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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Catherine Murphy: I will also ask about night-vision goggles. Why was that not part of the requirement? Why was it separate? If that is going to go out to tender and a different company is awarded that tender, the apparatus will have to be stripped out and refitted into the company that is awarded the tender, assuming there is competition in the market. Was that thought about in advance of that contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Catherine Murphy: Please do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Catherine Murphy: The air accident investigation unit's report did not set out to apportion liability and rightly so, given it was about the prevention of accidents. Are there insurance implications for the awarding of the SAR contract? Has that been considered? In the context of an outsourced service, where does liability lie and has the Department taken advice on that? The Department has responsibility...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Catherine Murphy: Is there any contingent liability in the Department in respect of this outsourced service?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard (11 Nov 2021) Catherine Murphy: Is the liability exclusively the contractor's as opposed to the State's? There are other elements such as the Irish Aviation Authority and the Department in terms of regulation. Is there an expectation, or has advice been sought, in regard to insurance liability in the context, for example, of the terribly tragic accident and the loss of lives in the helicopter accident off Blacksod Bay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I merely wanted to suggest that we send this on to the relevant sectoral committee, namely, the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action, which may find it useful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I am looking for a number of things. We need to look for more up-to-date information, up to the end of 2021, in regard to inflation and projected inflation. We know that 4% is the threshold and there is a problem once it goes beyond that. Has forecasting been undertaken in the context of further rises in inflation and are there projections for 2022? One of the reasons this has overrun in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: The last time we had correspondence we were told not even to discuss it and not to discuss timelines or to speculate on it. We were pretty much told that we were not going to get it. This morning, we had a discussion with the Department of Transport. It has big projects on the way. The very least we would want to do is learn some lessons from the mistakes of the past. The Chair has made...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: I think we were told on the previous occasion that the expectation was 2024 and that it was significantly behind.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: The thing is it can only go as fast as the number of people on site working on the project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: At some point we should get the price of all the black ink the State owns because we get a lot of reports that are obliterated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: On the same point, the final paragraph on the front page of the correspondence states that in July this year there was agreement that the Department would manage overall funding within the Vote in order that GSOC could incur additional expenditure in the region of €300,000 in 2021. It states this additional funding would enable GSOC to address the immediate needs identified in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: That is very useful correspondence. I tend to look for the small print and I did that for the table on the second page, which includes active claims and the general indemnity scheme. At the very bottom, under the table, it says that the Irish Prison Service figures include 1,852 lack of in-cell sanitation mass claims. If that is removed from the estimated outstanding liability, what would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: It may not just be members of the Garda, it may also be members of the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: If that is the case, one would need to gather the information from the individual Votes and combine it with those figures to get the complete picture.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: This is an issue that the previous Committee of Public Accounts dealt with on several occasions. The State Claims Agency appeared before us recently. The main area is the one that Deputy Carthy alluded to, namely, the HSE. Most of the very expensive claims relate to accidents at birth. We see settlements weekly. No amount would ever be compensation for the person who might have been and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: Regarding the improvement under the open disclosure process during Covid, and in light of the change that happened very much on the Law Library's end, it might be worth asking the State Claims Agency what engagement it is having with the legal profession to drive home the importance of taking the open disclosure route. There was a major difference. The rate jumped to 30% plus from 23%. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: Every one of us wants the State to end up with the maximum return. The criticism of some of the early sales in regard to NAMA was that many of us felt it was a fire sale in that properties were sold when the market as at rock bottom as opposed to when we had a rising market. In being critical of that, we equally need to argue that we need to get the maximum here. It is a balancing act in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: This, too, is useful correspondence, but we also need to know from the Department the amount that has been spent on the DART tunnel aspect of the project, which up to 2018, was in the region of €50 million, and given that that project has been postponed until 2042, if it is anticipated that at that stage any of the information arising from that spend of €50 million, will be reused.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Exemptions (11 Nov 2021)
Catherine Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has consulted with the Minister for Finance in respect of seeking to have included among VAT exempt services that the driver education sector be included (details supplied); and if not, his plans to engage the Minister for Finance on this issue. [55405/21]