Results 3,601-3,620 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. Access relates to that. It does not only apply in my area. For example, people could be queuing. They might have to make an appointment three weeks in advance. In other parts of the country, there are three different choices of swimming pool within 5 km.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: No. There should be an objective resource allocation based on criteria. It is useful that the Department is now mapping sporting facilities. That is useful, but the overlay on that map is the point. Population has to matter. There are whole new areas in, for example, Fingal. Area after area has just houses. We are only storing up trouble if we do not balance housing development with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The two in Kildare are the same ones that were there 40 years ago although they have been upgraded and rebuilt. There were only two pools in Kildare 40 years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: In fact, can we leave that item to next week or the next time we are dealing with correspondence? I have not brought it with me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I have not brought the correspondence with me. I am okay for it to be noted and published.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: There will be another opportunity to come back on this point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It states, in respect of investigation 3: During the investigation, the Investigator was made aware that related matters were under investigation in IFI. The Investigator is currently liaising with IFI to determine the nature and extent of the IFI investigation with a view to identifying appropriate next steps... I ask that we go back to them and say we want an update on the next steps...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I thought I had flagged that item.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I thought I had flagged that item.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Point 7 refers to Aasleagh Lodge. It refers to information regarding occasions on which the CEO stayed at the facility, including the duration he spent there. It would be useful for us to see what the regular costs were in the week before and the week after to allow us to make a comparison.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The reply goes into some detail. I was a member of the Committee of Public Accounts when it had a lot of debate about Templemore. The correspondence states that the matter was originally referred to GSOC by the then Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, in June 2017. That is a six-year time lag. It is incredibly frustrating that it has taken so long for GSOC to conclude the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I do not know. I think it would be very useful to find out why did this did take the length of time it did. I know we have been told in the letter that five Garda officers with experience in the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the National Economic Crime Bureau were involved in this. They may have been involved in it but how much of their time went into it? As provided for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: We should also ask what length of time these-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: This would not be the only thing with GSOC and I would like to know how it works. I remember a very long letter from Mary Ellen Ring that spoke about resources not being adequate. We cannot have these organisations there in theory; they must be there in practice. A period of six years tells us something about the practice. I also have concerns about what we are being told in that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Yes but if you read the next line, which states that as provided for under the special assistance provisions of section 74 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, these officers were removed from the direction and control of Garda leadership, seconded to GSOC and placed under the direct authority of the GSOC senior investigator on this case. Was this for six years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Was it for a portion of their time? Are there Chinese walls? It does not make any sense.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It is the same thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: No. I am happy enough for that to be read into the record and to right it with regard to balance. I am not at all surprised that the Comptroller and Auditor General is doing a special report into this. There were two or three things around that time. There was the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report on the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, the IFI and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Is it likely to be the far end of this year or into next year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.