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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the supports and treatments for persons who are diagnosed with borderline personality disorder on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22795/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We talked about what we should focus on last week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We all now understand that there is a particular piece that does not stray into the inquiry or commission. As I said last week, and still believe, it would be logical to have the whistleblower in here before the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I agree strongly that the dates of audits and the statements are as important as the signature. We definitely need to have this dealt with much earlier. I raised this matter with the Tánaiste on 9 February on Leaders' Questions. I was looking for a copy of the draft report that had been leaked to a newspaper and there was quite an extensive article in January as to parliamentary...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Could I ask for timelines to be included in the report as well? There were different dates when things were known.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I think it would be quite useful to put them in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to some of the issues around the report from Templemore. Mr. Waters was invited in October 2015 onto the committee or group which was going to take this further after it was identified in July.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Waters took up that position in November. Am I correct to presume the Tánaiste would have been fully informed at that stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Commissioner made the point last week that by virtue of the fact the Department was informed, even though there was an obligation on the Commissioner to inform the Minister she made the point that by virtue of the fact the Department was informed she was making a presumption that the Minister was informed, so that would not be correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Waters would have had some understanding of the importance of the subject matter. Would it not have been of large enough importance to bring to the Tánaiste's attention?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Would Mr. Waters be aware that the Tánaiste should have been informed by the Commissioner when this came to light and that there was an obligation on the Commissioner to do so? Would Mr. Waters not have spotted that, as a double safeguard, and brought the matter to the attention of the Tánaiste?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I raised this issue in the Dáil through parliamentary questions in January within days of a report inThe Sunday Timeson the draft interim report. I raised the issue on the floor of the House on 9 February during Leaders' Questions with the Tánaiste who said, in a very dismissive fashion, that the report had been sent to the Committee on Justice and Equality and the Committee of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I raised it with the Tánaiste on the floor of the House. She accepted it and corrected the record of the Dáil in late March. The interim report was provided to the Department in September 2016 and I believe this was to comply with a requirement from the Comptroller and Auditor General with regard to its fulfilling the requirement for the accounts. The Department got that in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Sorry, yes, so it was. The Department, however, received it then.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: This is not a very long document and it does not take a long time to read, except when one must stop and start as it is quite a substantial amount of information for quite a short document. Between the Department of Justice and Equality and the Garda Commissioner - I do not know whose decision it was to publish this report - it took until a month ago in late March or early April to publish...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can I make the point that the Commissioner confirmed last week that the draft report did not change at all from the interim report that was published.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I actually asked the Tánaiste to ask the Garda Commissioner to publish the report. I will move on. With regard to the negotiation of procurement procedures for the commercially owned and run direct provision centres, the Comptroller and Auditor General said in his report this morning that use of that procedure is only permitted in certain limited circumstances which we could not see...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is that still deemed to be in breach of procurement rules?