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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I will ask a general question then. When serious issues of potential fraud were flagged, why were they not followed up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Will Ms. McPhillips tell us whether they were followed up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Did the Department of Justice-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Did the Department of Justice report any of the projects to An Garda Síochána?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Was Destination North East-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: The reason I am raising this again is that this correspondence confirmed there was €43.5 million in investments in the fund but if we skip forward to this month, a further €40 million was allowed to be funnelled through that scheme-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: -----so that is €80 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: We will go back to plain and simple. Ms McPhillip's Department established the scheme. That scheme-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: That is a programme that has facilitated potential fraud. The Department has stood over that for almost a decade.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: It has been in operation-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: It has been in operation for decades. Ms McPhillips has accepted that the Department granted the golden visas on the promise of investment. That investment never materialised. For areas where particular schemes, or any scheme, were promised investment, will Ms McPhillips how they benefited? In the north east, in particular, how did the people in counties Louth and Monaghan benefit from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: The Department initiated a scheme where it granted golden visas to investors. Those investments, worth millions of euro, disappeared under its watch.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Ms McPhillips said earlier that she was pretty much washing her hands of it and that she does not follow it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: If issues are flagged, will Ms McPhillips furnish the committee with-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I think we need to have the Department back in on this. There are too many unanswered questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: To talk about the scheme in general terms, Ms McPhillips does not have to name specific schemes but where issues were flagged up years ago, will she furnish us with details of what follow-up took place and what steps the Department took to rectify them? What measures were taken to ensure that the residencies were rescinded after a review of two years, whether the applications were stalled or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I would like Ms McPhillips to furnish us with the details of that in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Could we be furnished with a list of projects which were stalled or stopped?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Imelda Munster: I will have to be brief. I will ask my questions and hopefully we can get an answer in that slim time slot. I would first raise the issue of the basic income for the arts scheme. Just before it was rolled out, the Minister gave a promise that she would work closely with the Minister for Social Protection to ensure disabled artists could participate. At the time I do not think any...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Imelda Munster: I will have to be fairly swift with this. Mr. Joyce made reference to the culture and creativity strategy and how there was no meaningful engagement with Travellers on that, and that Travellers did not fare in any way, shape or form and got very little of that fairly sizeable funding of €6.6 million. He also said the procedure for getting funding through the local authority community...