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Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: Seanad Éireann has agreed to the amendment made by Dáil Éireann to the Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022, consequential upon its acceptance of amendment No. 48 made by Seanad Éireann to the Bill.

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts: Motion (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: As a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, I am pleased to have the opportunity to support and speak on this motion. I commend all those who worked on compiling the report, including the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the committee secretariat, my colleagues on the committee, the Chairman, Deputy Stanley, and the witnesses who appeared before us. The Committee of...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: A vote on the question has been called but will be deferred until our next voting block next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: That will probably be the first project that Deputy Carthy gets done when he is in government. We will not have to wait too long for it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: I concur with Deputy Catherine Murphy's comments. I would like a recommendation from the committee that all toll barriers be removed. It is counterproductive from the perspective of CO2 emissions. We could ask TII what the Environmental Protection Agency has said about Dublin Port tunnel in general about nitrogen oxide, NOx, emissions and CO2. We would find it is way in excess of what the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: I have been trying to get that done for about seven years.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: A litre of fuel each way in and out of that tunnel.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: It is incumbent on TII to come up with a solution.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: There are a number of issues.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: They could use number plate recognition as is the case with the M50. We no longer have a toll barrier on the M50. Most of Europe uses that system. We are saving Dublin.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: My understanding is that BAM is responsible for the operational side in which case it must cover any costs. Arson is not covered by insurance but to my knowledge, it would not be passed back.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: I do not know whether to interrupt now or at the end.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: On the meeting with An Bord Pleanála on 14 July, it is paramount we do not have a representative from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I would like to see the Secretary General, Mr. Doyle, back here. This is sufficiently serious and we have a lot of stuff to get through. The matter is high on our agenda. Particularly with the adverse media coverage, it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: No. I am proposing that there be someone from the Department, but at the level of Secretary General.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: I do not want to see any principal officer who does not have answers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: May I ask a question of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Do we have the option to invite the regulator or-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: We should do that now. The correlation between the legal fees being incurred under judicial review between the three bodies is such that it is something we need to flag and to investigate because the amount of public money that is just going into a black hole for no good reason is just - I cannot even put a word on it. It is atrocious.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: The Chair will remember my robust questioning the last time. I said we would be looking at €20 million very soon. We await the judicial review and the legal position. I asked the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage last week for its submission on anything to do with legal matters. It might take us longer than one session to correlate between these different parties...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: I do not agree.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Verona Murphy: That is a narrative that has been put out by the sitting Government that it would like to limit-----