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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: You were the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The real leverage is the money. We can see that the dynamic changed when the money was withheld. A sizeable grant was allocated and quite a debate took place between the Department, Sport Ireland and the FAI; I do not begrudge a penny of it as it was totally needed for women's football. There was an opportunity for leverage there to insist on that change. Does the Minister regret that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The Department could have done more, by insisting on a governance change, the very change that was sought in the Genesis report regarding the independence of members on the board. We got a document from the Department on 10 April 2019, telling us of changes that were likely to happen that would have pushed out changes on the board to 2022 and 2024. That was very tame, moving at the speed of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Treacy think that is a fair comparison?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to flag some matters regarding the Mazars report. One of the big issues is that the 5% of funding coming through Sport Ireland is public money. We have a responsibility to hold Sport Ireland to account for it. There is also public money when it comes to merchandising, ticketing and so forth. A constant and understandable criticism is that the AGM is a closed affair. That must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Several people have said-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: My last point is that several reports have been produced. The Mazars report appears to be a very extensive piece of work. There are also the Grant Thornton Ireland and Jonathan Hall Associates reports. There is oodles of legal advice. It was certainly available yesterday. A lot of money has been spent on that legal advice that should have been spent on sport. Other organisations should...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is one particular matter, namely, the licence associated with Aughinish Alumina in Limerick. The EPA has responsibility for this and there has been an inquiry into it. The outworking of the matter was not very satisfactory. Obviously, it has been in the news in recent times because of the possible embargo on the owner but it is about looking about how that is handled, finance and the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It would be the same with landfill sites. In my constituency, in excess of €20 million was spent when an unauthorised landfill caught fire. It is about the degree of oversight and also an element of retrospection in the context of where we should be anticipating problems.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The Chairman does not want it to be major business in five years' time. That is essentially the point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: On a note of clarification on the matter Deputy Aylward raised, in case the perception is that a legal person there was running the committee, that was not the case. The Chairman wanted the support of the OPLA and that is an entirely different matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There was.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I know that but since I was there, it is important to note that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The Supreme Court will issue a judgment in due course but it has also commented. I am not here legally; I am here as a Deputy and member of the Committee of Public Accounts. The Kerins case has been misused. We are perfectly entitled to ask questions as long as we do not go beyond our remit. The Supreme Court was particularly careful in highlighting the distinction between the Dáil,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We will have to see invitations in future.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I picked out exactly the same sentence about planning and good governance and the point that policies start with good data. We have never had a greater body of data available to us and the ability to manipulate it because, obviously, we have IT systems that allow us to do that. At the same, we have bigger traffic jams, a shortage of school places, schools in the wrong places at the wrong...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses told us a senior appointment would be needed to get to grips with that. Is there a timeline that the Garda and the CSO are working to so those statistics can be relied on fully?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is a very serious matter when the CSO cannot stand over the crime statistics. Mr. Dalton told us it came to light by virtue of some of the things that ended up in the public domain. Would Mr. Dalton have noticed there was a mismatch in the statistics in any case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We are signed up to EU Regulation No. 223/2009, and the statistics are Europe-wide statistics. How many other similar bodies to the CSO would have a problem with something as significant as their crime statistics? Are we outliers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I want to address two other issues. One is the consumer price index, for which specific categories of things are counted. Is the cost of accommodation counted in the consumer price index?