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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: No. It is not a bloc grant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is a baseline set for each local authority. It is based on figures going back to 2000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is the point below which the figure is not supposed to fall but it pays no attention whatsoever to population shifts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I agree with a lot of what has been said but at the same time I believe we have learned lessons about failing to plan. We need to know the ingredient that is different. There is reliance on the likes of the DART upgrade going ahead and on building capacity into treatment plants in regard to the zoning of land. Many of these are interconnected. For instance, headroom is needed if the DART...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We were critical of the lack of a written business case for the public services card. We need business cases. I agree that we do not need to keep repeating them for the same project. Can we find out if there is something different for this? It has a bearing on the kind of rolling stock that is bought if there is not an electrified service and we do not want to do that. This has knock-on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: I think we all are. I have listened to what Ms Denning has said about the legislation. The issue of the 80,000 or 90,000 fines and notices and what it would do to the District Court is serious. Is any of that statute-barred? Is the Courts Service looking at that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: I understand Ms Denning is the Accounting Officer. She is making a differentiation between the Courts Service and the Exchequer but I am afraid that we will not make that differentiation. This is because Ms Denning will be looking for the Exchequer to fund, for example, the refurbishment of courthouses and so on and that is part of where the money comes from. It strikes me that we are here...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: What specific points does Ms Denning refer to when she mentions a change in legislation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: There is a double cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: I have a short time and want to ask a number of questions. The average compensation award for claims by members of the public is €1,600. The average legal cost is €34,000. Why is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: So this is compensation for the solicitor, rather than for the person that is injured.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: It is completely out of kilter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: It is completely out of kilter. On the matter of Hammond Lane project, Ms Denning says it is still owned by the OPW. Is there a protocol to transfer it? Has it been valued?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: If it was to be done as a PPP, who would retain the ownership?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: With regard to the refurbishment of courthouses and the building of new courthouses, economies of scale were thought about when a number were bundled, with BAM as the successful contractor. Did they all come in on budget for the amount tendered for? Were there overruns? What was the profile of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: There is, for example, the maintenance of courthouses that are lying idle, the one in Wicklow being a case in point.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: Obviously, if a building is closed, it must still be maintained, as otherwise it will degrade. Of the buildings the service maintains, is that the most obvious example? Are there other courthouses for which it is paying the cost of maintenance? Is there any it will not re-use and will sell?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: If I remember correctly, from all of the rows I have had at budget time, the local authorities actually used to fund courthouses.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: Therefore, they are getting back some of what they put in.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: They would perhaps not say it was for free.