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Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I am not sure that was focused on right from the word go, though that may have been due to the workload. Caranua's opening statement drew attention to survivors who required additional support managing their application as well as survivors who had received limited or no funding supports. It seems obvious that there was always going to be a cohort within this group-----

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Would Caranua not have triaged some of that at the beginning? The people who are able to come forward will do so. By definition, one would want to look at the people within the group who did not come forward.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is precisely the conclusion I have reached. That is a criticisable failure. I accept that there were staffing issues, that it was chaotic and that large numbers of applications and expectations had to be dealt with. However, Caranua should have anticipated that this was a very vulnerable group. We deal with people coming through our door all the time and one has to work harder with...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That was not very early on. When one considers the money that was spent, the bulk of the money was spent on housing supports. Ms Downes told me earlier that where there was a home ownership they were the people who were likely to end up getting more.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is where most of the money was spent in the early part.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: So the learning happened when most of the money was spent.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Perhaps Ms Downes would give us a breakdown of what was spent-----

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: -----each year so we can see the breakdown.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional staffing resources have been requested for the HAP shared services centre section in Limerick; if his attention has been drawn to a substantial backlog of up to ten weeks in processing payments to landlords from submission to receipt of payment; his plans to address the backlog by providing additional...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (17 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget provided for the HAP shared services centre for 2019; the amount drawn down; the estimated but not as yet approved for payment amount; if there is a shortfall, the way in which this will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42748/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (16 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the investigation into the findings of the Moriarty tribunal; if he is satisfied that the findings will be acted upon; if further consideration has been given to the transmission to other agencies of information obtained by the Revenue Commissioners under bilateral agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42419/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (16 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has engaged and-or consulted with the Garda Commissioner and-or other authorities in respect of broadening and-or abolishing the upper age limit on persons wishing to make an application to become a full-time serving trainee Garda in line with the PSNI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42502/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (16 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the last date on which he and-or his officials were briefed with an update by the DPP and-or An Garda Síochána in respect of the final report of the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42549/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (16 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the end recipients of funding that was initially given to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2008 to 2016 in respect of State investment in the intercultural plan of same; the reason for the gaps in 2013, 2014 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42554/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (16 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 245. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of responses received as part of the public consultation on the review of the Control of Dogs Act 1986; the timeline for the processing leading to his report on the consultation; the date on which he plans to publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42501/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I would like the Minister of State to ring the Limerick office. What is in his reply does not match in any way the experience of the applicants. That information must be out of date. It is not fair on applicants to put them in this situation. If their applications were being processed within two days I would not be on my feet raising this issue. I would not have queues of people coming...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. I understand he will bring the points I am raising back to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, who cannot be here this evening. The aspect of the housing assistance payment, HAP, I want to focus on is a serious problem that seems to have dramatically worsened in the past two or three months, namely, the delay in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 104. To ask the Taoiseach the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period. [41825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 106. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41815/19]