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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9937/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Taoiseach outlining some of the details of the European Council meeting. There are two areas of concern for me. One is the fact that the latest round of sanctions includes further seizing of assets belonging to Russian companies and Russian citizens. How might we mobilise those resources to support Ukraine and its economy during any reconstruction, and also to support the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent European Council on 9 and 10 February 2023. [9936/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to improve the average wait time for the better energy warmer homes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9924/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I will take that opportunity to give a shout out to my Aunt Lorraine who agreed naively yesterday to mind my kids until 8.30 p.m. yesterday evening and ended up being there until the best part of 00:40 a.m. I think family friendly arrangements would definitely be beneficial for everyone in this House. I will start my contribution in an area I had not planned. This is to follow Deputy...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Except water perhaps, but we know the negative impact drugs have. However, similar to that debate about the issue of the eighth amendment, we also know the reality and complexity of life and what is in our control and what is not in our control. Rather than us fleshing it out in full today, because it is not really the principal focus of the debate, and I do not often agree with Deputy Boyd...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate Mr. Molloy's empathy, but what we are looking for is his clarity. Empathy is very little help to us in trying to assess whether there is value for money for the taxpayer. That is ultimately what we are doing here. This is not about trying to push anybody to a wall; it is about trying to get to the bottom of this. Who made the decision to provide the funds for the security of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The guts of €27 million was provided to Quinn Insurance to defend a case. My question is who made the decision to provide the funds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I will ask a broader question then. Which of the organisations before us made the decision? Was it the Department or the Central Bank?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: That is incorrect. The auditors are independent of the Government and its resources. The company in question was also independent of the Government and its resources, yet somehow €30 million, or in fact more, of public money was on the table. It is a very simple question - who made the decision to make that public money available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General could be helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Is it correct that ultimately it would have been withdrawn from a fund managed by the Central Bank?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: So ultimately it was on the Central Bank's watch that the money was withdrawn from the fund it managed. It may have been directed to do so, but does Mr. Molloy accept that is where it fell? The Central Bank manages the insurance compensation fund and the money came from that fund.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The insurance compensation fund is a public resource. As Deputy Burke says, it was used to defend a case against another party. It would be reasonable to expect that the outcome of the case would be of public interest, both to the Committee of Public Accounts and to the Central Bank. The money came from a fund administered by the Central Bank. I imagine the Central Bank has an interest...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The Central Bank is aware of the settlement figure. Is Mr. Molloy precluded by virtue of the settlement with PwC from revealing that? Is there a confidentiality clause? Why in God's name did a public body enter into a settlement which precluded the Central Bank from releasing the final figure of the settlement when there was public money involved in defending the case? Regardless of all...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Mr. Molloy, as the manager of the fund, accept that he effectively handed money over but he did not have any real control over it? The Central Bank was not party to the settlement. Were any conditions put in place in handing the money over to ensure that we would have some transparency and value for money? I do not expect Mr. Molloy to defend the decision as he was not party to it but...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: They could equally have been lost to the ICF if the case or if the settlement had gone the other way.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: It is not for the first time that they are acting independently with our money. That is exactly my point. The State provided the assurance there would be funds to defend the case but I do not see the oversight arrangements that were put in place for that decision. Mr. Molloy is right, the Central Bank is the bookkeeper for the account. That is what he is effectively saying but my question...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: My understanding was the ICF was------

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (23 Feb 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I am not asking-----