: On a note of clarification on the matter Deputy Aylward raised, in case the perception is that a legal person there was running the committee, that was not the case. The Chairman wanted the support of the OPLA and that is an entirely different matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There was.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I know that but since I was there, it is important to note that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The Supreme Court will issue a judgment in due course but it has also commented. I am not here legally; I am here as a Deputy and member of the Committee of Public Accounts. The Kerins case has been misused. We are perfectly entitled to ask questions as long as we do not go beyond our remit. The Supreme Court was particularly careful in highlighting the distinction between the Dáil,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We will have to see invitations in future.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I picked out exactly the same sentence about planning and good governance and the point that policies start with good data. We have never had a greater body of data available to us and the ability to manipulate it because, obviously, we have IT systems that allow us to do that. At the same, we have bigger traffic jams, a shortage of school places, schools in the wrong places at the wrong...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses told us a senior appointment would be needed to get to grips with that. Is there a timeline that the Garda and the CSO are working to so those statistics can be relied on fully?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is a very serious matter when the CSO cannot stand over the crime statistics. Mr. Dalton told us it came to light by virtue of some of the things that ended up in the public domain. Would Mr. Dalton have noticed there was a mismatch in the statistics in any case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We are signed up to EU Regulation No. 223/2009, and the statistics are Europe-wide statistics. How many other similar bodies to the CSO would have a problem with something as significant as their crime statistics? Are we outliers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I want to address two other issues. One is the consumer price index, for which specific categories of things are counted. Is the cost of accommodation counted in the consumer price index?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: What other range is there in that basket?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The census of population is produced every five years, although there have been couple of small variations in that. One of those variations was 100 years ago because we had a civil war that did not allow the census to be taken that particular year. Therefore, there will be a gap before the next release of 100-year data, which is to be in 2026. What kind of lead-in will the CSO need? Does...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Dalton know if that work has started?