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Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Is there any one that Mr. McDonagh regrets, such as Battersea or the like, where he feels NAMA would have got more for it?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statement 2020 and Special Report 111 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (30 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am just using it as an example. There must be one that Mr. McDonagh has some regrets about.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yield in local property tax from strategic housing developments by county in each of the years 2021 to 2023. [47442/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount, by county, in forgone local property tax in respect of exempted properties from 2013 to date. [47443/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (30 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he will ensure that baselines in respect of local property tax will be equitable in the context of existing and forecasted population growth; and the way in which a local authority may retain increased revenue over redirecting it to an equalisation fund. [47444/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his engagements with his Ministerial colleagues and the Commission for Communications Regulation regarding the issue of cold calls and or potentially fraudulent activities by telephone to persons living in Ireland; if his attention has been drawn to the various media reports on the matter; and the progress to date...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which a CIÉ pension scheme (details supplied) will commence; and if he has engaged with the company in respect of this arrangement. [47785/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail his engagements with the National Building Control Office in respect of defective concrete blocks entering the supply chain; the steps he and-or the office have in place to ensure this is not repeated; and if he will detail the failings by his Department in permitting this issue to arise. [47839/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the appropriate practical rooms will be provided for the students at a school (details supplied); the status of the overall project; and the timelines for the completion of works. [47756/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which basic primary care will be provided to private patients who are unable to access general practitioners due to lack of capacity; the way they are to access the most basic level of primary care; the procedures open to them in seeking primary general practice care and ancillary services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48216/21]

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I broadly welcome the National Youth Justice Strategy and commend the work of the expert steering group in putting it together, as well as the work that went into it at ministerial and departmental level. There is a very welcome focus on children's rights throughout the document. The strategy places an emphasis on early intervention, prevention and diversion, with the use of detention...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (6 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and or his officials engaged with the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in advance of 30 September 2021 in respect of their role in a case involving former directors of a group (details supplied) in its dealings with High Court inspectors that are investigating the company affairs. [48486/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the matter of the State Claims Agency and the contingent liability. Mr. Breen tells us that there are 12,000 active claims. Is a solicitor involved in every one of these cases to get them to the point that they arrive at the State Claims Agency?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Is a solicitor involved? How do claims become active and arrive at the State Claims Agency? I am referring to clinical claims.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. Breen. I want to be efficient with the time so I would appreciate if we can keep the answers short. The contingent liability is in the region of €4 billion but that does not crystallise until the claim is actually paid. Claims are paid as they arise. Will Mr. Breen give a breakdown, for the last three years, of the number of claims that crystallised and were mediated as...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: What accounts for that change?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is heartbreaking to see a family on the steps of the courts after years of legal wrangling. We saw such a case this week. No amount of money can undo damage that is done at birth, in the case of cerebral palsy. Where that damage is caused by neglect or not following up on something, people want apologies and a mediated settlement that is about more than the finances to cover the cost of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: How many of those have expertise in mediated settlements? Are people dedicated to that outcome or is it done right across each claim?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is interesting that the pandemic changed the dynamic. We have had engagement at previous meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts about the value of mediated settlements. It is more cost-efficient and it is also the least damaging way to deal with claims from the point of view of protracted litigation and so on, and also from the point of view of the kind of engagement that should...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: What is stopping that?