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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Hume know the ratio?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will now ask about the non-pay element of GSOC's budget. Obviously, the bulk of that goes on the accommodation. GSOC has accommodation in Dublin and Cork. It is leased accommodation. In the event of there being sanction for additional staffing, will that accommodation be sufficient? Is it future-proofed and is there a break clause in it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the types of admissible complaints. One of them is discourtesy. Presumably, that is the kind of thing that goes directly back to the Garda. Does GSOC then follow up to see that there is training to address some of the issues, or is that just something that is left exclusively to the Garda itself?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: On protected disclosures again, obviously when a case is closed and findings are made, you have to go back then, for example, when some issues have to be picked up by the Garda itself. What follow-through is there with regard to changes that would be made internally within the Garda? I do not understand where the relationship would be then in how it is picked up following the closure of a...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I presume they share it with the Minister as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The obvious one there is No. 3, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. That is obviously a conflict of interest. There was a previous case of another education and training board, ETB, which we are very well aware of, and it went beyond a conflict of interest. This is the kind of-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I would have thought this was something that ETBs were particularly conscious of in view of that example. Has this issue been addressed in the back and forth the Comptroller and Auditor General has with entities his office is auditing? What remedy have they put in place in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We had a discussion on the International Protection Office. I may not have been paying the kind of attention I should have but I had understood the accommodation for the International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, and temporary protection was going to be a kind of parallel discussion with that. Is this included as an issue for discussion? It hardly is when Tusla representatives...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No. So we have not included that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: To be honest, it is about controls, how the process works, the amount of money, and the kinds of tenders that are being provided. I believe that several of us wanted to talk to the Department about this whole area.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am not saying we would do it in one day but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: For whatever reason I thought that we had agreed to pretty much do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: On reports, the reason we brought the Department of Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners before us was because there was an issue that was common ground. We wrote to the WRC, so obviously the response to that would be another component of a report. We do not want to make work for Sam but there are useful issues that could be included in such a report as well.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 414 and 415 of 12 December 2023, for an update in respect of his consideration of the business case; if it has passed decision gate 1; and the amount that has been drawn down to date in respect of the progression of the project. [5272/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Education Welfare Service (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 416. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of educational welfare officers within Tusla Education Support Services; the number of open cases they each have assigned to them; the backlog of case per officer; and the average time to close a file. [4917/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if respite and other supports will be provided to the parents of a persons (details supplied); if he will provide details of a plan for their care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4995/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (1 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am aware that things are moving in Brussels, but they move very slowly. In the meantime, we will have a problem with transparency. An over-the-top approach has been taken. In this regard, consider what is happening in other jurisdictions. The likes of France and Latvia have completely ignored the approach. The measure has been interpreted differently in various parts of Europe. We...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (1 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Shortall. It relates to the change in law by way of statutory instrument last year that, effectively, shut down transparency when it comes to the central register of beneficial ownership of companies. This change came on foot of a Court of Justice of the European Union judgment, but we have interpreted it very differently from other jurisdictions.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (1 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It is having an extreme impact in the way it was handled by way of the statutory instrument. We are aware there are a great number of investment funds. We are also aware of brass-plate companies in the financial services sector. Huge contracts are being allocated by the likes of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE, and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: One of the issues that has been addressed is the gap between the budget and what will be needed. We talked about agency staff, overtime and procurement as some of the areas that are being looked at. I listened to the language. Language always tells you something. For example, the phrases "it is an ambitious programme" and "it is challenging" jump out at me. A supplementary budget is what...