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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Are there outstanding amounts, which are perhaps with the Taxing Master, which Mr. Fraser is aware will arise? How is that predicted year-on-year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The final report relating to that tribunal was published in 2011.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It was very soon after the new Government came into office and, within months, it was one of the political bumps that the latter had to be overcome. It is now 2019.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. When it estimated the €4 million for this year, the Department could fairly accurately predict what is likely to come in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Can Mr. Fraser provide an indication of how old claims can be? We can see that this dates from 2011, which is when the tribunal concluded its work. It was going on for some years before that. I will use that as an example. Can claims be outstanding for 15 or 20 years? Is there a cut-off point or a statutory limit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It would engage with the Taxing Master if necessary.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to the Citizens' Assembly, the outturn was less than the estimate, so, obviously, there was some flexibility. That went on almost every weekend over 12 months and it was a forerunner to a number of successful referenda. I remember the first and second divorce referenda. Had we had something like the Citizens' Assembly in advance, we may well have ended up saving money by virtue...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Would there be follow through? Is there somebody in the Department to make sure there is follow through on the reports that are received?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: May I ask a small supplementary question?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Has the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sought to have a standing commission or commission of inquiry established? Have other methods of doing inquiries been considered? Inquiries will always be needed. Have alternatives means of inquiring, for example, those used in other countries, been considered that would achieve the same results without incurring the same costs?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) received notice of discharge from the HSE and or a service provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6228/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (7 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 523 of 26 September 2017, the amount of subvention to Irish Water in 2017 and 2018; the estimated subvention for 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5983/19]

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: No, but some of them have been answered as the other Deputies have raised similar issues. The Taoiseach made a commitment in the Dáil that no woman would have to go to court, yet we are continuously seeing court cases. It is important there is an understanding of what the State can and cannot do in respect of court cases. Does the State have the legal standing to take a court case...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There were questions within some of those statements.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I too am happy to get the responses to the questions I posed and hopefully the Minister will have time to come back on them.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is important - we probably all have done it - to start by acknowledging the brave campaigners, such as Vicky Phelan and those who went public, but also the quite sizeable number, with whom some of us engaged, who did not go public but where information was fed back and forth. All of them should be considered as having done the State some service. Even though we are in a difficult...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Election Monitoring (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which the public competition for election observers and the specific subject of disability will be in line with the Civil Service public equality duty; if requests for appeal on the grounds of disability will be independently considered; the arrangements in place for election observer appeals; the arrangements made for disabled...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his engagements with the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the context of audits, inspections and or financial examinations; if he has given further consideration to include an organisation (details supplied) as a body that will be subject to scrutiny by the office; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in respect of a company (details supplied); the status of the contract extension; if there are plans to retender for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5930/19]