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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Properties (8 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 1318. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and all bodies under her Department's aegis have reviewed their estates portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied buildings that may be suitable for use in the context of meeting the accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. [54223/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Properties (8 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 1319. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number and type of unused and-or unoccupied buildings in her Department's estates portfolio and all bodies under her Department's aegis. [54241/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 1331. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of officials in her Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the past ten years to date; the grade of each official; and the cost for each attendee, in tabular form. [55488/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I just want to follow on with questions on Ukrainian refugees. Did Mr. McCarthy say 135 people are in the unit, including people who have been seconded? None of us knew how long this war was going to last when it started last February. It was projected that there could be 200,000 Ukrainian refugees. What staffing complement was planned for the unit when the Department was set up as the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It was put by the Tánaiste.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: What did the Department estimate was required? I have very limited time.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. McCarthy have an estimate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Just give me some estimate. I have very limited time. I really do not need a-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have asked a very specific question. Is there a response relating to what the Department projected was required? We know it has 135 staff. What did it project was going to be required?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have ten minutes and that very short question I asked Mr. McCarthy has taken a third of that time without getting a reply. Essentially, the Red Cross was relied on very heavily. In fact, there has been quite a lot of criticism about people not being followed up. That was to be where quite a sizable amount of accommodation would be provided and, even now, we are hearing from people. On...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Can the Department give us a note on that please?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want to pursue this any longer because it will take up all my time. Does the Department require the people who are offering accommodation to be tax compliant?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Were there any circumstances where that was not the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I might talk to Mr. McCarthy about that separately.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will move on to another topic, that of childcare and, in particular, the sustainability fund. Smaller providers, in particular, are people who are only involved in the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme. We hear that quite a lot of providers are teetering on the edge, especially the smaller providers who are uniquely involved in ECCE. On the Department's case management and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. McCarthy accept that there is a real issue here in relation to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Why is it that people contact us every week saying they are on the edge and are likely to have to close down? It is a very important and vital service.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will leave this issue because I will take it up by way of parliamentary questions. It is certainly nothing like what all of us are hearing from smaller providers. We do not want to end up with providers pulling out where there is a necessary service. Last week, Mr. David Moloney, the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, informed us that it offered Tusla...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I appreciate that. How many section 38 and sections 39 organisations does Tusla interact with?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Right. Okay. I thank Mr. Gloster.