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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is crawling this way - on the top of an iceberg.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: There is a disingenuous play on words at points Nos. 1 and 3. It is claimed that they did not have a relationship but they did. It states payment was provided for services. That is, to me, pretty much the same thing. On the third page of the reply, there is reference to the fact that the high-level purpose of the exercise is to explore options for a platform that would reduce the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I flagged that item in error. I am happy for it to be noted and published.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to refer to appendix 3, which is the estimate of the total cost of remediation for landfill sites where remediation works are still required. Any of us who were on local authorities know this is a residual issue. The landfill site in Kildare was big and growing to become a mountain before it went on fire. It then cost a fortune to carry out remediation works. These situations can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is worth saying-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Sure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: That Department is pretty good at coming back with-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: -----more complete replies after we have had an engagement with it. It is good to see that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I remember saying that very thing at the time, that that was exactly what would happen and that if the function of the planning appeals board were to be changed, people would go elsewhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, and now it has been dispensed with, but the interesting thing is that an awful lot of those planning applications have not been proceeded with, so-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Sorry, but I really do not think you can label an entire profession like that. I think there is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: There are very good examples of good decisions being made. We have completely bypassed, for example, local area plans, whereby the likes of An Bord Pleanála only had to have regard to them without it being in compliance with the plans that the public went through and that were properly considered. Then that was breached. That was an entirely political decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Can we come back in on a couple of questions on these items?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: A building standards regulator was needed 20 years ago or more and we are seeing historical cases coming through regarding mica and so on that need to be remediated from the Celtic tiger era in respect of apartment blocks, where there are significant problems in some locations. We saw in the concrete levy applied in this week's budget, that there is a price to pay for not having a regulator....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It does not give clarity. There is a notion that something will cost something, but problems are avoided problems by having the proper regulation to begin with. Australia completely re-regulated its construction sector. People do not get a licence to build if they have not been in compliance and, therefore, there is a penalty for not doing it and problems have been avoided in the future....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is worth asking if the RTB has asked the Data Protection Commissioner about an impact assessment on any other database. Is the RTB audited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We can consider it at the time but it the sectoral committee may usefully get a copy of this, if the Deputy would consider doing that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise something that will be on next week's agenda. Maynooth University in my constituency levied students to construct some student buildings. A levy of €150 is a large imposition when someone is already paying a registration fee of €3,000. Yesterday, the university decided that it would have to cease building because it did not comply with the public spending...