Results 12,601-12,620 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am reading from No. 2585C.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: If staff work an additional 12-hour shift outside their rostered hours, they are paid at a rate of time and a quarter instead of double time. These are agreements. It challenges what the HSE is saying. The allowance for working on a Sunday has been cut by more than €40. We are being given very practical examples. I am only using these to demonstrate that what one side tells us...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is recent enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am not actually sure. I just want to be sure that the system is fit for purpose. If it is going to be rolled out nationwide, we have to be sure that there is no problem with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The main issue is whether the HSE is 100% sure the system is fit for purpose.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We are all in favour of improving things and freeing administration staff to do other things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am not sure that is relevant to this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is important to acknowledge that although this is one letter, the committee is concerned about the matter. Ideally, we would reach some conclusions next week rather than allowing this to run to the new year. We need that kind of urgent response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I want to make three points. I continue to be dissatisfied that we do not have oversight of Irish Water. There were major transfers of infrastructure involved. Somewhere in the region of €11 billion in assets - some of them were liabilities - went to Irish Water. We need to examine Irish Water's income, which is primarily from public funds. It has an income from commercial water...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I ask that we write to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government about the consideration of local authorities' baselines. When will the cross-departmental group make decisions in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Kildare County Council lost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously that concerns paediatrics, but one of the matters we are likely to examine with the HSE is the matter of outside service providers. Along with other Deputies I was at a meeting with our community healthcare organisation, CHO, at which it was confirmed that the HSE is carrying out a major audit of a lot of the big providers. There is clearly an issue around value for money here....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The accounts refer to a fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are welcome. I have one or two questions arising from the opening statement. One of the things we do is try to decode language or spot things that may imply something that one expects to mean something different. I have two questions in that regard. The first is on the Blanchardstown facility. It was handed over to CHI. Since we last met, services have commenced there....
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: As I have limited time, I would like a response to my question.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: When will the facility be fully operational?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Catherine Murphy: When it is expected to be fully operational?