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Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Ms Downes stated that this service was primarily provided over the phone, yet there are fairly substantial costs relating to it. I know the organisation had to pay for office accommodation, which would have been secured by the Office of Public Works, OPW. However, the office accommodation cost €243,000 per annum plus €36,400 in service charges, which adds up to almost...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: There is no follow-on cost there.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: On the issue of the inadequate controls from 2014 onwards as identified by the Comptroller and Auditor General, that has been a feature right through. Why were better controls not put in place? I completely understand that the people involved are quite vulnerable. I would have expected Caranua to help them to get the quotes if they were note able to do so themselves, for example.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Travel and subsistence was €5,600 in 2019. That was up from €4,000 in 2018. What was that for?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: It was up in 2019.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to a question I asked earlier about the 6,181 survivors. Did they all get a payment?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that Caranua can only work with who applies but looking at the initial payments and with the benefit of hindsight, was an evaluation done on people who were in rented accommodation, for example, and who could not get housing supports? That is the dominant difficulty survivors had. They would have done less well in life and the Caranua services may well not have been as...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Will the €300,000 wind-down cost be fully used and what does that account for?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I remember 2017, although I think Caranua had a different CEO at the time. This matter came before the Committee of Public Accounts and there was a newspaper article at the time that reiterated the concerns some of us had. Survivors said that they were left for months without a response and were told they would get no support if they made contact again. Some of them were in tears and felt...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 92. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce an enterprise and trade support scheme similar to and-or the equivalent of the Covid-19 restrictions support scheme for businesses that are not subject to business rates and-or conduct trading activities from a business premises located in a region subject to restrictions in view of the fact that the Covid...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Will the Tánaiste consider the introduction of a trade support scheme equivalent to the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, for businesses that are not subject to commercial rates and do not operate from a business premises, in view of the fact that the pandemic unemployment payment and wage subsidy scheme are not especially appropriate to certain business models in the tourism and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: It is welcome that it is under consideration. Fáilte Ireland has a €10 million fund called the Ireland-based inbound agents business continuity scheme but it is complex. The information that is required is substantial and not accessible to many small businesses. The entertainment and tourism sector will be terribly important for our recovery. We need to make sure that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by his Department and the HSE on personal protective equipment, PPE, ventilators, related hardware and medicines directly related to the mitigation and contingency plans for dealing with Covid-19 since 1 February to date in 2020; the number of purchases that were made outside of the public procurement process; and if the Office of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: People will continue to have a problem as long as the power imbalance has been shifted so much in respect of Standing Order 218. It almost works against the committee and in favour of the witnesses so I do not see how we can continue, and effectively do our work, without change or a rebalancing of Standing Order 218. We must redouble our efforts to do that. It is like having a pair of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I was a member when it was called the CPP. I think the name was changed to Committee on Procedure in the last Dáil. There have been different interpretations of the Supreme Court judgment. It would be useful to revisit the judgment itself. It required a new set of rules to be put in place but it is the balance of those rules that is the issue. If we are going to have a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I think it would be more realistic to do it early in the new year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: There is quite a bit of correspondence in regard to several ETBs. Has there been a change? I know guidance was issued to the ETBs. Has the Comptroller and Auditor General noticed a change or improvement since that happened?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: The amalgamation of vocational education committees into a smaller number of ETBs was chaotic. If I remember correctly from previous examinations we had in this area, there was some really good practice and some terrible practice. There is also a Garda investigation-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, in one case, but a significant one. It looked like there was inadequate thinking around the amalgamations and that they were not properly planned. Some of this bad practice has come from that. How we stamp it out is the issue. Is there something we need to do in relation to this particular ETB? Has the committee written to it specifically?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: May I say something?