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Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for 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
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I am coming back in with one issue regarding projects that require business plans to be submitted. Are those business plans submitted to the witnesses’ Department in order to get funding? Does a business plan have to be sanctioned in advance in order for funding to be sanctioned?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for 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
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: What is the value?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for 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
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I thought that is what happened as well. During the week, I mentioned Monaghan hospital’s need for emergency services to the Taoiseach. He told me that you cannot just go and do that, that there is a route to doing that, which involves putting a business case or whatever else forward. It worried me and I thought of other major projects that are happening. The Minister of State,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for 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
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Is it the Taoiseach or the Minister of State, Deputy Harkin? Who is saying the right thing there? Is the Taoiseach saying the wrong thing that something could not be built without a business case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for 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
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: It is to ensure that all areas and counties are treated equally, and that there are business plans put in place for everybody.

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The Taoiseach correctly described the failure of the European Union to come to a unified position on Gaza as a huge strain on the bloc. He also said that if it fails to do so, Europe will have no credibility. European Union Commissioner, President Ursula von der Leyen, today lacks any credibility on human rights or international humanitarian law. It was Ursula von der Leyen who, at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I thank all the witnesses for coming in and for presenting their opinions to us. I congratulate Ms Ní Ghrálaigh on her appointment as an adjunct professor at the National University of Galway's Irish Centre for Human Rights. At a time when the very concepts of human rights and international law are under sustained attacks, I know all members will appreciate all the more the value...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Will Ms Ní Ghrálaigh give an example of any other situation where the Irish Government has introduced legislation that has been acknowledged to be only partly in line with its international obligations? Have there been any consequences where it has taken action?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Would there be any potential consequences for Ireland for breaching what has come out of the ICJ and the UN General Assembly resolution under our obligations under international humanitarian law? Are we in breach there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I return to Europe, which is breaching at the moment. Are there no consequences for Europe and the Commissioner at the moment? Laws are being breached there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I thank the witnesses again.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I welcome the students here tonight. We in Sinn Féin appreciate their efforts to go to college and better themselves. In a matter of weeks, students will be returning to their studies or setting off to college for the first time. What should be a time of excitement for so many will turn into a very stressful situation as they face the challenge of funding for so-called free...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (3 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projected annual cost for Ireland of participation in the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration for each of the next five years, broken down by current and capital expenditure, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36668/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving gardaí and those had retired or resigned within the previous five years who were convicted of a crime in each of the past ten years, by rank and by category of conviction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36669/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I welcome the Garda Commissioner and all the other witnesses. Gardaí play a vital role in all our communities, and I thank them for that. I have a few questions. I previously brought to the Garda Commissioner's attention the JPCs that were still not up and running around the country. They worked very well for councils and communities coming together in every area. What is happening...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Cathy Bennett: When are they happening?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The JPCs stopped a year ago and the other ones are not up and running yet. One was supposed to replace the other.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Cathy Bennett: It is important that communities, councillors and gardaí are on board together. It is a good communication system in each county, and I say "Well done" for all the work on the JPCs. In 2023, An Garda Síochána spent €2.9 million on a construction project for a new station to be built in Bailieborough. The expected spend for the lifetime was supposed to be...