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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: How many of those have expertise in mediated settlements? Are people dedicated to that outcome or is it done right across each claim?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is interesting that the pandemic changed the dynamic. We have had engagement at previous meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts about the value of mediated settlements. It is more cost-efficient and it is also the least damaging way to deal with claims from the point of view of protracted litigation and so on, and also from the point of view of the kind of engagement that should...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: What is stopping that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: What is stopping the pre-action protocol?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Breen and I may have met at a meeting of this committee in May 2018 because that meeting prompted me to ask a parliamentary question about contingent liabilities. The answer stated: The HSE has not recognised any contingent liabilities in the last ten years. This is mainly due to the fact that the nature of such liabilities for the HSE mainly arise as a result of current ongoing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The NTMA takes on cases for the HSE. The HSE does not do it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General have any comment on that? It would be useful.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have several questions, so I ask that our guests provide very quick responses. The best claim is one that can be avoided. I strongly endorse the comments of Deputy Carroll MacNeill in respect of addressing this issue in private session. We really need to get to a point at which damage can be limited. We have done that, for example, in respect of the State Claims Agency, in the context...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Is there is a competitive tendering process where that kind of thing arises?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. On the issue of Irish Water, there has been a change relating to the €240 million in commercial borrowings. There was a replacement of Irish Water's commercial borrowings. What are the terms of the cost of those borrowings?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Irish Water has the potential to borrow more than it is currently borrowing. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There is no impediment to Irish Water taking on projects. There is sufficient funding available.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: As regards the New Economic and Recovery Authority, NewERA projects, I ask the witnesses to provide more detail on the special dividends, the sources of the dividends and the reason for the reduction. There was a reduction last year, which may have been due to Covid. I ask them to expand on that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: What about the special dividends?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Are the special dividends divided up in terms of the different entities that were involved?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That is grand. I thank Mr. O'Kelly.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention or that of his officials has been drawn to a change of ownership of a hotel (details supplied) in County Kildare; the statutory obligations of the receiving party in respect of staff that will transition to a new employer under a transfer of undertaking; the degree to which employer representatives are to be kept...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the lifting of restrictions in October 2021 will also remove the restriction on sanitary and toilet facilities at driver test centres to allow access to instructors, students and those accompanying learner drivers to lessons and tests to use these facilities. [48892/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a school (details supplied) will be provided with a fully complete campus of its own with all the required laboratories and classrooms; if her attention has been drawn to the current shortcomings in the provision of facilities at this school; and if she will commit to improving and upgrading the existing school. [48961/21]