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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is not necessarily all the same topic. Some of the legitimate points raised are issues for the board of KWETB. Some of them refer to failure at the Department of Education and Skills. Did we forward something to that Department on foot of the KWETB problems?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We cannot do the work of the board. That is not our function. We have to separate these things out. Perhaps we could go back to the individual and point out the things that are properly within the remit of the board and then strip out the other things. We might then be able to see the wood for the trees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The board needed to address the question about legal advice and why the board was not consulted. If one does not change the culture at board level, change will not happen. It is not here that this needs to be heard but on the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Deputy Connolly's point is important, however. The Department of Education and Skills had a watching brief after the 2012 report. What emerged was a quite dysfunctional board and there is now a Garda inquiry into it. A full independent report has been done so it is not a minor deal. If the Department is going to have a watching brief or if it has issued a circular, we have to be sure it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In the third periodic report, which was published in May 2018, one aspect that we examined was RTÉ and the Eversheds review. I have been contacted by somebody to say the person is one of the people affected but that nothing has happened almost 12 months later. Can we have a full update on the progress on that in order that we can follow through on the matter? The committee had an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There was an expectation but almost 12 months later, nothing has happened. I presume that we will write back to RTÉ to seek an update and inquire whether there will be a full implementation of the report. Perhaps RTÉ will assure us in that regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Before we do the work programme, there are two reports that we expect to deal with. One relates to the national broadband plan and there is a time issue with that. When are we likely to receive a draft of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Will it be one report or a few distinct reports?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: If the decision is made to appoint the preferred bidder, the level of detail that will be provided is not known at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I do not wish to labour the point but a related matter is that some of the fixed wireless providers contacted some members of the committee after some of our hearings, when there was a headline figure on the per metre costs. Some people told me they expected a reduction at wholesale level following their dealings with Enet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am talking about the MANs. The quotes did not decrease but rather increased. I am not sure we got the information here that was-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Very well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: He is concerned with regard to the trilocation issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I apologise if I am going over territory that has been gone over already. It is because I had to leave the room to attend another meeting. I want to refer to page 3 of the opening statement in regard to data protection. Many multinational companies have their European headquarters in Ireland and they are particularly in the area where data and data protection is a very prominent issue....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: On the data protection area, I am curious about the extent of the independence of the Data Protection Commissioner. Yesterday, the communications committee was told it would not be able to release a report into the public services card until it got the go-ahead from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which is the lead Department in that regard. Has Mr. O'Driscoll...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I want to cover a few other areas, some of which have been covered already, including that of direct provision and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: Page 16, on Vote 24, deals with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. There was a saving of €800,000 due to not proceeding with an investigation into wrongful cancellation of fixed charge notices. My understanding is there are queues of work for GSOC. Could those funds have been used at the time to deal with some of those queues?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019) Catherine Murphy: I wish to move to an issue within Irish prisons, namely, tuberculosis, TB. The committee is looking at preventable issues, such as claims to the State Claims Agency. There was a relatively significant outbreak of TB in Dublin prisons, possibly Mountjoy, some years ago. Has there been a change in how such an outbreak is handled? It is a notifiable disease. Were there issues in terms of...