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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will raise just a couple more issues. One relates to the Financial Services and the Pensions Ombudsman. I refer to the fact that discussions are ongoing between the office and the Department of Finance about funding of liabilities under the schemes. It may well be useful for us to have them in to discuss that to see where it is at because the issue of pensions keeps cropping up. At some...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Would it have required permission from the Department to make those investments?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It might be worth asking the Department if a business case was presented and, if so, if it would make it available to us before we meet it. It is quite urgent that it do that because if it deviates significantly, I think it is worth us looking at that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Let us make a start on the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is disappointing that no information is available on CHO 7. I would be surprised if it is the only CHO area on which information is missing. Information has not been provided for the Waterford-Wexford area either.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is a postcode lottery for people. The people who will miss out on services are families who cannot pay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I think it is important to say that even where they are available, they categorise what is required, if a child is actually seen. We are not talking about cosmetic treatment here. We are talking about children who are in pain and have long-term problems that will cause multiples of that if they are not dealt with. As Deputy Hourigan said, it is gets to the extreme stage. Therefore, it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will raise this when representatives from the Department attend the committee in the not too distant future. The information on the extensions is quite useful. They could be there for the entire duration of the build, which seems strange.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Extensions are permitted. There are the extensions to which the Chairman has referred, but there another extension is permitted. It is an issue that I can raise with the representatives of the Department when they attend the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have developed a Private Members' motion on this issue and am working on legislation regarding it at present. Can we clarify whether the Attorney General will define the economic identity of Irish Water when it is separated from Ervia? This is quite complicated. It is more complicated than I appreciated. When Irish Water was set up, it was intended it would have a very different...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: When Department of Finance officials are in, this matter may well be something we can deal with at that stage, but it will not be the only Department we have to consider in relation to this particular issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is there any update? Is the Comptroller and Auditor General aware of what is planned in respect of the auditing of this entity by his office? What will its input be into the changes in legislation that will be required?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have no doubt that it is complicated by virtue of the fact that there is a commercial side. There will probably be a need for a dual audit.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: That is definitely the case. This must be a real outlier in terms of the extent to which public funds are not before this committee.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will set out plans to support SMEs in the context of rising energy costs. [45400/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Commissions of Investigation (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to aspects of the Commission of Investigation into companies (details supplied) in the context that it is concern expressed regarding the definition of capital loss as used by the Special Liquidator; his views on whether the definition is inconsistent with the concept of prudence, a requirement of European Union company law...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount expended by a corporation (details supplied) on the use of private investigator companies historically; if he will provide a schedule of the PI companies that were engaged; the fees paid to each of them; and if they produced a report for him and or the management of the corporation. [45302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Protected Disclosures (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of protected disclosures that he has received from 2018 to date in 2022; the number that have been closed with actions to be implemented and or issues to address; the number that were dismissed and the number that remain open in tabular form; the protected disclosures that were referred to a third party for investigation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if this person is an employee of his Department, and if not, if he will outline the way in which they exited the service. [45341/22]

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I wish the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, well in his new and very important role. As we know, the IBRC had been created to wind down Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society, which had been nationalised and the citizens acquired a huge debt of approximately €35 billion. In 2012, the troika was still in town; the austerity programme was under way; the national...