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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Am I correct in thinking that this fund was set up using what remained of the pension reserve fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I would like to speak on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I want to make a particular point. We were provided with a very useful table about procurement. There was procurement for this event but can we ask the OPW for greater detail about one or two of these suppliers? The same suppliers seem to emerge from the process because there may not be the kind of competition available to enable a genuine procurement process. Can we drill down into that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: No, I would like to know about the other entities involved in the process and what the process involved. I want to know whether it was advertised and so on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Perhaps we could just pick the item I outlined.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The Irish Sports Council or Sport Ireland is the oversight body and that is how the money-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I have written seeking that the Minister appear before the committee because there was political sign-off on this project. The Taoiseach is well aware of the project because the go-ahead for it was given while he was the Minister for Health. It would be of use for the committee to investigate the checks and balances that are in place for other projects as well as this one from which we can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to declare an interest in this matter as a member of the commission.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The project is due to be completed in April and the building occupied before the summer. It is a matter to which the commission is giving close consideration but I do not have figures for any overrun.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: May I ask a question of the Comptroller and Auditor General in that regard to ensure we cover all of the bases?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is there a Department or a body that specifically examines capital projects in regard to expertise or is that the responsibility of individual Departments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There is one other entity which is a collaboration between a selection of small companies that are under one remit. I will give the Chairman the name later on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Part of our remit is process. Another part is in respect of historical spends. There are issues that we would welcome talking to the like of BT about, for example in respect of the metropolitan area networks, MAN, contracts and some of the decisions that were made around them. It is perfectly legitimate for us to be getting a degree of expertise. Each organisation will have its own...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Catherine Murphy: Can I go back to the issue of compensation claims? I have some information I received as a consequence of a parliamentary question. The State Claims Agency handles the claims. Does the agency work with the Prison Service to mitigate and reduce claims? Does the agency play an active role?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Catherine Murphy: Does the agency provide the Prison Service with a report? Are there recommendations and does the Prison Service generally take the recommendations on board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Catherine Murphy: There seems to be a number of categories, or that was the response I received to my parliamentary question. For example, something that jumps out to me addresses why claims occurred. The numbers I have were from 2016 and 2017. One of the categories was self-injurious behaviour where somebody has inflicted an injury on themselves. Why would that be a compensatable category if somebody was...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Catherine Murphy: Are those the reasons there was compensation for bacteria?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Catherine Murphy: Why was compensation paid in cases of prisoners harming themselves?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Catherine Murphy: It jumped out at me. In each year, it comes to around €50,000 and it is a distinct category. Can Ms McCaffrey supply the number of cases where, with or without prejudice, compensation payments were made in cases relating to protected disclosure and non-disclosure agreements? Were payments made, including pension time, for any of those claims?