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Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I will submit an FOI request to that person. What provision has the Minister's Department made with regard to the liability relating to the PSC scheme? Has the Minister any comment on the mass action by Digital Rights Ireland under the GDPR against her Department?

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I will now go back to a point about the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport raised earlier. Presumably that Department went to and received advice from the Attorney General on such an issue. Would the Department go outside for advice on it? It is extraordinary that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and now the Passport Office, are at variance with the Department of...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is the point. There is a challenge in the report about the card not being an enabler. On a couple of occasions the Minister commented that she was very surprised the Data Protection Commissioner was not acceding to a request for a meeting. Did the commissioner not say that this was a final report? Once a report is final, one either accepts it or does not accept it. There is not a...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: When the report was received at the end of August, the Government committed to publishing it. Subsequently, The Irish Examiner asked for the publication of the report in a freedom of information, FOI, request and was told that it would not be in the public interest to do so. The response also said that publishing the report would have serious adverse effects on the Government's ability to...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I was not in the Chamber when the Minister opened the debate, but I listened to what she said. In some of it she repeated mantras about access to public services. However, it is important to note what the Data Protection Commissioner said that instead of it being an enabler for citizens to receive their entitlements, the public services card was being used as an impediment. We need to pay...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I have raised this issue in the Committee of Public Accounts and other forums. I understand it is complex and have been told there will be winners and losers. There is a view that we will know who are the winners and losers after the general election. The decisions being made by local authorities must be made in the context of next year's budget. Delays in this regard mean that local...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, will be aware that I have undertaken significant research into the operation of the local property system, LPT, specifically how it is distributed, and that I made a substantial submission to the review of the tax. I am sure the Minister will agree that the best way to turn people against a tax is to mislead them in regard to how it is to be spent. The reason...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Civil Service Staff Data (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 39. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants that have left and-or retired from his Department in the past ten years who were bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year and sector the staff moved on to. [38219/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Civil Service Staff Data (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 40. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants that have left and-or retired from his Department in the past ten years who were not bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year and sector the staff moved on to; and the reason for same. [38220/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new direct provision centres planned for 2019 and 2020; the way in which the proposed new centres are selected and or the criteria for same; the way in which the centres will be staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38586/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has consulted with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government regarding accommodation needs of persons that cannot be facilitated in direct provision centres due to lack of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38587/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if each aspect of service and accommodation aspects are put out to tender of if a preferred supplier list is used; the number of companies on the preferred supplier list in respect of services and goods related to direct provision; the frequency with which the lists are reviewed and or updated; and if he will make a statement...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is indeed. I understand the Revenue will not and should not give us information on individual entities. It would be useful to see if any trends can be identified. Most of those who do not pay the full 12.5% corporation tax do so because they can write items off. The pharmaceutical sector is a big one. We lose on the double because we pay high prices for our medicines and, at the same...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: And whether there are trends in the industry. Was it, for example, an error? Was it a write-off? Does the Chairman know what I mean?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Presumably, if they are coming from other European countries, there is an equal spotlight on their own industry or people from their own area. Is there anything inequitable about how we do things in comparison with other countries?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: One thing that causes a problem is where there are long gaps between the valuation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: People may have made alterations to business and things like that. Petrol stations have changed quite dramatically over the years and most of them have a very strong retail aspect at this stage. I am still unhappy that we are not really getting to one of the issues, and it may not be for this committee, which is how they model the valuations. In a shop, is the first couple of metres...