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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (26 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a marked signed copy of the contract and associated documents he signed with the preferred bidder of the national broadband plan will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48806/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax Review (26 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress the baseline review group has made regarding the local property tax to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48566/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. It is really important that people feel confident in this incredibly important sector. The work of the witnesses is incredibly important from that point of view. When I went through the list of charities, I noticed that some of them have 19th century names. People know the names of many of the big charities, but there are also local charities like schools...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I would not dispute that. The issue that came to public prominence was on the CEO and administration side. Some of the salaries were very large and very generous.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I have been looking at the authority's organisational chart. We have been told that it has 37 staff on its books at the moment, but I can count 43 people on its organisational chart. There are some vacancies as well. The higher up the ladder one goes, the greater the proportion of vacancies. There are vacancies for positions like head of legal affairs, regulatory lawyer and head of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I do not see that. It has been set out as a hierarchy in the organisational chart. I am not saying that the organisation is hierarchical. Ms Martin has spoken about teams. I am trying to visualise how the 37 people who have been mentioned fit into these teams. There is an overall administration as well. The administrative staff are probably not part of one of the teams in question. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. The authority is funded, or potentially funded, for a complement of 53. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Right.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. Are they direct employees, or potentially direct employees, as opposed to agency employees? Another organisation that was set up recently had more people in on contract than direct employees. I hope we are talking about direct employees.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Has the position been regraded?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Who has responsibility for regrading?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: A number of things cropped up in the earlier discussions that I wish to go back over. There are quite a number of small charities where there is an overhead to have an audit, and yet they are very small organisations and there are multiple charities in the same sector. That can be seen in the list of charities and their functions. Is consolidation discouraged, or if a body comes along and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: When answering Deputy Kelly, Ms Martin talked about the Probate Office, and that there is this reactive prompt, where somebody brings something to the regulator's attention. Obviously people are asked, when making a will, to think of charities and such things. There may well be people, in some cases, who do not have family members who will follow things up, and these are the ones who will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Are the two systems capable of talking to each other?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: They are not, at the moment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The way our education system is set up probably comes as a big surprise to the vast majority of people. It is publicly funded in terms of the building of schools and the payment of teachers. There is an inadequate amount of money provided to run schools, hence the reason fundraising is required. It is would come as a surprise to people and they would not think that their national school,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is a policy area. On the investment fund, does the Charities Regulator determine the investment policy? How is that determined?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Scanlon take us through how the fund arose?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is €35 million in that fund as of 31 December 2018. Davy Asset Management brokers manage the fund but the Charities Regulator's office is the custodian. Who are the beneficiaries of that fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: And all of those charities who own that fund are still live charities. Are they all regulated by the Charities Regulator?