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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Official Engagements (2 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of home and away Republic of Ireland soccer matches at all levels and categories he has attended since he assumed office; if an organisation (details supplied) has incurred costs regarding his attendance at matches here or abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14892/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Meetings (2 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 443. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times to date in the past three years the Minister of State with special responsibility for tourism and sport has met directly a person, an organisation and its representatives (details supplied); if he will supply a schedule of those meetings; the nature of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We are not looking for something that size. We are looking for headings with a short synopsis underneath. Some of them might be self-evident. We are not asking them to go off and write a huge response to us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I was really surprised to see that number of total staffing in approved housing bodies. I have exactly the same conundrum as the Deputy. I am trying to figure out what they would be doing and what their function would be. Most approved housing bodies, as far as I am aware, allocate houses. There would be a degree of administration but I am not aware that there are care services provided...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It still would not be double or triple the number. I would not say that all the local authorities put together have 10,000 staff - they might not even have 5,000 staff - for a much bigger housing stock.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is just difficult to reconcile. If it is captured within the cost of housing, it may be making that housing more expensive. Are we doing something when we do not understand what the remit is?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is a specific item to which we will have to come back. Deputy O'Brien raised the issue but the information has not been provided yet. It concerns a particular premises.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Some of this is predictable.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, we are seeing a deficiency in internal audit. We can see where there was a lack of thought or planning in some of the amalgamations and things like that. We are seeing where computer systems might not be compatible and that kind of stuff. We are seeing what those organisations are presenting, even in terms of procurement. The fact that this is being done retrospectively should...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. There must be a regulatory impact assessment that looks at these kinds of things. Some lessons must be learned from these amalgamations. They are not the only amalgamations that will ever happen.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is no point in saying we are getting there with them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is a question of how we stop this from happening again.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We have made a national pastime out of creating problems and then going back and trying to solve those problems.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Rather than deciding to change the culture and do things differently-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: -----we should plan, predict and avoid the problems. I do not see where that actually fits in. That is a process issue for us as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Plan to fail.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: What does the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council do?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There would be value in doing it beforehand.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: In case I forget, the officials might give us a note on the remaining bidder for the national broadband plan, detailing from the date the tender process opened what the make-up of that bidder was. It has changed. I would like to know what it was, what it is now, what the various changes were in the interim and the dates of those, please.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: If we could have that, it would be helpful.