Results 18,841-18,860 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Sorry, but I will stop Mr. Ryan there. I have a very short time. I know sanctions would not be the first thing the HSE would start out to do but they have to be available if there is non-compliance. I really want to get to that net point. Are there sanctions? What are they? Have they been applied?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but if there is an entity that is consistently non-compliant, will the HSE come back not just to me but to the committee with that information? It is very important that we see how exactly the HSE deals with non-compliance.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to get a list of those notices and to understand what issues they are addressing. On another issue, in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report - again, this relates to the 2016 audit - Enable Ireland is the organisation at hand and a breakdown is given of the amount paid right across the country. Kildare and west Wicklow, which would have a population of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Last week, Mr. Reid told us the cyberattack cost in the ballpark of €100 million. Microsoft has a special security arrangement for Windows 7 and there is a replacement programme for computers. I would have thought the cyberattack was in the emergency or urgent category, given what it has caused in disruption of services and the potential cost in lives. Where are we with that...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is no big surprise. How much is being paid for this special arrangement? I ask Mr. Reid to provide a timeline for every member of staff being moved onto a system that is properly secure, such as Windows 10 or another system that is more modern than Windows 7. He accepted it is a risk. Was it not on a risk register? It is not like it was not known that these licences were not going to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: If Mr. Reid can do that, it would be appreciated.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I think by the time the OPW gets the letter we would both agree that it will probably be near the end of the quarter. We need to make sure we do not go beyond that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We all know that the only item on the agenda is the measurements.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is indeed and it is not just the State that would be the big loser here. It also affects the individual employees when they come to require pensions and welfare payments. There is a very different status. We saw this very clearly with the case of RTÉ. It is a potential loss but it is also very precarious employment. I believe that social welfare or social protection is another...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Part of the reason that we asked the commission in was because on a previous occasion they came across as very chaotic and we wanted to see if things had changed. I think we were quite impressed with them when they came in as they were quite forthright. The tables certainly demonstrate that a lot of work has been done to deal with outstanding cases. At this stage the caseload looks...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That judgment is quite useful in terms of it pointing to the obligations of the drivers. It is extraordinary that they were using their own phones, insurance cover and so on. It is worth reading just to get a flavour of it because I think more and more we are going to be looking at the issue of precarious employment. The judgment gives a flavour of the obligation from the drivers' perspective.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: On the DART interconnector, I requested some of this information because we need to make sure that, where possible, the work previously done on it is reused. This project is the game changer. I recall Barry Kenny making the point that if it came online, it would ensure there would be up to 100 million journeys per annum. It is the kind of project that requires to be done if are to get to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: In the main we will deal with that in some detail when we have NBI in front of us. I remember that debate very clearly because we discussed things like road projects where, for example, if a lane is closed there is a penalty for the duration of the loss. Essentially, it was to keep this on track. During Covid-19 the need became even more obvious. If people are going to relocate to work...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There is one paragraph on which we should seek more detail. It is on the second page and starts with, "The statement also acknowledges that as large customers of electricity, data centres also pose challenges". It goes on to talk about energy and states that "the Government will seek to ensure that any downside costs of growing energy demand are minimised by encouraging data centre...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There may well be value in meeting this individual again, even if it is private session, maybe later this year. He has given us valuable information in the past.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have been raising it for some months. It is not obvious what controls are in place, particularly on the part of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, regarding a grant awarded to this particular body. The Chairman said the claims are unsubstantiated and that may well be the case but there are significant concerns. I am concerned about the governance around this and how...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, we should try to find out what controls are in place to comply with good governance regarding allocations it makes, specifically to the organisation in question.