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Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to bonds, from my experience at local authority level over many years, I note the only bonds provided in perpetuity at construction industry level were those of Anglo Irish Bank. Every other kind had a duration of perhaps seven years. Were there any Anglo Irish Bank bonds? Are the bonds the EPA would be getting in perpetuity?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I was going to say “prior” is the important word.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I presume there are not cash bonds.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is fine. Ms Burke mentioned conveyancing in regard to radon. Is it part of the conveyancing process?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It should be mandatory, ideally.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Are grants still available for remediation in regard to radon?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is a financial gain if we can reduce the number of people getting cancer. That is the realm in which this issue needs to be examined.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The agency has mapped the areas of the country most at risk, but the issue is not exclusive to those areas. My area is not one of the high-risk areas, but I am aware of houses in the area where high radon levels have been detected. I think it is easy enough to test for.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It might give a person a shock.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I would want to know if the radon level in my house was high.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Perhaps we should spend less time in the committee rooms. It could be dangerous to be here.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The agency carried out public opinion polls, in respect of which it is stated in the briefing that more than one third of adults, 37%, recognise climate change as the most pressing issue facing the country and that for 61% it is among the top three concerns. There is a public understanding of the issue. Does that public awareness cause the agency to focus differently on where it directs its...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Ms Burke for her responses.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 4 December 2018, his plans to conduct a historical review of funding to an organisation (details supplied) through the emigrant support programme and the reconciliation fund; if he has considered declining future funding applications from the organisation in view of recent media reports and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the Revenue Commissioners have engaged with an organisation (details supplied) over the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18161/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 4 December 2018, if he has undertaken to review past funding to an organisation (details supplied); if consideration has been given to suspending future funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18214/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Calorie Posting on Menus (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the issue of calories on menus; if his Department has conducted a regulatory impact assessment; the estimated cost regarding the implementation by statute of the proposal; if he has engaged in quarter 3 and 4 of 2018 and to date in 2019 with relevant stakeholders and representative bodies in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 603 of 4 December 2018, if she has considered conducting a historical review of funding issued to an organisation (details supplied) under the young people's facilities and services fund; the amount she plans to release to the organisation in 2019; the amount issued to date; if new conditions of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (18 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 283. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 614 of 4 December 2018, if he has conducted an historical review of funding to an organisation (details supplied); if he is satisfied all grants were used for the purpose for which they were granted; if he has granted funding to the organisation in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Communications (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the duration remaining on a contract with a company (details supplied) for the provision of digital radio services to An Garda Síochána and other emergency services; if no concession agreement exists in respect of this contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17950/19]