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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Is that available to the committee or is it internal to the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to refer to training and development and incidental expenses. There is a reference to contracted services and an additional €2 million in expenditure. Is that for one particular company? Is that across a range of different services?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: One point raised earlier related to people who were refused entry. If there is no immediate flight available, they are held in prisons. There was a high-profile case at the weekend. Does the Department look at the cost of this, apart from the human cost to individuals? I understand the young woman was ten days, if not two weeks, in the Dóchas Centre. Obviously, there is a cost...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: How much does it cost to keep someone in Dóchas or Mountjoy Prison, for example?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I can raise it in that context.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Many people who arrive do not arrive from the EU. The Department maintains they are arriving from outside the EU. Many countries outside the EU will not have direct flights into the country. I presume they come through another country.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: We are all looking forward to when we can get back to normal from that point of view. I can assume we have concluded at this stage. I thank our witnesses for joining us today and for the information provided for today's meeting. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for attending and assisting the committee today. Is it agreed that we request the clerk to seek any follow-up...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: We can all agree that 2020 has been a long and strange year. This time last year, we were facing into a general election where we knew that health and housing would be significant issues, and they were. Health has been front and centre all year and there is greater public understanding of the need for a functioning health service, a proper number of ICU beds, proper bed capacity, etc....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I have no doubt that a great deal of money will be spent next year. The one thing we cannot do is waste it; the other thing we cannot do is to take a short-term approach. Long leasing for 25 years on 90% market rents with a four-year review is an expensive way of delivering when the State does not own the asset at the end, but I am increasingly seeing it. Developers are being encouraged to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the rate of death in service of Air Corps personnel over the past 20 years is approximately twice the rate of death of that of Naval Service personnel when the figures are adjusted for service strength; if he and or his predecessors have ever commissioned an analysis of Defence Force personnel death rates and causes of death while...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 95. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the breakdown of Air Corps personnel deaths by categories of non-accidental death and accidental death while in service for the past 20 years to date. [42243/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Legislation (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the inland and fisheries consolidation Bill. [41406/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements he has and or his officials have had with National Broadband Ireland in respect of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive in the context of the National Broadband Plan: and if he and or his officials have engaged with the ESB in respect of same. [41899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions No. 61, 71, 73 and 74 of 17 September 2020, if he will report on the time frame when his officials in the Driver Vehicle and Computer Services Division who manage the NVDF will have completed the development of its application programme interface solution to allow specific real-time data to be shared...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance Data (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 17 September 2020, the timeframe for the creation and completion of a motor third party liability insurance database to capture driver details, including driver number when processing an insurance application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 17 September 2020, when his Department will finalise the development of a speed limit appeals process by which a member of the public can query a speed limit to the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41297/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the recent RSA advertisement seeking drivers disqualified in the past five years who are back on the road now to come forward for a new RSA survey; the number of disqualified drivers who came forward; the number of disqualified drivers who have received a €150 voucher from the RSA for their participation in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Penalty Points System (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has a separate database to record information when a learner or novice driver exceeds seven penalty points and is disqualified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41299/20]