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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: All right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: I assume we will have an update on that next year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Having regard to the clock, the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, appointed a gambling regulator in September 2022. Some €200,000 was allocated in the budget for 2021 that was never drawn down. Have any moneys been drawn down since?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: What happened to that money, the €200,000 that was allocated in 2021?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Do we know which?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: It was included in that. Okay. What has been drawn down?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: The CEO was only appointed in September. Was that €161,000 drawn down in the last quarter of 2022?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: I mean the interim CEO appointed when the office was set up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: I will quickly move onto Garda recruitment. I do not have much time left but I am very concerned. I receive an awful lot of emails from constituents about Garda transfers being delayed and about Garda recruitment in general. One particular individual tells me that, having waited for years to join An Garda Síochána, he has been rejected based on his body mass index, BMI, despite...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: It has nothing to do with the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: I find it extraordinary but we will have to take it up with somebody else. I take it the same pertains with regard to transfers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: That is fine. Could Ms McPhillips tell me who oversaw the firearms expert committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Yes but who oversaw it on behalf of the Department of Justice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: What role does the Department play with regard to the firearms expert committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: No. I am asking about the committee and what it is set up to do, which is to make recommendations, although I am happy to hear about the appointments if it is relevant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: These were advertisements for committee members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Was Ms McPhillips at all concerned to read in one of the media outlets that one member of the committee came out and said that it was basically a farce?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Surely, to be honest-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: It is a big Department but Ms McPhillips is the Secretary General and this is a fairly damning indictment of an expert committee on which the Department has a member serving.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Verona Murphy: Is there anybody here who is familiar with it and who could speak on Ms McPhillips's behalf?