Results 13,401-13,420 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: To be perfectly honest, I take the Chairman's exact point. We encountered this before when debating a company associated with IDA Ireland. There was a difference of opinion on whether IDA Ireland or the particular initiative created the jobs. Accommodation and food services might have received €5,000.50 each. It is daft to include those numbers and have them circulated as facts. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: They are doing a great job but that is not-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It would be helpful if we could see information on the children’s detention campus and if claims are being taken by staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Or children. There is something that needs to be considered in terms of how that is run. It could be slips and falls. My understanding is that there are many-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. There are a lot of temporary or agency staff and there may be structural issues involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The Chairman skipped through this item and gave only the headline figures in regard to the senior counsel. It is important to put on the record that the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser, OPLA, is engaging with cost accountants regarding the recoupment of legal fees paid to the counsel in regard to the High Court proceedings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is not just an outlay; there is a recoupment, in particular for the High Court aspect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The number of speeding fines that were not followed up on was announced on the news in recent days. That is an income. The Chairman is talking about spending money on the canine unit. I would say there is an income that has not been recouped. It is not only an income. The whole point of the speeding fines is to make the roads safer. There could be a price to pay in terms of human cost....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We need to follow that through.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Before the Chairman moves on, I would like to thank Mr. Robert Watt for his update on gender equality.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The explanation was-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There are two items which the Chairman might dispense with, Nos. 2361C and 2379C.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is correspondence from Deputy Cullinane and from me. It has been dealt with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Which Department was sponsored the whistleblowers legislation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The difficulty is that we are seeing a trend. There is a perception that when one passes legislation, the box is ticked. The problem is that the trend suggests that there are cultural issues where whistleblowers are seen as a nuisance and are fought all the way. Several high-profile cases demonstrated this and have put people off coming forward with information that requires to be brought...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Has there been any progress in bringing Irish Water under the Comptroller and Auditor General's remit? I know there was dialogue ongoing with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In her opening statement, Ms Dixon said that in 2018, the Data Protection Commission was the eighth largest national data protection agency in the EU and she cited the British and French agencies. She will have looked for resources from the Department. What did she look for and what did she get?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Ms Dixon might give us the figures for both. If the commission is to become wholly independent, where it starts from will be incredibly important. The lead supervisory role obviously imposes additional obligations. Ms Dixon said the commission was the eighth largest of the data protection bodies in the EU. In what positions are the UK and France bodies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.