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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021) Catherine Murphy: I thank the Deputy and Ms Licken. That contribution concludes our two-hour slot. I thank our witnesses for joining us today and the staff at the Department for the work involved in preparing for the meeting. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for attending and assisting the committee today. Is it agreed that we request the clerk to the committee to seek any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: What is the parent Department of the sundry money account?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: So it is resting in my account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: It is resting in my account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. I thank Mr. McCarthy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: Revenue works to the set of rules provided to it. Obviously, the Department of Social Protection is the one that, in my understanding, has pretty much determined the type of employment it has always designated as self-employment. In 1997 there would have been way fewer people in this particular sector and it may well be that we try to get some data from the Department of Enterprise, Trade...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I am intrigued by this response, which raises questions. When representatives of the shared services unit appeared before the committee, they made a point of saying it would not be appropriate for every part of the public service to have its payroll go through the shared services unit. The HSE and the Department of Education have large staff complements. The Department of Education has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: It is very useful and long correspondence, which arises from our meeting with the Department. I have a few additional questions that I would like to ask the Department. On page 3, in relation to the use of existing poles and overhead lines, the Department states: Existing overhead poles and lines will be used where possible to lay/hang the new fibre cables. It is forecast that only 12%...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: It will, therefore, be up to the provider-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: Or if it is built into the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I have a few other questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: The Chairman might let me back in; I have a few other questions from this correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to pick up on the point of certain legacy issues. I echo Deputy Carthy's concerns about the roll-out of this. We discussed this before the contract was awarded and had concerns about the ability of the particular entity to deliver the broadband plan in the intervention area. As there was only one bidder, it was not as if there was a choice. We understand that Covid has been an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: It would be useful for us to have a schedule because we cannot allow slippage on that. If Covid has taught us anything, it is how important broadband is and that it needs to be provided equally across the country. I want to raise other issues but they do not relate to broadband.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I have a few other issues. The first relates to the use of landfill in the disposal of waste. We were told there are three landfill sites in the country, one in Kildare, one in Meath and one in Wicklow. In addition, we have the incinerator. That is it. The principle is that waste is supposed to be dealt with as close as possible to where it is created. However, the east coast is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: There are two more issues. One relates to the sustainable energy programmes. It may be something the committee will consider at some point. I am not sure whether the Department's costings are right. I was on an annual call with a local authority last week. It made the point that the money that is provided to fully fund retrofitting of local authority houses is €10,000 short of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I understand that, but even where the grant aid is provided, there is an under-estimation of the actual cost of doing it. The example highlighted by the local authority is a case in point but other people are saying that as well. I have been contacted by people who have told me the amount of money they have to put to it is unattainable. We will end up not being able to deliver on a very...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: Having read the Analysys Mason report backwards and forwards, it does not jump out to me that it was purely technical.