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

Catherine Murphy: 1338. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine; the estimated number of vaccines initially required; the estimated cost of administering the vaccine; and the length of time it will take [33250/20]

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

Catherine Murphy: 1432. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 passenger locator forms completed and submitted from 1 September 2020 to date in 2020; the resources he has made available ahead of the period 1 December 2020 to 8 January 2021 in order to process an increase in traveller numbers; and if he has consulted with his colleague in the Department of Justice in respect of staffing in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Watt mentioned officials in his Department shadowing officials in other Departments. Obviously, that is the methodology. The issue of the national broadband plan was raised on one of the previous occasions Mr. Watt was in front of the committee. He committed his views from a value for money perspective to paper. The contract has been signed. I presume his views have not changed....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Does somebody in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have oversight of how that is playing out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: What would happen if there was an issue of concern within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, for example, the national children's hospital? We are acutely aware that work did not recommence on the hospital and there was a dispute. We can read into that what is happening there. How does the Department maintain oversight of something such as that? Is there a reporting...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: So Mr. Watt would hear about it before it would come to the floor of the Dáil or end up with the Department if there was a supplementary-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Has anything come to the attention of the Department regarding a significant overspend on the national children's hospital?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Has anything come to Mr. Watt's attention relating to the national broadband plan? We all accept there is a need. The need for a proper system of broadband was never more evident than it is at the moment. That is entirely separate from how we fund it and keep control of the spend on that. Has anything of concern come to Mr. Watt's attention? It looks like, for example, the ESB is being...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I refer to the OECD report and its findings. What action has been taken on that? What risks is the Department identifying at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Are there training and costs associated with hardware and software?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the OECD report and get some sense of how it will be delivered on. Is it likely that it will be done in increments across particular categories? For example, will the property assets be in place for 2020? Will the Secretary General give us some sort of an idea? Has Covid put it back? What can we expect to see over the next two or three years, particularly this year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Can Mr. Watt give us a note on it so we have some expectation of what we might see? What kind of projected costs are there? Obviously, there will be changes of equipment and software and hardware. How will that be procured?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Will this be done on a Vote within each individual Department? Are we going to see a fragmented approach? Where are we going to see that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Watt will send us a note on that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will meet with the representatives of the financial services union regarding a bank (details supplied) [32208/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have engaged with and or corresponded with a bank (details supplied) and or a service in relation to the possibility of the bank withdrawing from the Irish banking market [32207/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commissioner for Environmental Information (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Commissioner for Environmental Information sought an order for costs in respect of cases (details supplied) in cases in which it succeeded or the other party withdrew the appeal; if an order for costs was granted the amount of legal costs recovered in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32153/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given by him and or the HSE that a national clinical practice guideline for the management of multiple pregnancy will be put out for public consultation in order to give persons and representative organisations an opportunity to put forward their views in relation to what the revised guidelines should look like; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if representative organisations will be key stakeholders in the revision process of the HSE national clinical practice guideline for the management of multiple pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32202/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the witnesses, whom I have met on numerous occasions in this forum. I want to ask about the claims. In 2019 there were 83 claims but I want to ask about the 2018 claims. The average claim was €5,300 but the average legal costs were approximately €12,900, which is almost €13,000. Why is there such a big difference? What is the Department doing to learn from...