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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There just needs to be proper planning and I would like to see that right across the public service. In her opening statement, Dr. Quinn referred to the contingent liability on the outstanding loans totalling €113 million. If we go back to the year before 2019, the maximum exposure was €5 million at the end of 2019 with outstanding loans of €30 million. How has that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. That is fine. We will watch for the Comptroller and Auditor General's report next year. We will get the update then.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: If no one else wants to come in at this stage, I call Deputy Verona Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I call Deputy Colm Burke, who has returned from speaking in the Dáil.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That is everyone who wants to speak. We will be finishing slightly early. I thank our witnesses for joining us today and the staff at the Department for their work involved in preparing for the meeting. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for attending and assisting the committee today. Is it agreed to request the clerk to seek any follow-up information and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The business for this afternoon should be reasonably short. We have minutes, accounts, correspondence, the work programme and any other business. The first business is the minutes of our meeting of 11 November, which have been circulated to members. Does any member wish to raise any matter relating to the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We expect an update on the position relating to Microfinance Ireland when it is audited again. As the Comptroller and Auditor General said, it is not something that is done mid-year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Can we agree to note the accounts and statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. We will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that have not been flagged for discussion for the meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Deputy Carthy has flagged this item.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: No. 878B is correspondence from Mr. Joe Hackett, Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs, dated 8 November 2021 in which he provides information requested by the committee on the appointment of special envoys. The Secretary General states that in September the Minister for Foreign Affairs requested that the Department undertake a review of the role and appointment of special...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I cannot answer that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Next we will deal with correspondence from and relating to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 879C is correspondence I submitted to the committee on 9 November 2021 requesting the committee to make inquiries with IDA Ireland arising from HSE correspondence regarding the procurement of ventilators from China. Obviously, that is self-explanatory. I again ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (24 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which work will commence on the Leixlip to Maynooth section of greenway in view of the fact that it was due to commence in Q4 2021 and the estimated duration to completion and opening. [57840/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount in unclaimed lotto prizes in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the duration of the contract and value of the contract of the independent auditor for the account in which these funds are held; the amount of interest that these funds generate; and the use that is made of accrued interest. [58223/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the provision of funding she has made in the event that she is required to fund a full allowance of the pandemic unemployment payment in December 2021 and the first six months of 2022. [58133/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has engaged with the Minister for Health and the Minister of Finance in respect of the reintroduction of the full pandemic unemployment payment in December 2021 and-or the first quarter of 2022. [58134/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if the roll-out will be expedited of an enhanced media campaign andor public health messaging in respect of ventilation as a mitigation measure for Covid-19. [58247/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I will ask some questions. I wish to pick up on one of the points made by Deputy Sherlock regarding the cultural institutions. I visited the National Library about ten years ago and was horrified by the conditions in which the collection were then being held. I am very pleased that a significant risk to the collection has been mitigated. Work is absolutely necessary. The same applies to...