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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Yes. Ultimately, however, when they are decided, they are decided on the basis of the law. Judicial review is exactly that, the legal process. When they are decided in favour of the complainant, it means that somebody has broken the law. That is the issue for me. It is continual professional practice. I will qualify my comments by saying that that is my experience at the level of my county.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Yes. I do not know whether the rest of the committee has had time to look at and read this or if they have not and want to deal with it in a few minutes. It is about e-gaming and online gaming. There is quite a lot of correspondence in it. It is based on responses I have received to parliamentary questions. Well in excess of €50 million has been spent on e-gaming most years for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Turbary Rights (29 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the channels through which persons with turbary rights can continue to sell turf beyond the end of October 2022; the financial supports that will be made available to self-employed persons whose livelihood is wholly dependent on turf sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47623/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is living alone and who is renting a room with a tenancy agreement in an owner-occupied property will be affected in relation to their additional benefits such as the living alone allowance and fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47624/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: As all leaders' speeches have now concluded, we will now suspend the sitting for one hour.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: I hope that when the hectic budget period is over, the Government will use all its diplomatic power to begin lobbying the International Olympic Committee to have kite-flying included as an Olympic sport. On the basis of what we have seen and heard from the Government in recent weeks via the media, we would be in with a great shout of winning a few gold medals. The whole budget has been in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will be recognising Covid-19 as an occupational disease in health and social care and in domiciliary assistance as agreed and recommended by the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work in May 2022; if his Department recognises that this as an important step to implementing the EU Strategic Framework on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: 427. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will be recognising the recommendation of the European Commission and the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease for health care workers; if his Department will move to adapt legislation according to the updated Commission recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: I will pick it up there. Good morning to everybody. I congratulate Ms Eade. I cannot recall her being before the committee since her appointment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Kavanagh would have been with us. I will go back to the matter Deputy Carthy raised. If I am correct, Mr. Blake was saying that the vast amount of public money the Department signed off on as an investment has gone wrong. Where is the accountability. Who is taking responsibility? Who decides that this was a good investment and when it goes wrong, who takes responsibility?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: On that point, has a review been done of how investments are made in a structure, as Deputy Carthy pointed out, where there is no accountability?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Would it be a good idea to have one?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Would it be a good idea for the former CEO of HRI to become the new chair of the Curragh Racecourse? Is that not something that concerns Mr. Blake?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: I understand and accept that but would it be cause for concern for the future of investments such as this? Does it not present some form of conflict?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: That is grand. Does Mr. Blake have a concern about the money that is left to be drawn down? Is it in the region of €9 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Does the Department have oversight of that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: Is there? Who has that concern or is it only one for the Committee of Public Accounts? Whose concern is it? It seems like a fierce sloppy transaction of public money to me.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Verona Murphy: There does not appear to be any oversight following the Department's sanction. Would that be a fair statement?