Results 15,401-15,420 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The other issue is the coverage. Some areas in the country covered by metropolitan area networks, MANs, contain blackspots. We also looked for that. It is more to do with mobile phone coverage than it is to do necessarily with the MAN. However, it is one of the documents that was requested. We should specifically go back after that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We were to receive information on black spots. The Department promised it before Christmas. It was on the existing state of the fibre and where there were black spots.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: This applies in other parts of the public service. For example, a local authority has a legal requirement to give a decision for planning permission within a specified time. It becomes almost the number one requirement because there is a legal requirement. While it is a different scenario, the lack of a legal requirement to do this puts it down the pecking order. When we issue a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Can I just draw attention to something? Fairly large claims go to Irish Public Bodies but many State agencies, such as Dublin Bus, cover their own liabilities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, but even local authorities will cover a certain component of their liabilities themselves. We are not seeing the totality of the claims throughout the public service. Is that stated anywhere in the accounts? Is there mention of the liabilities that do not go up the food chain to Irish Public Bodies Mutual Insurance, IPBMI? I refer to claims that would normally fall under the category...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: When they are all combined, it could be quite a sizeable amount. That is carried as an insurance cost but it is funded directly from the Vote as opposed to by an insurance company such as IPBMI. There is no collective figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The problem is that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The problem is that it has actually increased the delay in obtaining results. That has been an issue. If somebody is to be screened, there is an interval between screening that is appropriate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is right and appropriate that there be such delays. If a test was to be done now, a woman would not want to have another one in six months' time because it would not give her any extra information because there are intervals for a very specific purpose. The key issue was the way the information had been presented and the lack of transparency in determining the associated costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The local policing board in Kildare discussed this matter and adopted a policy on it. There is an expectation that if one puts a camera up out in the countryside, it will solve all sorts of problems but the practical experience is that it does not. There are locations where they work and others where they do not work. Too much is expected of CCTV schemes. The other issue is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: This is the one the Chairman referred to earlier.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Of Enet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: No and we need to get the information. Essentially we were told that an extension was given to a contract years in advance of when it was required, that may well have ended up costing a State entity - not necessarily the one that was dealing with it - more. The committee wanted to know if public money was used, and whether public money was used in any of the amount that came from the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: And No. 1816.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is the €500 million - whether or not it is called on - public money?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The ISIF terms of reference show it has an obligation to make money, essentially.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Some of this-----