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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...public spending code, I am just trying to see whether there are blockages to successful delivery. There is a practical example in my constituency. The OPW negotiated a deal for the purchase of land at Castletown House in 2021. It told us that the cost would be somewhere in the region of €5 million. Essentially, there was either a blockage in the Department of Public Expenditure,...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I am just using it as an example. I have no doubt that there is a need for a rigorous assessment; however, by virtue of the fact that the land was not purchased by the OPW, it will now cost a lot more, even in terms of access. I am just using this as an example. Are there blockages that cause a problem in terms of value for money?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...access from the M4. The Taoiseach's response to me was: I am aware of the situation and I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, about it. Conversations ongoing with the landowner. We are keen to resolve that if we can, but it is a negotiation. Yesterday, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, said on KFM radio that negotiations were under way but could not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...code is quite important for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. In fact, we are engrossed in something in my constituency involving the purchase of land around Castletown House. The public spending code comes into that and, obviously, it is there for very good reasons. Will that then span the whole lot if we are going to be dealing with...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Compulsory Purchase Orders (12 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of lands and buildings his Department and bodies under his aegis acquired by using a compulsory purchase order in the past 20 years to date; and the amount expended on same. [44549/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Compulsory Purchase Orders (12 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of lands and buildings his Department and bodies under his aegis acquired by using a compulsory purchase order in the past 20 years to date; and the amount expended on same. [44551/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Compulsory Purchase Orders (12 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 20 September 2023, if he will provide an update in respect of the OPWs attempt to make use of the CPO process to acquire lands in the common good. [44541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Compulsory Purchase Orders (12 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of lands and buildings his Department and bodies under his aegis acquired by using a compulsory purchase order in the past 5 years to date; and the amount expended on same. [44550/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compulsory Purchase Orders (12 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of lands and buildings his Department and bodies under his aegis acquired by using a compulsory purchase order in the past 20 years to date; and the amount expended on same. [44548/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Compulsory Purchase Orders (10 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW retains an ability to initiate a compulsory purchase lands and buildings; and if not, if he will point to the amending legislation. [43632/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding land ownership and access to Castletown House; if his Department have at any point in the past made efforts to secure lands around Castletown House; if he and or his officials have assisted the OPW in attempts to secure the lands by purchase and or lease; and if he will involve...

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. McDonagh tell me about the 3.2 ha of land? What was the zoning on it?

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: That is incredible. I have seen a scenario in my constituency with a piece of land that was in NAMA for approximately ten years. It was zoned for housing and three schools. Mr. McDonagh knows where I am speaking about. Now it appears that planning permission has been secured for the housing element but this has to be delivered before we get the schools.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The land is not zoned.

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: When the land was bought it had hope value rather than-----

Public Accounts Committee: NAMA Financial Statements 2022 and Special Report 116 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The value of that land when it was not zoned was substantially less than its value since it has been zoned.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (26 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 209. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify whether the OPW has entered into a mediation process with landowners at Castletown House and boundary lands. [41362/23]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: We can come up with all sorts of reasons why house prices are so high in this country but I do not see any real attempt to drive them down. This is an island off the west coast of Europe and there is a need to bring in materials and all the rest so, in terms of a comparison, I will look at average house prices on the island. In Dublin, the average house price is €436,000....

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.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (21 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department obstructed the OPW from purchasing lands at Castletown House in 2021; if so, if he will outline the rationale for same; if the OPW presented a business case to his Department in respect of its ambition and/or intention to purchase the lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40873/23]