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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional accommodation capacity currently undergoing construction in each of the prisons in Ireland; when each of these construction projects will be completed; and the additional accommodation capacity that will be provided upon completion. [50082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost to increase the number of State residential care units for children in care by 33%. [50079/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite beds available for people with a disability in CHO7 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [50080/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see each of the consultant paediatric neurologists at CHI, Temple Street. [50074/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE HSE staff, by grade, working in the HSE national medical card unit. [50075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2024 to provide an additional 20,000 intensive homecare packages. [50076/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (14 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a petition (details supplied) in respect of funding; his plans to provide assistance to the named group; and if he can outline the rationale for not providing funding. [49783/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I will try to go through things quite quickly because I have even less time than Deputy Kelly. As he said, we get good intel from people who have got retrofits or have bought electric vehicles, EVs, on what does and does not work. One of the things that I heard from a constituent surprised me. Obviously, there is a great reliance on home charging points for EVs. Smartzone is in...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I am talking about bundling the purchase of an EV and the grant for the home charger. I presume the two-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The point I really want to get it is that if we are going to build confidence and people are going to buy EVs, they have to be sure that the charging point they have installed in their home is not going to be switched off. I am quite astonished by that. People are being sent back to the company who installed it that is now in receivership. I am drawing attention to this because it is a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The same issue arises with windows, whereby we are seeing deep retrofits under the scheme where people are at risk of poverty. People are doing very good work but being told the most that could be installed as replacements are single-glazed windows. It just does not make sense. I may well pass a couple of these cases on as samples of what is happening rather than try to resolve a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: On the inspections of work done, the rate is one in five or two in five, depending on the scheme. However, defects are being found. Are the same defects being found in different locations? By virtue of the fact that not every single job is being inspected, which would be a very big ask, how is the authority sure defects are not pretty much missed in the jobs that are not inspected?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I just need a succinct reply.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: My question was on whether defects are replicated.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Where there is a repetition of defects, do the contractors go back to the houses involved without the authority having to inspect?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to local authority houses, are some local authorities better than others? My local authority raised with me the fact that there is a gap between the amount allocated and the amount it costs to retrofit. Is that gap widening with inflation?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The thing about it is that the local authority has to make up the difference, and it does not have a fund to make up that difference. It may well be the reason for underfunding and underperforming. That would be the key thing. The one thing the Committee of Public Accounts and I hate to see is allocated money that is not spent. In some respects, it is nearly as bad as misspent money,...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: We will be paying particular attention to this next year. Ms Buckley is telling me that under-expenditure will not happen. Value for money is another of our core requirements. With regard to retrofitting homes, we expected economies of scale whereby multiple units in one housing estate would be together. I am not seeing that. Is it happening? The witnesses may well have an example or...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I want to hear about the success, but we are very short on time. What were the major impediments in getting the other homeowners on board? I presume cost was key.