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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022)

Verona Murphy: Teachers make the judgment but do not receive assistance.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Insurance Coverage (7 Jul 2022)

Verona Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that thatch property owners are facing in regards insuring their properties; and if his Department will take steps to provide support to ensure Irish heritage properties and homes can be insured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36818/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Verona Murphy: Farmers are being told that crazy targets of 22% to 30% are to be set for a reduction in agricultural emissions. Targets, if set at these levels, will decimate farmers, particularly those at the lower income end. KPMG stated that 56,000 jobs will be lost if these targets are set and imposed. Those are rural Ireland jobs. At a time when we face the worst cost-of-living crisis in living...

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.