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- 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: The committee held a significant number of hearings some time ago regarding Templemore and dealing with the issue of bank accounts. The Prison Service holds certain bank accounts. It seems to have changed bank in 2018-19. Is that something with which the Department deals or is it exclusively within the remit of the Prison Service? For what reason would it change banks? Would it be a...
- 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 ask Mr. O'Driscoll to send a note on that issue. There are several underspends in Vote 24. On page 16, it is noted that the estimate for the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner was €7.5 million but the outturn was €6.1 million. That primarily relates to payroll expenditure. What is the reason for that underspend?
- 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 understand that there was an unusually high level of recruitment while the office was ramping up. Is it now at full capacity?
- 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: How many people will be employed in the office?
- 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: Where are those staff located?
- 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 touch on the Probation Service. It seems that the level of recidivism is reduced when the Probation Service works well and, in that light, funding it is an investment. Is there sufficient capacity within the Probation Service?
- 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: What kind of skill sets are being recruited? Given that it currently has 404 staff, towards what capacity is Mr. O'Driscoll working?
- 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: How many community service supervisors are we talking about? Obviously, they are spread throughout the country.
- 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: How many have been recruited?
- 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: The service was hoping to recruit 17. Have 17 been recruited?
- 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: In terms of value for money, how much does it cost on average to keep someone in prison?
- 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: My point is that if we are looking for value for money and better outcomes, including a reduction in the recidivism rate, the cost-benefit analysis, if one is looking at it purely form that point of view, tends to suggest it is a really decent investment given that it is costing on average €68,000 to incarcerate someone who is likely to go on and repeat the behaviour if it is not...
- 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: It only works if there is certainty and a degree of sanction if people do not comply.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an executive summary of the key findings made by a recent external oversight audit conducted on the role of the Irish Aviation Authority as competent authority for aviation security here will be made publicly available; if he has been provided with a briefing on the matter; his views on the matter; when the summary will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the newly enhanced security arrangements introduced at airports on 30 January 2019 in relation to the requirement of airport police and officials of the Revenue Commissioners to be screened each time while passing between landside to airside also apply equally to members of the US transportation security staff stationed at airports...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (4 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum depth allowable for excavation of a quarry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15983/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Data (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if non-Government sports bodies have been the subject of a Revenue Commissioners audit and-or investigations in the past 25 years; the number of investigations that have occurred in respect of same; the number of settlements reached; the number of contested liabilities; the name of each organisation in receipt of public funds that the Revenue Commissioners...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason it was considered appropriate to force a small cohort to retire ahead of others (details supplied); if there are provisions available in order that those who want to continue in their employment may do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15528/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport Ireland Funding (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions he has consented to the advancing of additional funds in order for Sport Ireland to perform its duties in the past three years in the context of the Sport Ireland Act 2015; the amount approved; the reason they were requested; the persons or bodies they were to be advanced to; and if he will make a statement on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Funding Granted by Sport Ireland to the Football Association of Ireland and Related Matters: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I welcome the witnesses. In light of the time constraints, I will try to be brief in my questions and I would appreciate it if the witnesses could give me succinct responses. Mr. Treacy used the word "disappointment" in regard to the letter from the FAI regarding its non-compliance with the Sport Ireland request. Sport Ireland operates specific terms and conditions in respect of grant...