Results 14,021-14,040 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: I will discuss now weaknesses in controls over fixed assets. There are some assets that Mr. Gleeson cannot locate. What would be the nature of those assets and is there a value on them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: What kind of things are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Excuse me, but in Mr Gleeson's mention of motor vehicles, how is one not able to locate a motor vehicle?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Mr. Gleeson has put these into a value pecking order. What is on the top of that value list?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Would Mr. Gleeson not have money value beside these assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Mr. Gleeson must have a ballpark value on these if he is putting them in a pecking order.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: How can Mr. Gleeson rank assets then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: It is not if it is a 1974 Fiat Punto in comparison to a brand-new computer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: There is obviously a weakness. It must be decided then how funds will be spent. If things are at a point where they are fully depreciated and have no value, are we then expending valuable administrative time on matters where we are overstating a problem here? Having said that, is there a tracking system for items that are purchased now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Moving to the underspend on salaries, this is something that we see nearly every week in the committee, where we are usually told that there is a difficulty recruiting people. Is it correct to say that there are 62 retired Civil Service staff who have been re-engaged by the Department which cost €1.6 million? Can Mr. Gleeson confirm that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Why would they have been rehired?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Are these people contracted or directly employed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: On the question of underspend on salaries, what is the Department's complement of staff, what numbers are being recruited, what areas are the Department finding it difficult to recruit in?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Yes, every week.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Does it take a long time to recruit through that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Is it the same now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: How many people does the Department employ and what is staff headcount?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: What is the optimum number, as opposed to the number that were employed? How many people were being recruited at that time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: Have you reached that figure since?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Catherine Murphy: What areas are we talking about, were they specialist or administrative areas?