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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Rights of People with Disabilities (3 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to participate in a United Nations election to fill vacancies on the disability committee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40980/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Rights of People with Disabilities (3 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he plans to participate in a United Nations election to fill vacancies on the disability committee (details supplied); if he will detail his engagements with this committee since taking office; and his plans to support and work with it going forward. [40981/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not permitting dancing, ballet and gymnastics to resume under level three plans (details supplied) [40977/20]

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I acknowledge that the Chairman took down the tweet, apologised and has made a statement here. As Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts and a Member of the Dáil, the tweet got much more attention beyond Twitter in the broadcast and the mainstream media. That is not terribly surprising but it does have an external impact also beyond this jurisdiction. I sat on the decade of...

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Are the issues about the control over grant repayments and the review of the effectiveness of internal controls repeated in the 2019 accounts?

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: On the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, I draw the Comptroller and Auditor General's attention to the results of the EU audit. That is the very top item. Was any financial penalty accrued in relation to that?

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that we do that.

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: It might be helpful to pick up that statement on Thursday if that was possible, rather than us all going rooting.

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. There were a number of things that stood out. I will refer to one. The prefabs in the longest standing rental agreement have stood since 2000. There is a building going up now but one would have to ask about value for money in terms of the length of time that took and it is important that we note that. There may well be others that are not as long but that could be nearly as long....

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: What the Comptroller and Auditor General has said on the note is very useful. Perhaps we should recommend that there is an improvement so it is more transparent. I presume that we would write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to request it to ask all of the Departments to apply a different format so that people can follow this a lot more easily. In terms of the Department...

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to make a few points about public private partnerships. We know that the schools bundle 5 is not on time due to the liquidation of the Carillion group and have been consistently told that this is not a cost on the State by virtue of the way that the matter was handled. In Maynooth, there is a schools bundle 5 project to build two 1,000 pupil schools right beside each other. These...

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, liquidation is an old chestnut. Deputy MacSharry pursued an issue regarding the Committee of Selection and the absence of one. I note the increase from €304 million to €313 million. This is the biggest liquidation in the history of the State and the key issue for some of us is how such inadequate oversight has been overlooked. We...

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, I am not going to go through everything.

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Page 12 relates to dividends from State companies. I am not quite clear in my own mind about the differentiation between State agencies and companies. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit both? I can see in the documentation that some companies paid a dividend in 2019. Possibly, that situation will be changed considerably in 2020 because of under-performance caused by Covid-19....

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I think there was an amalgamation.

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: For example, if we had the Irish Greyhound Board or whatever it is now called-----

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: If we had them in, we would not necessarily be dealing with some of those subsidiaries and they would have to come in separately. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: There is no difference in terms of how the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General deals with a State agency and a State company.

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Public Accounts Committee (2 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I, too, have had a lot of communication with the correspondent over some time, have asked parliamentary questions and so on. The whole idea with this fund, was that where commercial banks were not an option for some SMEs, this would ensure that we had a strong indigenous base in that small to medium sector, which is incredibly important and one of the bigger employers, if it is looked at...