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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Of course it is very unfortunate, but these are all working parents. I am not here to argue how unfortunate it is. I am wondering why it is one rule for one and it is not the same rule for everybody unless, it appears, you are a TD colleague of the same party as the Minister.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: That seems to be what is happening.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I have one more question because the Chair allowed Ms McNally in with no information.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I am concerned with the large number of children who are not being catered for and whose parents are working and contributing to the tax take of this country. There seems to be no understanding. I have one other question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: On the accounts, I want to know what the prepayments were. There was an advance in 2021 and 2022 to Bus Éireann. In 2021, it was €8,990,000 and in 2022, it was €13,244,000. Why would we be making advance payments to Bus Éireann?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: For school transport.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: So you prepay. Does Bus Éireann prepay the independent contractors that it hires?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: What are the accrued expenses which doubled in the year 2021 to 2022 to just short of €8.5 million? What are the accrued expenses?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: That is included in the other expenses. What are the accrued expenses at a rate of €8.5 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: The accounts refer to Bus Éireann’s accrued expenses.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timeline for the new employment scheme for non-EEA fishermen; the estimated start date for the employment scheme, which was to replace the atypical working scheme for non-EEA fishers; when stakeholders will be notified and informed of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22062/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the provision of school bus transport for the 2024-25 academic year for secondary school students travelling from Kilmore, County Wexford into Wexford town; if a resolution similar to the one recently found for students travelling from Gowran, County Kilkenny into Kilkenny city has been determined; and if she will make a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: I say to Mr. Wall that was a somewhat a concerning engagement. All I can say is that it brings to mind the expression, "A poor workman blames his tools." I will leave it at that. I want to deal with the Rhebogue acquisition. I am concerned on a number of fronts. I realise we do not have present all the actors we previously engaged with but I certainly remember robust engagement,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Kelly possibly. My understanding is that the title is “chief commercial officer”.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: At the point of time in question, what was the remit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: A broad portfolio, but those building estates would have had an understanding that stamp duty was required in any transaction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: Was it brought to the attention of the governing authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: Did that invalidate the contract, or did it go back to the governing authority for reappraisal?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: Again, I do not know. Could Professor Kilcommins tell us where the process, as outlined at the previous committee meeting and in all the reports, failed, thereby bringing us to this point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: Framed by whom?