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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Mr. Moran has listed different changes, including the fact there is a person dealing with the State's accounts with 20 years accounting experience, there is a risk officer, several project management teams and so forth. The Department has been totally restructured in the past two years. There has been a total change in the landscape in terms of how the Department of Finance works. Is that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I wish to ask about the accounts for County Cork Vocational Education Committee from 2011. I understand they have not been signed off yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Does this relate to issues we discussed in the committee previously?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When does the Comptroller and Auditor General expect to have that back from the VEC?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (8 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1190 of 16 July 2013 if he will introduce a pilot scheme in Dublin city to trial the use of partial footpath parking in residential areas. [20700/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: With respect, I think we are at risk of making this personal. When the Chairman reads out correspondence like that, it only furthers the aims of those who would like to think this is a personal witch-hunt against individuals. That is private correspondence received by the Chairman. He can put it in the nonsense file if he wants to, but we are only helping them to create a perception that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: We have received and noted these letters and perhaps it is courteous to send a response, but we do not need to elevate them to a status they do not deserve. We should not be sidetracked by them. Previously, we agreed a course of action in relation to the activities of Rehab, and we should now follow that as quickly as we can.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Just to clarify, when we seek compellability, we are seeking to enter into the mode of compellability, under which we then request papers, individuals or bodies as we deem necessary in the course of our being in compellability mode.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: It is important that we have that tri-annual report before NAMA comes before the committee. There are many questions we want to ask off the back of that report but if we have not seen it, we will not be able to do that investigation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Should we write to the Minister requesting the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Regarding the previous meetings, we were meant to pay a visit to NAMA as part of the sub-committee of the Committee of Public Accounts and that was postponed. Is there an update on that visit? Also, does the Comptroller and Auditor General have an update on the tri-annual report he is completing?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: What happens to the report when it goes to the Minister? Does it come automatically to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: So we, as a committee, cannot review that report until, at the Minister's discretion-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: -----he releases it to the committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: And the visit?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When is that scheduled for?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Apr 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 8 April 2014, the Government’s position regarding the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and UN allegations regarding his involvement in Congo. [19013/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (30 Apr 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any progress by his Department or by the office of the Financial Regulator or by the Central Bank of Ireland in dealing with the banks on the issue of variable rate mortgages, the cost of which has risen disproportionately in recent years and contrary to market forces. [19661/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (30 Apr 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional measures he is considering to assist and prioritise first-time home buyers over investors when purchasing property. [19655/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (30 Apr 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons in receipt of two or more pensions from the State and the cumulative value per annum paid to these persons. [18622/14]