Results 9,901-9,920 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am fine. I only wanted to comment on the matter of CCTV. I have spoken on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The previous Committee of Public Accounts did some work on this and there is some correspondence which we have agreed would be circulated because there is useful information in it. We have to insist on getting the update. They said some of the responses included overtime and shift work. That is not what we are trying to get at here. We are trying to get at the issue, which came up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We will not know if it is a full and final settlement to start with. The Revenue audit has the ability to look back and we know that is under way. The key issue is that 78 people were essentially offered contracts where there was concern that these were inappropriate temporary contracts. In RTÉ, there are people on genuine contracts on a temporary basis, but these were people who...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Some of the information is very useful, but it is very hard to piece it together. We have received a letter from the Department of Justice in regard to the legal costs and compensation paid in respect of legal claims managed by the Irish Prison Service. The Department is very definitely saying that the Irish Prison Service manages that area but, as we know, the State Claims Agency will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The second table is useful. The ratio between the compensation paid and the legal fees is important. If we are going to change things, for example, looking at how we reduce costs, sometimes it is about how we do things in terms of a very legalistic process. For example, where a prison officer is injured in work and is out for six months, there would be medical costs and compensation paid....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have full confidence that the members representing the Committee of Public Accounts on Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, will follow up on this thoroughly. It would be useful to have a note after each of those meetings so that we have a consistent record of who attended and the agenda pursued. It would be helpful for those of us who are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: No, it is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: At what point does the Comptroller and Auditor General get sight of, or sign off on, some of the accounts we discussed last year? We might be able to see some of what is happening when we can see those accounts. Obviously, the Joint Committee on Health is dealing with this issue as well. It is very much a current issue. I am asking about getting sight of firm numbers.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is fine with me if the matter is referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is welcome that representatives from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage are coming in but there is a wide remit in that Department, including local government and there is quite a lot that requires scrutiny. We are all finding the meeting unsatisfactory. One can do very little in five or even 15 minutes and this is a gigantic area. We have to accept, even before...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to information that sets out that the 1951 superannuation pension scheme for CIÉ workers is compliant with minimum funding standard rules; his plans to meet with CIÉ representatives to discuss issues surrounding the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27663/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the work carried out to date in respect of reducing speed limits within and surrounding residential housing estates (details supplied); the amount of funding in respect of 30km per hour speed limits his Department has provided since 2015 to date in 2021; and the breakdown of housing estates in County Kildare that have...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review further the impact that lower speed limits can have as part of a national roads policy in the context of carbon emissions and climate targets. [27772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the research used to support the increase in stamp duty to 10% in the context of bulk buying housing; the way the research was sourced and from whom; the parameters that were used; the other taxation measures that were considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28164/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 226. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the release of a grant to a sports club (details supplied) in County Kildare; if same will be communicated to the club; and if there are outstanding issues for the club to address and or resolve in respect of documentation. [27935/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 502. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 667 of 18 May 2021, if she will provide copies of all emails and hard correspondence received from an association (details supplied) seeking a statutory instrument to enable its annual conference to proceed. [28027/21]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Apologies have been received from Deputy Stanley. I welcome everybody to our online meeting. Due to the current situation regarding Covid-19, only the clerk, support staff and I are in the committee room. Members of the committee are attending remotely from within the precincts of Leinster House. This is due to the constitutional requirement that, to participate in public meetings,...

Public Accounts Committee: Housing Schemes Expenditure: Think-tank for Action on Social Change (20 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Today we engage with the Think-tank for Action on Social Change, TASC, to examine expenditure on schemes for the provision of housing, including the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and the housing assistance payment, HAP. This follows on from our examination of the accounts of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage last November. The Department funds these schemes and...

Public Accounts Committee: Housing Schemes Expenditure: Think-tank for Action on Social Change (20 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We can see the presentation. Before we begin, I remind Dr. Sweeney that our time is limited and I ask him to be as concise as possible. This briefing, however, will be very useful to the committee, so I ask him to present for approximately ten minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Housing Schemes Expenditure: Think-tank for Action on Social Change (20 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: We do not have a list with the sequence of Members who will be asking questions, so I ask them to indicate their desire to do so by using the raise hand function in the software. I now ask Dr. Sweeney to start his presentation.