Results 18,261-18,280 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We are told that public consultation dating back to June and July of last year helped to inform the approach to the transposition of the directive. It might be worth asking whether people who made protected disclosures were specifically asked to comment on their experience because there is nothing like people who have had direct experience telling you what worked and what did not. At this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That is the point. Sizeable amounts of public funds have been transferred to HRI. The origin of this is the gambling tax. Essentially, we know this industry employs many people. It is an industry that needs to be protected. I would have thought this was one of the basic issues identified. We had queries on the letter of 7 May. It was unclear whether the reference was to three quarters...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am fine. I only wanted to comment on the matter of CCTV. I have spoken on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The previous Committee of Public Accounts did some work on this and there is some correspondence which we have agreed would be circulated because there is useful information in it. We have to insist on getting the update. They said some of the responses included overtime and shift work. That is not what we are trying to get at here. We are trying to get at the issue, which came up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We will not know if it is a full and final settlement to start with. The Revenue audit has the ability to look back and we know that is under way. The key issue is that 78 people were essentially offered contracts where there was concern that these were inappropriate temporary contracts. In RTÉ, there are people on genuine contracts on a temporary basis, but these were people who...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Some of the information is very useful, but it is very hard to piece it together. We have received a letter from the Department of Justice in regard to the legal costs and compensation paid in respect of legal claims managed by the Irish Prison Service. The Department is very definitely saying that the Irish Prison Service manages that area but, as we know, the State Claims Agency will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The second table is useful. The ratio between the compensation paid and the legal fees is important. If we are going to change things, for example, looking at how we reduce costs, sometimes it is about how we do things in terms of a very legalistic process. For example, where a prison officer is injured in work and is out for six months, there would be medical costs and compensation paid....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have full confidence that the members representing the Committee of Public Accounts on Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, will follow up on this thoroughly. It would be useful to have a note after each of those meetings so that we have a consistent record of who attended and the agenda pursued. It would be helpful for those of us who are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: No, it is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: At what point does the Comptroller and Auditor General get sight of, or sign off on, some of the accounts we discussed last year? We might be able to see some of what is happening when we can see those accounts. Obviously, the Joint Committee on Health is dealing with this issue as well. It is very much a current issue. I am asking about getting sight of firm numbers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is fine with me if the matter is referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is welcome that representatives from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage are coming in but there is a wide remit in that Department, including local government and there is quite a lot that requires scrutiny. We are all finding the meeting unsatisfactory. One can do very little in five or even 15 minutes and this is a gigantic area. We have to accept, even before...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cybersecurity Policy (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 52. To ask the Taoiseach if a schedule will be provided of IT and email security costs incurred over the past five years to date; and the contractor engaged to deliver the services and or system. [27422/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the cessation of a discount on Bus Éireann services for persons with epilepsy; if he has engaged with the NTA on this issue; and his plans to reinstate the discount benefit. [28547/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite the work underway in respect of the transfer of lands to a local authority via the Chief State Solicitors Office in order for the process to build additional school buildings dedicated to the needs and education of children with autism (details supplied); and the details of any impediments that may be causing an undue...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding as part of the UBU scheme administered in 2019 and 2020 per county and per capita in terms of youth population in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28543/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Pensions (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds on which a public servant may be granted early retirement and pension entitlement (details supplied). [28611/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Pensions (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will engage with the Director General of the Irish Prison Service in respect of a prison officer that is not permitted to return to work and also will not be permitted to be medically retired (details supplied). [28612/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 12 May 2021, the number of drivers summoned to court for failure to pay a fixed charge notice within the statutory payment timeframe for the offence of holding a mobile phone while driving by District Court in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the number of drivers convicted per year...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (27 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: On the opening comment, why has the interconnector tunnel not happened already? The old Great Southern and Western Railway terminated at Heuston Station. It needs to be connected. It went to railway order in approximately 2015. It is only a comment. It is the game changer and the missing piece, which is not to say the western rail corridor is not important, but this requires to be done....