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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Rights (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the issue of bogus self-employment contracts in respect of companies (details supplied); if he has engaged with the Revenue Commissioners on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26195/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the practice of value added tax being added to carbon tax in the process of charging persons for their energy use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26434/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact of the Climate Action Plan 2019 on the mutli-annual capital investment allocations for each Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26463/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 384. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the FreeStyle Libre device available to all persons with type 1 diabetes as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26294/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 594. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of the Climate Action Plan 2019; the extent to which the spending plans are already accounted for in other plans such as the National Development Plan 2018-2027; the additional cost arising from the Climate Action Plan 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26462/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 595. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to ensure that, in developing proposals for carbon pricing, the impact on low-income groups and those facing greater challenges adapting are factored in under the Climate Action Plan 2019; the action number in the plan under which this will be managed; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 667. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the new public transport projects to be delivered under the Climate Action Plan 2019 that are not already part of an existing plan, such as the National Development Plan 2018-2027; the cost of these new projects; the way in which they are to be funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26464/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Essentially, the legislation was presented in a particular light. The expectation was that anyone who was the original owner and transferred to NAMA would not become the beneficial owner again at a reduced price. That is shorthand for how it was presented. NAMA is probably being blamed for a shortfall in the legislation and in anticipating how things would play out. The public expectation...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is important to say that although the Comptroller and Auditor General had a role, the primary role was for NAMA. The spirit of section 172 could never have played out, and NAMA would have seen that most directly. We have all been knocking on doors recently, and I have noticed a gap in the planning legislation in relation to strategic projects. It is a small thing but when one notices...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: For the book value. That is not in the spirit of what was intended and it is certainly not how it was articulated publicly or to this House. I am not in complete agreement with Deputy MacSharry about NAMA. Soon after I came on to this committee, we had a few months of back and forth on Project Eagle and a report is bring done on Project Nantes. Some very good work was done by NAMA but...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We might ask NAMA if it ever did that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Can we get a list setting out the sites that were rejected, if there were loans attached to them and the amount for which they were offered? It might well be that they were rejected because they were too expensive or in the wrong location. I am sure there must be a list that we could get reasonably easily.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. It would be worthwhile to have such a list.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I will do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I would like to make two points. First, 12 months ago one would have thought that this allowance was established for the current President in his previous term but it had to pointed out that it dates back to 1938. It not having been administered in a public fashion did not afford the President, as a candidate, any protection in regard to it. It is the responsibility of the Houses not to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Increasingly we come in her to discover that people think we are idiots. Do the officials in the Department of Finance think that we cannot join the recommendation we made with the answer given and see that contradiction?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is downright insulting. It is not up to us to put forward Private Members' Bills. It is for the Department to include the recommendation as amending legislation and to do so to protect the President, whoever is in that office.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There was political argy-bargy here last year. The Chairman cannot say there was not. That may be the intention but it is not how it played out.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We could do with a departmental dictionary to explain what these terms mean.