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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Financial Irregularities (1 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is considering the establishment of a single anti-money laundering supervisory authority for designated non-financial businesses and professions; and if so, the timeframe in which it will be formed. [4469/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (1 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 617. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the current premises owned and leased by the Legal Aid Board; the overall cost of each lease and the duration of same; and if the Legal Aid Board requires her permission in order to enter a new lease agreement and or purchase. [4988/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (1 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 754. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the salary scale in respect of the position of Secretary General of his Department; the point at which the Secretary General is on; and if the Secretary General of his Department is in receipt of the full amount regarding the position on the scale they are on. [4861/22]

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Please do not keep to the script.

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions on and support for this motion. I also welcome the return of people to the Gallery who have a particular interest in this area. I acknowledge Erica Tierney. She is the patient advocate in my area and we chat regularly. We purposely kept this motion narrow and focused because we think this is something that can be done. The Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the length of time persons must wait to secure an NCT booking; his plans to clear the backlog; and if he will consider an amnesty for persons who must wait many months for their booking while their car does not have a valid NCT certificate on display. [5460/22]

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I apologise. I have come straight from the Committee on Public Accounts to the Chamber and I had to negotiate several flights of stairs in between. Like many aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the full impact on the workforce is probably yet to be seen. It will likely take years for us to fully comprehend the massive shifts that have and are taking place. The Department’s estimate is...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise a number of issues. First, I have looked up the figure in respect of metro north that was provided by the NTA under a freedom of information request. The figure is €165.6 million in addition to the €83 million that TII has spent. I wanted to put these figures on the record. We are at nearly €250 million. There have been political changes and...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: -----and some of it has political aspects, but the money involved is sizable. I imagine there are people around the country who are not familiar with that part of Dublin who believe that the project has been partly delivered already and the almost €250 million is just some sort of augmentation, but it is being spent without a single shovel having gone into the ground. At some point,...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Walsh try to keep his answer short? I understand the context and I think most people do.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Are we talking about under-construction projects?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: What impact was there where there was a shortfall in tolls? Was any compensation paid for that, and if so, how much? Will residual compensation have to be paid on roads where compensation is built into the contract where the forecast is lower?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I am not wild about public private partnerships, PPPs, but I hope we never again sign a contract with that kind of compensation tied into it. Apart from anything else, it is completely at odds with our climate obligations. It is a very sizeable sum. The figure of €3.9 million is effectively the baseline, while the figure for 2020 is almost €10 million higher and for 2021,...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It has all the features of a national secondary road-----

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Will the witnesses from the Department reply?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It will cost more.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Did the Department feel that was satisfactory? It cost more than the Department would have liked. Was the project badly managed?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I refer to the supervision of the project. The design was inadequate, given it had to be amended, so that was a fault that would have added to the costs. There was also a dispute between two contractors. How are we to learn lessons in respect of management if we cannot identify what the conflict was?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Mullaney is saying it could not have been delivered for the tender price.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: A good deal of expertise has been built up in the construction of roads but I am concerned about what I heard earlier, and it goes to what the Department said about procurement. Procurement has been an issue with many projects, particularly very big projects, and the national children's hospital is a case in point. I am concerned about what I heard about taking the lowest tender and whether...