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Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I want to add my voice to that. I raised the issue of the legislation being rushed in the context of the Second Stage debate, and the Minister of State refuted that and said there had been ongoing consultation over the past year with all sorts of stakeholders. We are not stakeholders; we are legislators. That is the point. Consultation is absolutely valid with other groups but this is not...

Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I share many of Deputy O'Reilly's concerns. I am not a member of that particular committee and have not had the benefit of the debate. We all know why the Bill has ended up before the House, and that is because of the Supreme Court judgement. Amendment No. 1 may be covered in the legislation but the second on redacting names would give a degree of comfort. It seems very reasonable to me....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Property Tax (7 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the equalisation fund will be applied; if there are plans to change the baselines; if so, the criteria; the way the self-fund element will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36601/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The key issue here is that we had all read the same information the same way. The correspondence is at odds with our interpretation. This is a big industry and we all appreciate the importance of making sure the industry is not damaged. That is what necessitates CCTV. I am pleased that the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine is dealing with the matter. The important thing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is a question of keeping this very much on the agenda. It is regrettable we do not have an update. I think the previous update was that there was to be a meeting but they had to do it in person rather than a virtual meeting. We must keep this on the agenda. We are unlikely to get any update before the recess so this is something we need to flag for when we come back in September.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: No, I will leave it. I just cannot find my notes on this one.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: This is not the first time an issue with a capital of culture will have arisen. Wider lessons, in addition to those we are discussing, need to be learned from this and they are at a departmental, rather than individual council, level. That is something that, perhaps, we need to write to the Department about to determine how the capital of culture project is handled. It can be incredibly...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I propose we have a review, not just of the Galway city of culture but of where there have been problems with previous endeavours and where they are being repeated. It is a question of how we avoid that being repeated into the future. It is not just a one-off.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I want to raise several issues. Obviously, I would have been involved in the very detailed hearings in regard to Templemore going back to 2017, and I think the Committee of Public Accounts did a lot of very good work on that. Once an area ends up being the responsibility of a criminal investigation, obviously the role of the Committee of Public Accounts ends until that is concluded. We all...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Sorry, I was not finished.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I completely accept this is very detailed correspondence but the Committee of Public Accounts is not a disinterested party. A very sizeable amount of work was put into this. There are two particular aspects to this. One relates to European funding and the other relates to the public interest. We are not a disinterested party. I accept that people need time to read this but I would be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There may be some value in properly interrogating the cost rental model from a value for money perspective. The €1,200 per month rent for the cost rental homes is on the last page of that information, which I believe is the Enniskerry Road project. One of the things I am not at all clear about is whether the new system is going to have some profit element to it. I do not believe the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am trying to imagine a situation where somebody is a tenant. I completely acknowledge that €1,200 per month is very significantly less than €2,000 per month, but my understanding of cost rental is it would be a mix of people, including individuals on the housing lists. If it is going to include both, it would require quite a bit of subsidy from the public side, probably...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I will add to that, Chairman. I would be agreeable to that suggestion. This was quite controversial at the time. There was only one bid at the end and there were question marks, first of all, about who would own the asset at the end. The second issue was the ability of the entity actually to deliver because its experience had been more on the financial side than delivery on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is useful correspondence. It is comprehensive and contains some good information, including on the issue of test centres and the strategy in that regard. I have picked out two matters in particular, the first of which is the DART interconnector. In 2015 or thereabouts, it was brought to railway order level, which meant that all of the detailed work had been done. A significant amount...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: May I make a point before we move on, Chairman?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The issue about civil legal aid relates to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC. There is a difficulty in that the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC, have responsibility only for providing free legal aid in family law cases. There is no provision for legal aid in the case of people taking cases to bodies like the WRC. Last year, there was a significant increase in the number of people who...