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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: We could have the Department of Justice on one day and then the Irish Prison Service, Vote 21, on the second day, with the catering and ancillary services, to keep them compartmentalised.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: That might be a more coherent approach because we are breaking it up over-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: It may be the case that they have a limited number of people they can bring along. It could be broken up dealing with the Department of Justice on one day and the issue of catering in prisons on the second day. Then, they may well bring along different people the second day. While it may be the Secretary General, it may be different people who are there in support.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Could we break it up? We could still have them in but could simply look at the agency staff or even the section 38 organisations costings, which is a big issue in its own right. I have no problem with them coming in for one of the sessions in December and having another one in January, as long as we properly compartmentalise them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: The section 38 and section 39 organisations are where the big money is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I also want to raise the issue of the appointment of a Supreme Court judge and the process around that. The Government obviously has a role in the appointment of a judge but it is the responsibility of the Opposition to hold the Government to account. We should not be blocked in doing that. As has been pointed out already, there has been precedent in the discussion in this Chamber of an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: It is really quite insulting to say Private Members' time should be used for this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: The Tánaiste knows that the way in which it rotates does not result in the kind of scenario we would want for questions and answers. He knows that. He knows there is a precedent because a former Minister, Ms Fitzgerald, came in here and answered questions. There was a back-and-forth exchange. Therefore, the Tánaiste should not insult us with the throwaway remark that it is our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: The Deputy is just worried about the greyhounds. He should not worry about this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Is my time being taken up by this?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: The reality is that we were told there was one process, and the one process was a JAAB process. To me, that sounds like everything else was binned and there was a foregone conclusion, which materialised because there was one process and individuals were excluded from it. That is the only thing we can take from what the Taoiseach said during the week. Does the Tánaiste concur with that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Good process.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Accident Investigations (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the final report into the Rescue 116 crash will be published. [37466/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Search and Rescue Service Provision (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the current search and rescue contract expires; if there is an option contained in the current contract to extend it beyond the initial term; and if he or his predecessor has had engagement with a company (details supplied) in respect of the current and next contract. [37467/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional funding that has been proposed to assist local authorities manage finances shortfalls in a post-Covid-19 environment and for the fiscal year 2021; when measures will be advised to local authorities; if consideration has been given to the current problems with local authority funding disadvantaging some local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to roll out the discretion in permitting increases in HAP caps in respect of local authorities outside Dublin in circumstances in which no properties within HAP limits are available on the open market and refusals of HAP above the current limits are driving families into homelessness whereby in Dublin families are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the homeless HAP limit to 50% which is the current rate in Dublin to counties Kildare, Meath and Wicklow in circumstances in which there is no affordable accommodation available in the three counties within the HAP limits and families are forced into homelessness by virtue of the caps being so low and in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider revising the HAP limits which particularly negatively impact frontline workers on low incomes that are single (details supplied); if he has considered a more sustainable way to avoid a local authority being the agent of homelessness and in which other some authorities are permitted to award higher rates...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to detail the review into funding of local authorities that was due in 2019 and deferred to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37495/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Health if regional public health centres, primary care centres and hospitals will be granted and or retain additional resources and staff when level 5 restrictions are rolled back; and the way in which further outbreaks of Covid-19 will be proactively addressed in 2021. [37470/20]