Results 19,741-19,760 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Is it the case that the TII does not have that expertise and is looking for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Is that submission available? If so, can we see it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: If the TII can do so, I ask that it would make it available.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Where people overpay a toll, that is included in the revenue of the toll operator. Dublin Bus, for example, has a scheme, a community initiative to which overpayments go. This is not legitimate revenue, really. I have received replies indicating that this is happening and the toll operators are putting this money into their own revenue. Will the TII structure into future contracts that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I have a fairly short observation. It seems that some of these are fairly regular items. How far in advance does the Prison Service look at cleaning services, for example? If it has a three-year contract, does it look at it in year two and work out when it needs to do a tender or that kind of thing? If it does not do so, that is where difficulty arises in the context of procurement. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I want to know how it plans its procurement. There are things that are known. For example, if there is a contract with a company, the length of the contract is known. What is the process in advance of the review such that there is time to include a tendering process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It has become more complex, especially when it is at a particular level, with European requirements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Unlike Revenue, the Statute of Limitations does not apply to this. It is confirming in writing what most of us probably knew. It is welcome to have that. The process is they will go through 500 individual employment files. That is a piece of work they should be left to do but we should definitely put it on the work programme coming towards the end of the year to ask for an update about...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Could we ask for a schedule of the number of complaints as well? There is a presumption in the way this is written that the complaints are all one way. My understanding is they can go both ways. Within that schedule, can we have both the ones that are referred from GSOC and the ones that are referred to GSOC?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I am sorry, but we were given information on fraud debts broken down by scheme. Are those proven to be fraud? Whenever we have this debate with the Department, we learn that some of the debts in question are administrative-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Overpayments and such like. Has fraud been proven in respect of these cases? I am unsure, so we might follow up on that. While it is legitimate that residency checks at airports and the like happen, it looked like racial profiling at the beginning of the pandemic. It is worth asking the Department whether any of that could have been categorised as racial profiling.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I am happy enough with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Sometimes, the error made is on the Department's side.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Someone else might wish to contribute first.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: May we seek an update from the OPW on the National Gallery so that we can have a better understanding of the original estimate and the eventual cost? I suspect that it will fall into the same category as Leinster House. With an historical building, one cannot predict some of the issues that will arise. The amount that is allowable for contingency is limited in every contract. It may well...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Regarding legislation to wrap up Caranua, I do not think that happened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I thank the secretariat for the information. We have a very fragmented body of information. It is not coming from one Department but from many. It is legitimate in relation to State agencies. It is worthwhile putting the jigsaw together to determine the funding profile; it is absolutely of value. I do not believe there is any motive behind an overview, nor do I believe there is anything...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is.