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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but it was scaled up in about 2015 or 2016. I cannot remember exactly when that happened.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: People will have paid this levy, gone through the university and possibly even ended up doing a PhD, never mind being undergraduates. There must be some certainty about how this money will be spent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I originally raised this issue when the show was being advertised and I do not think that it had commenced so it was not in the time when there were difficulties with illness or things like that. RTÉ repeatedly told us in its letter how cash strapped it was and said, "We must try new things, to grow and sustain all we are obliged to do." I have no problem with innovation and trying new...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: On point 4, do we have anything to gauge these rates of LADs?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. I presume that this relates to the contractual obligation on the other side, which is an issue that I have raised on several occasions. I recall that we have been told that this will not adjudicated on until the whole thing is completed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It is not going to be done on an incremental basis.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I am just wondering. We are being told that this is going to be one of the projects and that it will be closely looked at for learning lessons from other similar projects. Some will be lessons about how not to go about a tendering process. Largely it will be about that, but it would be quite useful to know if there are similar projects in other jurisdictions so we could see how that kind...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Are they likely to run out of money this year?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I may well have asked this before, but how is that handled? Is there a Supplementary Estimate if they were to run out of money in July, for example? I am just picking that month out of thin air.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: This probably does not take-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: That €1.2 billion that they are up to at this stage does not take account of some of the additional claims.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reform the national car test; his plans to move away from a first date on which a vehicle is registered in the context of due test dates; and if he has engaged with insurance providers in the context of providing cover in the absence of a valid NCT certificate for the vehicle. [3885/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue a brief formulation report in respect of a school project in Maynooth; and the reason for the delay in issuing same (details supplied). [3758/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Inquiries (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in respect of the work of a person (details supplied) in respect of historical matters relating to St. John's ambulance. [3836/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Inquiries (26 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and or Tusla has received any interim or final reports in respect of the St. John Ambulance inquiry undertaken by a person (details supplied). [3890/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The Taoiseach and his predecessor, Deputy Micheál Martin, repeatedly told this House that housing was the biggest single social issue facing the Government. In his first interview after he assumed the office of Taoiseach, he said we needed to turn the corner on housing with a Covid-style response. He then clarified that what he meant by that was to adopt a can-do attitude. His can-do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: We have repeatedly said there is an over-reliance on the private sector and there has to be a scaling-up of the public sector. A briefing note prepared for the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, in December stated that the reliance on the private sector delivery is a vulnerability for 2023. When it comes to social homes, 2,706 new-build social homes were delivered at the end of September. More than...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform and or upgrade enforcement sanctions and actions that SIPO may take in respect of non-disclosure and or non-compliance of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995. [3677/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Housing Provision (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the first tranche of rapid-delivery homes will be delivered; the total estimated cost per rapid delivery home, including the cost of connecting them to services such as water and electricity; if he will provide a schedule of meetings that the OPW has had with an organisation (details supplied); if he will include the...