Results 3,561-3,580 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: That is the one that jumped out, when Mr. McCarthy started talking about unauthorised bank accounts, termination of employment payments and going concern. It screams that this has not been functioning properly. This is obviously somewhere the Comptroller and Auditor General has a role in auditing. Surely, this would have been know about in the Department too. What is the notification...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. It would have been the Department of Education before the new Department was set up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It is only resting in their account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Will it be reported on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Is that fund time limited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General make a comparison with previous audits? We know that within the health service a 2022 audit may relate to things that happened in 2021, and Covid obviously played a significant part then. Is the non-compliance substantially different from the profile of previous non-compliance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Do we have detail on that as to where-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Maybe we should follow up with some detail. We are presuming the sample will give a fair reflection right across, but it may relate to the administration department as opposed to, let us say, the accident and emergency department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Can we follow up on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: To be fair, if somebody has a condition, you are not going to go through a process that will take three months. If somebody requires something-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I can see from the correspondence that Kildare had a new build target of 370 units and 372 units were delivered. The tabular statement does not tell the whole story. It uses the language of confusion. We often hear the Minister or Taoiseach stated the Government has delivered when, in fact, many of these new builds are turnkey. With a lot of these turnkey units, a planning application is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: When looking at this, we should not look exclusively at the direct builds. We have to look at them, but also at the acquisitions and how they are acquired, and the long leases, and break them down into segments to see the totality. It is also useful to look at the acquisition cost and the project longer-term costs. That comes into play with this. In regard to the long-term cost, leasing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: If we are going to do a piece of work on what we are building or delivering, let us look at what that means in compartmentalised pieces.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. We will see an understandable difference in different parts of the country because such matters as land prices can be different.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, there were some ten-year leases. Many of the more recent ones are longer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: We also want to know what the housing lists are in order to see the figures side by side.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I am sure it does.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, and in particular the one about the redundancies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Whoever it was, we need to have it for our hearing with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Some of the matters that the Cathaoirleach referred to jumped out at me, for example, plumbing services. The amount seems substantial for something that is of an emergency nature. We can differentiate between purchases required due to time sensitivities and patient-specific requirements for cardiology procedures. Those are completely understandable, given the nature of what is involved in...