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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We cannot have accountability without transparency, and the absence of transparency opens up questions that might not even be valid. No group of people are better able to advise themselves on the law than the legal profession. They are in a commanding position. I have received replies to parliamentary questions on consultancy firms advising various Departments on GDPR. The committee must...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Now, GDPR is another component of that. I am an advocate of people having their rights to privacy protected but there is a balance to be struck that reflects the public good and the public purse. We need to get to grips with this aspect, since it will continue being rolled out. For years, we have seen that doctors’ practices-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: ----got the largest amounts. That was unfair sometimes, given that they could be practices with the most patients with medical cards when other practices were not accepting such patients. Some practices also had other stuff, so how the figures were presented were not entirely fair. How is it that one profession can be in the public domain when another is not? As this will be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will make a quick comment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What jumps out at me relates to the bog standard things that are involved, for example, cleaning services, schoolbooks, IT and transport by bus companies. There is nothing of a specialist nature. Actually, perhaps the IT element is. It might be a roll-over. None of this is the type of thing one should expect to find where there is not a competitive process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: One of the factors was flagged earlier. Wage inflation may well be a reason for an even further overrun. This is not Monopoly money and we must have serious concerns about cost control. There is an opportunity cost in what is not going to be able to be done. There is a degree of spin about this that no other project will be impacted. We have to keep a close eye on this because there is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There is one other issue. We have all come across it. When dealing with these at constituency level, we give people advice on how to proceed. There are many people who will not present and lose out on an education. This also needs to be pointed out to the Department. Irrespective of what comes back to us, there has to be some public understanding that if there is a difficulty, applicants...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is also a matter of what the legislation states. There is legislation guiding this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The correspondence was very useful. It is quite interesting that this is coming from the Data Protection Commission. There is quite a sizeable amount of information naming people. It jumped out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Page 2. It has the names of the people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I know, but my point is that they are individuals. It is just interesting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We will be back here in a short enough time in respect of this. When the representatives were in front of us, we asked them whether they have the resources. They have lead responsibility in regard to the technology sector in particular. It has a European dimension. They got a fraction of what they looked for in terms of the budget they anticipated. If they are not able to do the job,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There are a number of issues I wish to raise. We have talked about this particular issue previously and I agree with what has been said. These organisations are losing clinical staff because they cannot pay the same rates as the HSE. In many cases, the services being provided should be public services but often the charities are more flexible and are being paid less by the State for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, there are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There must be entirely different Chinese walls in existence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Last week, or the week before, we requested permission to publish some of the material provided to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We need to keep an eye on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is public information in respect of understanding how this works.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That final question is important. The county development plan interrogates a wider scenario than an individual development. It is a wider framework and not just about the development of an individual site. It takes into account whether there are water and public transport services and similar aspects. I refer to a breach of the county development plan. New wording has gone into county...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: This is important in respect of strategic decisions.