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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There is other additional expenditure that the Department picks up. I got names of some firms in a reply to a parliamentary question. The same firms recur in 2018 and 2019, including Analysys Mason, Deloitte, KPMG, and Mason, Hayes & Curran. Why is the Department picking up those costs? Why are they not part of the national broadband plan? Will those costs recur?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I ask Mr. Griffin to provide the committee with numbers as to what the outlay is.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Great. On Analysys Mason, I remember when the report was produced in 2018, there was considerable criticism at the time about the lack of transparency in pricing and on competitive practices in respect of the metropolitan area network services, MANS, contract. I remember it coming from BT and probably others. Following the publication of that report, almost 12 months later an announcement...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that the response is very brief. I have a few other questions I wish to ask.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Finally, on the NBP, has a review been done of the tendering process? It went on from 2015 to 2019. We ended up with only one bidder. We do not need to go back over the points on which we had engagement previously. Has a review happened, and will that review be published?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Griffin will check that and come back. RTÉ was in the news earlier this week with regard to the top earners with substantial salaries. We have had RTÉ in highlighting that it is strapped for cash. It is a concern that there appears to be substantial money laid out for some of its employees, while I recognise that most of them are self-employed. Obviously, not all RTÉ...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That would be great. I thank Mr. Griffin.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Going back to the national broadband plan, the broadband cost reduction directive of 2014 means that assets, such as ducts and poles, are to be used to try to reduce the costs, and rightly so. Some of the companies were originally bidders and are not now. We heard recently that some of those assets are being leveraged. Is it the private national broadband company, the public purse or the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Griffin send us a note on television licence fee compliance?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Non-compliance with the passenger locator form tells us something about non-compliance. We are aware that the PCR test, while it is required and mandatory, is not sufficient on its own. A second test is required within a number of days. I am aware that people coming in from the United Kingdom and other countries, such as South Africa, are supposed to quarantine for 14 days. Is there an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The daily numbers for Covid might be lower than they were a week or two week ago but they are still extremely high, as is the alarming number of reported deaths. We are in the middle of a crisis with no end in sight. The UK variant, with its increased transmissibility, resulted in flights being suspended from late December in recognition of that increased risk from the variant. Between 11...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to issues with the new online CRO system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3315/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid out in damages in non-medical negligence cases by the State Claims Agency in 2020; the top five amounts paid out; and the nature of each case. [3164/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid out by the State Claims Agency in plaintiff legal costs and its own legal costs in non-medical negligence cases by the State in 2020. [3165/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance the top ten individual amounts repaid by companies that received payments under the Covid-19 temporary wage subsidy scheme; and the sector that each firm operates in tabular form. [3456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff at the Central Bank who received pay in excess of €400,000 in 2019 and 2020; the number who received pay between €300,000 and €400,000 in 2019 and 2020; the number who received pay between €300,000 and €200,000 in 2019 and 2020; the number who received pay between €200,000 and €150,000 in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out each tier of pay scale by amount and tier for all secretary general posts; and the reason tiers exist for the same top ranked position across Departments. [3091/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures expected of primary and post-primary schools to report attendance and levels of engagement with online learning in the context of level 5 Covid-19 restrictions and the fact that school-based activities are taking place remotely; the role of the Tusla education support service; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned development of a new post-primary school campus in Prosperous, County Kildare; and the timeline from design to completion dates. [3265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which the number of practising barristers and solicitors that make up the part-time membership and-or Chair of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal will be appointed; the number appointed as of 14 January 2021; the number of ordinary members currently forming part of the Criminal Injuries Compensation...