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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I think the object for all of us should be to try to keep the cost of this hospital down. I know there are all sorts of speculation as to the cost it will reach and so on but, as I keep saying, a contract goes both ways. I asked very specifically what the triggers were whereby the State or the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board could counter-claim. I asked if there were other...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I propose that we look for the granular detail and the kind of stuff we could have engaged with them on. I am not sure if this completely covers it. If they were before the committee again, I would have a doubt. They said at the beginning they were generally satisfied, but I was not generally satisfied, because there was another trigger to which they did not draw our attention.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: That is exactly what I am looking for.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I presume the Department of Social Protection funds the Citizens Information Centres. It is not audited, it is secondary.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Some of the personnel may have changed. I see one item in which that would have happened. It is quite difficult because different members will have raised some of these issues.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: No, not that I can see.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: One of the Secretary Generals is due to appear before the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. That is fine. We should not be in a position where the secretariat have to follow up on correspondence. If this committee has written to all these bodies, some of which are Departments, we have a right to expect we will be responded to. This adds to the workload...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of local property tax collected to date in 2022; and the amount outstanding to be collected for 2022. [46461/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the full-time patient-facing officers of Dublin Fire Brigade and its staff of ambulance personnel have not received the pandemic bonus payment from Dublin City Council; and if he and or his officials have engaged with officials at Dublin City Council and or the HSE in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the full-time patient-facing officers of Dublin Fire Brigade and its staff of ambulance personnel have not received the pandemic bonus payment from Dublin City Council; and if he and or his officials have engaged with officials at Dublin City Council and or the HSE in respect of issuing the payment. [46441/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I deliberately focused on one issue the Minister could do something about now, namely, extending the powers of the Commission for Regulations of Utilities in regard to standing charges so that where gouging is happening, the CRU could set an upper threshold that reflects the actual cost of providing the infrastructure. It does not relate to the unit cost of energy. Why is it increasing to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: -----and how it has to be dealt with at European level. Please deal with this one issue. It would make an immediate difference and it could be done quickly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I spoke about standing charges.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: For months now, the Minister has been telling people to reduce their energy use. In fact, he previously told people to be clever with their energy use. He said that people should use their smarts to cut down on energy use and save money. People have been doing that. All over the country, people are desperately trying to dramatically reduce the energy they use. They are doing so because...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want to hear him devote his response to the geopolitical problem. What is the Government going to do and when it is going to do it?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Semi-State Bodies (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the dividends paid to the Exchequer by each of the semi-State energy companies; their profits for each of the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46263/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to dissolve the marine casualty investigation board; the timeline for doing so; and the reasoning behind this decision. [46085/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the proposed new marine accident investigation unit will operate within his Department; the proposed involvement of his Department in the marine accident investigation unit; and the way in which the requirements under European Union law for an independent marine accident investigator will be met. [46086/22]