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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: Another deputy Garda commissioner commented recently that there are more than 300 gardaí. Does Ms McPhillips have the figure for those working in child protection units prior to the establishment of the DPSUs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: Could we request that information?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: I am asking Ms McPhillips's opinion on the DPSUs that do not currently have the capacity to investigate domestic violence cases. Does she know if there is any plan to rectify that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: That is all right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: You forgot about me. I wanted to flag this correspondence, particularly because it relates to previous correspondence and engagement with RTÉ, specifically No. R1198B from the Department of Social Protection. It is about bogus self-employment and RTE workers' cases. I do not feel the Department of Social Protection's related correspondence adequately addresses our question as to why...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but the two items are tied in with RTÉ. RTÉ has committed to back pay of up to only four years and nothing at all in respect of holiday pay or pension contributions. I do not see how it could get away with that. I know the Chairman has referred to the other correspondence, but could we write to both the Department of Social Protection and RTÉ to ask them both whether...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: Okay

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: This correspondence has raised an issue of significant concern in that the response of the Department seems to substantiate in particular the idea that high level civil servants would not have to declare gifts of as much as €2,500 in relation to travel, accommodation and meals. I note the Department had made specific reference to legislation by Deputies O'Rourke and Cullinane that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: I will not go through it all again. I propose that the committee write to both RTÉ and the Department of Social Protection to ask has RTÉ appealed every case that went against it or is it only a handful of cases where there are technical issues or whatever. It would be interesting to know from both because the Department's response might be related to the fact that RTÉ is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: This is another one that you pull the hair out of your head with. First, I find the position of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB, on this matter utterly lacking in substance of explanation. They told us in December that they would be ready to start installing the CCTVs in January, the beginning of the new season, and that was New Year's Day. It was stated that it would take six...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: It has been saying that-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: It was to be started in January and completed in a matter of weeks.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: The board told us that in December.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: I would prefer sooner, but I do not there is any point-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: -----in looking for it sooner. We would imagine that for something that would protect the integrity of the sport there would be a certain amount of expediency, but this has clearly not happened to date.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: What does the Taoiseach plan to do to deal with the lack of sufficient funding to deal with the backlog in housing adaptation grants every year? It is not just since Covid. It has been happening for years. There has been carryover year on year. In County Louth alone, 711 outstanding applications have been waiting for years to be dealt with, including elderly people. It is so bad that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: There are backlogs in every local authority. What plans does the Taoiseach have to increase the funding?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)

Imelda Munster: Can the Taoiseach tell me what plans he has to deal with those backlogs in order that people can rightly live independently without having to wait years?