Results 19,961-19,980 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: An old chestnut that I raise every time the Department appears before the committee is the local property tax. In his opening statement, Mr. Doyle said a further €91.5 million was made available from local property tax receipts to fund housing programmes in certain local authorities. We know there is a self-funding aspect for roads and housing as part of this scheme. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Does the Department anticipate it will look at population shifts?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I will certainly be coming back to this. I thank Ms O'Donoghue. We have seen the use of long leasing increasing in the past couple of years, and it is reflected to some extent in the figures. It was at a low level but has escalated. In advance of that scheme escalating - I know it is intended to dispense with this in the lifetime of the Government - what work indicating value for money...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Where is the value for money over the lifetime of the scheme? It is for a very long time as the authority is committing to pay over 25 years and there is no asset at the end. What work can be shown to this committee on the value-for-money aspect of the scheme in advance of it being escalated?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Is there specific work that was provided to local authorities or which they could have availed of to make the decisions on these agreements?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Doyle have a look?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Has this been assessed against directly building stock and having an asset at the end? What is it assessed against?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Will the witnesses revert with a full response on the value-for-money aspect, whether it is from the Department dealing with public expenditure or housing? This is a very large amount of money and, as I said, there is no asset at the end. There is an affordable housing option in which local authorities are supposed to have a role. Have staff been specifically allocated to local...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I refer to the general Government deficit, the local government system and the development contributions. There were restrictions on local authorities where they had an income from development contributions. They were not permitted to spend at will after the crash. Is that still the case? If so, what is the accumulation of development contributions for the local authorities? Irish...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: However they are not permitted to spend at will even though they have money in the bank account and there may be things that they need to spend that on.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: Will Ms O'Donoghue give us a note on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: I mean from a financial point of view. There may be conflicts of interest given the transfer from local authorities to Irish Water too.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022) Catherine Murphy: When is that likely to happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise three points on this correspondence, the first of which concerns point 5, relating to the legal firm that worked with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, or even its predecessor - it may well have been the Department - on the tender. The tender has been subject to significant additional costs. We know that around 1,000 claims were made. If a firm is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is point No. 5. The second point I wanted to make is on point No. 10, which relates to the completion date. We should go back and ask what sanctions are available for that slippage. There is significant inflation in the construction sector and there is almost a benefit to not completing on time. I want to know would they outline what sanctions are available in that context.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: My point is there was a particular legal firm that provided the main people who advised on the tender and the same legal firm are assisting the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in dealing with the claims. I am asking whether that is robust enough. Is there a conflict of interest, in that they would be defending their own work but they also have the benefit of knowing the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I would like that, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: The second issue is specifically around the completion date. We were not supposed to be able to talk about that, according to the Secretary General of the Department when he wrote to us some time ago, but I want to know what controls are there in terms of sanctions for the constant slippage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Feb 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Point No. 9.