Results 15,521-15,540 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We are all in favour of improving things and freeing administration staff to do other things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am not sure that is relevant to this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is important to acknowledge that although this is one letter, the committee is concerned about the matter. Ideally, we would reach some conclusions next week rather than allowing this to run to the new year. We need that kind of urgent response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I want to make three points. I continue to be dissatisfied that we do not have oversight of Irish Water. There were major transfers of infrastructure involved. Somewhere in the region of €11 billion in assets - some of them were liabilities - went to Irish Water. We need to examine Irish Water's income, which is primarily from public funds. It has an income from commercial water...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I ask that we write to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government about the consideration of local authorities' baselines. When will the cross-departmental group make decisions in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Kildare County Council lost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously that concerns paediatrics, but one of the matters we are likely to examine with the HSE is the matter of outside service providers. Along with other Deputies I was at a meeting with our community healthcare organisation, CHO, at which it was confirmed that the HSE is carrying out a major audit of a lot of the big providers. There is clearly an issue around value for money here....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The accounts refer to a fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are welcome. I have one or two questions arising from the opening statement. One of the things we do is try to decode language or spot things that may imply something that one expects to mean something different. I have two questions in that regard. The first is on the Blanchardstown facility. It was handed over to CHI. Since we last met, services have commenced there....
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: As I have limited time, I would like a response to my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: When will the facility be fully operational?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: When it is expected to be fully operational?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: So, Ms Hardiman cannot be sure it will be fully operational in 2020.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am trying to get an idea of the challenges of operating this small facility.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am sorry but I must move on. Many of the issues in regard to this facility are matters for the Joint Committee on Health. I am trying to deal with matters relevant to this committee. We are building a hospital that is to be completed on a particular date from the point of view of BAM and other contractors walking off the site and the hospital being handed over. The operation of this...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Gunning might provide a follow-up note to the committee on how that has changed over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The architectural side will probably reduce and other specialties will probably increase so Mr. Gunning might provide a note outlining how that has changed.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: How does this project compare with a private sector build or other public sector build in terms of the level of administration? Is there any variation in that regard, or is it pretty similar?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I do not mean to diminish the role of administration because it is critically important, but I wanted to know how it compared. Following a lengthy discussion on this issue last year, the committee published a particular page in its periodic report which contained a table of the various components.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is page 88 of the committee's periodic report. Leaving aside building inflation and other issues arising from design changes, the project is on course to complete at a cost of €1.43 billion. In terms of this table, are there variations from what was presented last year? If the witnesses do not have that information to hand, they might provide the committee with an updated table...