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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: No, it certainly would not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We are talking about the 2022 accounts. It is now 2024, not that we should toast that fact. Note 2 in the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General states that at the end of 2022, the amount involved was €1.24 billion. Note 8 indicates further capital commitments of €217 million. We know that €40 million was allocated to get the board through that Christmas. Why...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The committee deals with historical figures. When those historical figures have cobwebs on them, it makes matters way more difficult. This is particularly the case for this project because we could not determine whether or not it was going in the way it should have gone. We knew there was slippage all over the place. I will just say how unsatisfactory that was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: On the contract, because tendering is a very expensive process, contractors will only engage if they think they have a fighting chance of winning. There may be a contractor, for example, that went in low and made up the balance in claims. If that was the profile of how a contractor was conducting things, is that considered in the context of tendering for further projects? Is there any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Even when there is that profile, I just-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I know. There has to be an opportunity to challenge that. Mr. Quinn is talking about this tendering process being Europe-wide. If there is a significant flaw or a way that people can actually work or warp it to their advantage by the way they exploit loopholes or are very litigious, surely, that has to be challenged, even at European level. Have other countries looked at that? Is there...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I predict we are going to be repeating these mistakes, including in the building of the new national maternity hospital in the wrong place. While that is a completely different matter, when you look at the census of population and the demographics, babies are being born on the other side of the city, on the west side of Dublin and the M50, where the demographics suggest that a maternity...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: As the Cathaoirleach knows from his own constituency, there are young and growing populations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: No.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide specific updates in respect of each in the bundle Project Boyne; and the funding allocation made in respect of each project. [24473/24]
- Extension of Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (29 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would like to follow on on that theme. Every six months we deal with this motion and have been told today that the initiative is part of business support. I feel sorry for the Minister of State. He is standing up here and trying to say something different but it is pretty difficult to do that. We know this is a temporary provision and none of us will oppose it, but neither do we find it...
- EU Directive: Motion (29 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. The briefing document was very useful. The opt-in to this directive should, of course, proceed. Many aspects have been either clarified, updated or better defined. It also reinforces a victim's right to pursue avenues of compensation. This recasting of the directive tightens up many strands in the context of the detection, reporting...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Theft of Animals (29 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of thefts of domestic dogs and/or pets reported to An Garda Síochána in the past three years to date. [24231/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 16 May 2024, if, in view of the fact that compliance with planning law is a standard requirement for all such tenders, he will clarify his statement purporting to demonstrate such compliance could be regarded as being 'of a commercially sensitive nature'. [24232/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the national list of SNAs can be released in a more efficient and transparent manner in view of the fact that persons are left wondering if they will have a job for the new school term; and if she will engage with the NCSE on this matter urgently. [23845/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: 327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-bikes and e-scooters seized by gardaí within the Wicklow division in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23578/24]
- Business Support Package: Statements (23 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. One of the things business people will tell you is about the high input costs, including, for example, energy. We have some of the highest energy costs in Europe. It depends on the particular business but they will tell you about insurance costs. They will all talk about them but some businesses are particularly impacted by it. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. It seems to me that the discipline goes in one direction. Why was the Chief of Staff not told to be the Accounting Officer? There appears to me to be a bit of Teflon here. I will continue with the previous line of questioning. As regards discipline, the fact hat people were completely silenced led to a point where there was a crisis in recruitment....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: How much did it cost to defend the case where a PDFORRA member went to the High Court?