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- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: The Judicial Council was set up. We are still waiting for the judicial conduct committee. Where is that funded? Does it come under the budget of the Courts Service or the Department of Justice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: How much was provided for and how much was drawn down?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: I imagine the judicial conduct committee is likely to be a more active committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: Will that funding come through the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: We were all aware of the very significant changes in the Department. Somebody from one of the consultancy firms was brought in. Is that person or group of persons still in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: Is there a review of that for the benefit other Departments? Is it a transferable skill?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: The officials drew attention to the improved transparency and accountability. Are there particular examples they would like to highlight to help us understand what they mean by that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: The review of the Department's ICT infrastructure and the capacity to deliver digital services was timely. Did it highlight the need for much additional ICT services and facilities?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: Presumably, the Department has done a business case on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: Is that available to the committee or is it internal to the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: I wish to refer to training and development and incidental expenses. There is a reference to contracted services and an additional €2 million in expenditure. Is that for one particular company? Is that across a range of different services?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: One point raised earlier related to people who were refused entry. If there is no immediate flight available, they are held in prisons. There was a high-profile case at the weekend. Does the Department look at the cost of this, apart from the human cost to individuals? I understand the young woman was ten days, if not two weeks, in the Dóchas Centre. Obviously, there is a cost...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: How much does it cost to keep someone in Dóchas or Mountjoy Prison, for example?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: I can raise it in that context.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: Many people who arrive do not arrive from the EU. The Department maintains they are arriving from outside the EU. Many countries outside the EU will not have direct flights into the country. I presume they come through another country.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020) Catherine Murphy: We are all looking forward to when we can get back to normal from that point of view. I can assume we have concluded at this stage. I thank our witnesses for joining us today and for the information provided for today's meeting. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for attending and assisting the committee today. Is it agreed that we request the clerk to seek any follow-up...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (10 Dec 2020)
Catherine Murphy: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the authority that judges apply to in respect of judicial appointments to the highest court; if she will provide a schedule of the persons that are to be informed that a judge has declared an interest and or applied for the appointment; the details of the persons; and the way in which applications are evaluated. [39123/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Welfare (10 Dec 2020)
Catherine Murphy: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to a report by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in respect of the Irish prison system; if she has engaged with the prison governor in charge of the prison and other senior Irish Prison Service management; and...