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Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Imelda Munster: The horrors Israel has been committing in Gaza since October are frankly indescribable. I think I speak for most people when I say we watch TV screens and we cannot believe what we are watching because of the utter barbarity of it and also the fact nobody is doing anything to stop it. The civilian population of Gaza have been subject to the most depraved, indiscriminate bombing campaign in...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Football Association of Ireland's Facility Investment Vision and Strategy, and Governance Issues: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Imelda Munster: When Mr. Barrett said “the executives”, was he saying that it was the finance officer or finance director at the time who first broached this matter with him?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Football Association of Ireland's Facility Investment Vision and Strategy, and Governance Issues: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Imelda Munster: I would have said it did not come back for obvious reasons. Sport Ireland previously mentioned that 10% of the MoU recommendations are outstanding. We had it the last time with the FAI, John Delaney and all of that fiasco. I am looking for the opinion of Sport Ireland. I am not overly confident, however, having listened to what has been said today and the type of flippant responses from...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: Okay. I want to touch on the Central Bank of Ireland and the instructions it gave to sell non-performing loans, if you like, to vulture funds. That was confirmed to us last April by Governor Makhlouf. I want to know Mr. Hogan's view on that. Was the Department informed at the time? If it had known, would it have stepped in and placed pressure on the banks not to do that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: The point is the Central Bank has very few regulations when it comes to the conduct of vulture funds, if you like. People are, therefore, at the mercy of those vulture funds. To the Central Bank and Department's thinking, does Mr. Carville not feel the Central Bank and the regulator should have a role to protect those mortgage holders?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: There are 4,500 offset mortgages in Ulster Bank that will be sold off by the bank. That is another tranche of mortgage holders who could well be at the mercy of vulture funds and all that involves.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: I would like to echo the sentiments expressed and the congratulations to the Comptroller and Auditor General and his office for the invaluable work the do. It is a significant help to the committee. At times, I do not know how we would carry out our own work without it. I want to touch on the NTF and that ridiculous surplus of €1.37 billion. How long has that surplus been building?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: At least that.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: I will not use the rest of my time. From the answers, I gather that not a whole lot has happened. There is a lot of talk, a report went to the Government and the Government has not acted on it. We will leave it there. The surplus is still there. Dr. O'Reardon said that the operation of EU fiscal rules has meant additional expenditure cannot be sourced from the NTF. Yesterday...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: I already asked that question and I did not see any evidence or hear about any big idea that has come to fruition. Meanwhile the surplus is building. I will touch briefly on precarious employment in the university sector. More than one third of staff are on temporary or casual contracts. Two thirds of the 6,000 workers are women. One of them visited my constituency clinic this month....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: I am talking about precarious employment within the university sector. We were given a commitment by Dr. O'Reardon's Department last year that it would conduct research. Has that research been done? Has it been completed? Has it been published? I want to know where it is at, particularly on this topic.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: Has the Music & Entertainment Association of Ireland raised with Coimisiún na Meán the fear that some stations are not even playing the minimum 20% and others that are playing the minimum 20% are playing it in the evenings or at night when the listenership is less?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: The witnesses should prioritise that. As this issue has been going on for years, if they want a listening ear, want it to be addressed and are not entirely satisfied with the response from Coimisiún na Meán which we received in September, they should request a meeting and flag it up. The representatives of the MEAI talked about a national plan involving themselves, IMRO and...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - 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
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: That is a little bit worrying to hear that Mr. Moloney is “happy to take a look at it”. Is he saying that he was not aware of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - 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
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: A final decision has not been made but there was a finding and the companies have been fined €200 million. Is Mr. Moloney concerned that such companies are applying for PPP contracts in this State and about the problems that would arise? Was there an investigation into contracts that these companies had applied for? At the time, it was said these companies had colluded and met on a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Doyle cannot definitively say - it would probably be foolish to at this stage - that the targets will be met.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: If the Department knows they will be delivered, and the figures are given quarterly, surely at the end of October with two months to go, the Department has a rough idea.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: Is the Department looking at possibly 4,000 being delivered in the next three months?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: I have to again raise the issue of the chaos caused by the Obelisk Bridge and the adverse affect it is having on traffic congestion in Drogheda. I have told the Taoiseach that I had liaised with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, Louth County Council, the Minister for Transport and the Department, and they all passed the parcel. When I raised this matter with the Taoiseach several weeks...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: I say with no exaggeration that Drogheda is literally at a standstill seven days a week.