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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. It started in 2018. We know there has been a pandemic, but it is probably all the more important now than in 2018 not only that it is a value-for-money audit but also that it compares quality of service and value for money. Reference has been made to the 2016 audit, which showed significant weaknesses, and that has been stated each year. What are the sanctions for non-compliance?...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Sorry, but I will stop Mr. Ryan there. I have a very short time. I know sanctions would not be the first thing the HSE would start out to do but they have to be available if there is non-compliance. I really want to get to that net point. Are there sanctions? What are they? Have they been applied?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but if there is an entity that is consistently non-compliant, will the HSE come back not just to me but to the committee with that information? It is very important that we see how exactly the HSE deals with non-compliance.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to get a list of those notices and to understand what issues they are addressing. On another issue, in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report - again, this relates to the 2016 audit - Enable Ireland is the organisation at hand and a breakdown is given of the amount paid right across the country. Kildare and west Wicklow, which would have a population of...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, this new operational model for An Garda Síochána is a very big restructuring and modernisation for the force. Modernisation is sorely needed, and an increased focus on integrated community policing is incredibly welcome. The removal of Garda districts under the divisional model is done with the understanding that it will allow for a more efficient distribution of human...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (22 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of family homeless hubs and the capacity to accommodate family sizes of two, three, four, five and above persons in each local authority area in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (22 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families that were accommodated in temporary hotel accommodation in each local authority area in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45457/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (22 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of transitional accommodation units utilised to accommodate homeless family sizes of two, three, four, five and above persons in each local authority area in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45458/21]

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome this debate. Simply put, we do not currently have an effective means of preventing, investigating and prosecuting corruption. There is no overarching or consolidated approach to combating corruption in the private sector or the public sector. A look at the State's anti-corruption website gives us a clear picture of the fragmented approach, with 16 bodies listed as responsible for...

EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Motion (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is Ní Mhurchú, probably. The deadline relating to this is this Friday, 24 September. We have been informed that there should not be vote in this House because of that deadline. I do not believe anyone will disagree with the passing of this motion. I do not anticipate that people will call for a vote. As a number of previous speakers indicated, however, this is not the way...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There are several issues I wish to raise.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I expected the same but we are socially distanced here anyway. The issue of deferred pension funding comes up repeatedly, and there are other pensions, such as those in the health services, that Mr. McCarthy stated are funded as they go. Are pensions for universities and colleges funded in advance? Are they fully funded? How does that work? Mr. McCarthy might give us a note on that. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There is a significant issue here in that most of this will be a liability into the future for anyone who is working at the moment. We know there is a pension time bomb - we are constantly told about it - and we do not have a pension reserve fund. This may well be an issue we need to have a better handle on. It might be something that would be worth, at some point, putting a little time...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise a few other issues. In all situations where the Comptroller and Auditor General refers to non-compliance with procurement, we should de facto write and find out what the issue is. We have been doing that and I believe that is good practice. I refer to the ICT breach in both the HSE and Tusla. Given the extent of what happened there, and we certainly do not want to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have a question on No. 4 on the correspondence list. Was an age-debtor analysis carried out for the on-lending liquidity partner? I am not sure whether the response is saying "Yes". I would like to know whether it has been carried out because there would be a potential significant liability if some of those debts went back over a few years.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am okay with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That is a valid point. We are not saying the universities should be obliged to outline where there is an engagement in every scenario but there are probably fewer examples of where courses are directly organised around a particular individual industry and it would be useful for us to know about those examples. It might be worth sending correspondence to the universities asking them if they...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I propose that we write to the universities and ask them if they will identify the courses they run that are directly related to an industry, as opposed to more general funding.