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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: When looking at this, we should not look exclusively at the direct builds. We have to look at them, but also at the acquisitions and how they are acquired, and the long leases, and break them down into segments to see the totality. It is also useful to look at the acquisition cost and the project longer-term costs. That comes into play with this. In regard to the long-term cost, leasing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Is that being looked at? People look at risk in terms of where they are going to work and how they will be looked at afterwards if something happens. Is that looked at in the totality of when people are being recruited and the attractiveness of people being recruited into the Defence Forces?

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I also express serious concern about a number of amendments that have been ruled out of order. Many of these were also tabled on Committee Stage and were not accepted on Committee Stage. In some cases there was a commitment to make changes. However, they have been ruled out on Report Stage. I do not understand how they can be allowed on Committee Stage and disallowed at this Stage when...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We saw some evidence of that the last time the SCA was before the committee. We could see serious progress with regard to slips and falls. That is to be commended. I am still not entirely clear what the SCA looks at when it goes out to such organisations to look at issues such as the handling of serious chemicals. Does it look at whether adequate equipment, such as gloves or clothing, is...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (20 Jun 2006)

Catherine Murphy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the recent surveys conducted at St. James's Hospital, which have shown that as many as 15%, or 50,000 of those teenagers under 18 years of age who have been screened at clinics have been found to have a sexually transmitted disease, many of whom will be unaware there is a problem;...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to congestion, TII has stated it modelled its priorities and looked at congestion. Obviously it looked at accident rates. Twenty years ago a figure was arrived at on how much a fatality would cost so something could be put in as a cost benefit. It is a terrible way to do these things, but it has to be measured in some way. What figure is used? I know TII does not look at...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: How the OPW's portfolio is managed is something that at some point we need to look at. I have experience with a piece of land that went into the OPW because the builder went bankrupt. I understand it is through the Minister for Finance that those types of land holdings or buildings end up in the OPW. Given the crash and all the rest of it there must be an increase in the number of buildings...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Records (2 Oct 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and location of sites at which the Office of Public Works store public records which are ultimately intended to be forwarded to the National Archives in time; for which Departments of State and agencies are records stored at each site; the total cost in 2012 and 2013 for the storage of these records broken down by costs...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: People may have made alterations to business and things like that. Petrol stations have changed quite dramatically over the years and most of them have a very strong retail aspect at this stage. I am still unhappy that we are not really getting to one of the issues, and it may not be for this committee, which is how they model the valuations. In a shop, is the first couple of metres...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I presume there is an understanding that this would have to happen at both ends and it would not just be a bank account that is being looked at. Is the way in which the money got to the bank account also being looked at?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15 - Collection of VAT on e-Commerce
Chapter 16 - Revenue's Suspension of Periodic Reviews of Tax Clearance Certificates
Chapter 17 - Overstatement of Certain Unallocated Tax Deposits (8 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is probably the people at the upper end of the scale who are flying out at 11.55 p.m. and flying back at 12.05 a.m.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I have a final question. Obviously Brown Rudnick had a full six months in which to look at putting together and understand the portfolio on behalf of PIMCO. Essentially, Brown Rudnick would have gone in, looked at the data and signed a non-disclosure agreement. It would have had the advantage of having all of that time to understand what the values of the various loans were. I accept the...

Employment Rights (12 Jul 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The essential point I am making relates to the gap of a year in provision in the case of an employee who has a contract of employment up to the age of 65 . I cited a ruling of the Employment Appeals Tribunal which provided that because it was custom and practice to retire at age 65, the person concerned had to retire at that age. A problem will arise in the gap year when no transition...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 527. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through sales at public restaurants at both Mater Hospital and Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and when is the contract to provide this service at both hospitals next due for renewal. [44839/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the CervicalCheck testing of samples will resume at a hospital (details supplied); the reason for the delay in resuming services at this location: the number of staff that have been recruited for the testing of samples at this location; the number of vacancies that are outstanding [52312/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. There was much controversy around this at the time about the lack of the tender being really tested by virtue of the fact that there was really only one tender in the end. People entered into at the early stages but did not proceed to tender. Looking at an academic paper by Gary Healy, Donal Palcic and Eoin Reeves, the €5,500 that we are discussing to effectively pass each...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We only need look at what was in the news this week about machinery and how there were failures in how it was dealt with at individual hospital level. There is definitely a cultural issue. I know that changes slowly but it does not change at all if a sector is not deliberate in bringing a pace to the change.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Deputy Devlin focused on the resignations from the finance side of the organisation, including the executive director. Some other people departed at the same time, including staff at principal officer level. Was there a commonality to the reason they all left roughly at the same time? This is the Committee of Public Accounts so if there was a commonality, are there any concerns about the...

Crime Prevention: Motion. (10 Oct 2006)

Catherine Murphy: Until recently, most people, if they had heard a description of a €10 million drugs haul at an airfield on the Continent bound for a small unmonitored aerodrome on the outskirts of Dublin using an aeroplane borrowed without the knowledge of its owner, would have assumed it referred to an extract from a television show such as "Miami Vice". Unfortunately, life is beginning to imitate art in...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I will tell Mr. Walsh what I am trying to get at. We have a postcode lottery for services. It is very unequal in some services between one part of the country and another. I had a look at the HSE website in advance of the witnesses coming here, and I looked at the populations of each of the CHO areas, which are vastly different. When I looked at the numbers, it was the 2011 census that...