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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended by his Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if he will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60932/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended by his Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if he will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60939/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount expended by her Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if she will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 294. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the orthopaedic needs of children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus; and the steps he will take in relation to same. [60896/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended by his Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if he will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60940/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for 100 extra neurology nurse specialists across Ireland; and if he will consult with the group in respect of this campaign. [61038/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of neurology nurse specialists by location in the State; and his plans to engage with the HSE with a view to the provision of increased capacity and resourcing in this specialist area. [61039/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount expended by his Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if he will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60931/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 365. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount expended by her Department in each of the past five years to date in 2021 on electricity costs in tabular form; and if she will provide an additional schedule that sets out all energy costs associated with their ICT hardware, that is, servers and so on in tabular form. [60944/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Good morning everyone. It is not ideal that we are not in the committee room but those are the times we are in. I would like to ask Mr. Cody a few questions and time is short so I would appreciate it if he could keep his replies as short and succinct as possible. I want to start off with the debt warehousing scheme. Understandably, that was an initiative that sought to keep as many...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: They could end up with quite a lot of debt because it is for a protracted period of time that this tax bill is being deferred. I presume reviews will be undertaken. Are there any plans with regard to the how this will work? Is it likely to be targeted or will it continue to be general?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. Cody. I want to move around some of the areas we are going to cover this morning. I want to discuss the suspicious transaction reports, STRs. I note there is a very low level of additional tax relative to the number of reports that Revenue gets, but we do not know if, following a Revenue audit, something further and substantial would be gathered as a consequence. How do...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. The rating system was devised in 2014. Has it been reviewed since then?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Cody, but I want to ask a few more questions. In regard to the review, would Revenue be looking at bitcoin cryptocurrencies which are much more dominant now than they would have been in 2014. In a reply to a parliamentary question, I was told that VAT applies where payments are made using those types of currencies. For example, Revolut was not used in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Has Revenue received an OECD policy framework in respect of cryptocurrency assets? Does it implement such frameworks when it receives them? How does that function?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I will skip to a couple of other issues. I do not mean to be rude. Time is short. I appreciate the 1997 Act, but there have been high-profile cases. I refer to one case in particular that went to the Tax Appeals Commission but was still being negotiated with Revenue at the time. It was subsequently settled for substantially less than the original amount of money for which the firm was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Apologies have been received from Deputy Sherlock. Deputy Devlin has advised that he will be delayed, as has the Chairman, Deputy Stanley. I welcome everyone to the meeting. Due to the current situation regarding Covid-19, only the clerk, support staff and I are in the committee room. Members of the committee are attending remotely from within the precincts of Leinster House. This is due...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. McCarthy for his presentation. Before I call Mr. McKeon, it is important to note that the committee very much appreciates that some of what we will examine today will have happened due to the pandemic. That is the introduction of the PUP scheme at very short notice. The amount of work and effort that went into getting the scheme up and running very quickly was a significant...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The lead questioner for the committee today is Deputy McAuliffe, who will have 15 minutes. The next speaker will be Deputy Munster, who, along with all other members, will have ten minutes. I will allow members in for a second round if time allows.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The Deputy has two minutes remaining.