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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I presume it will be on an investment by investment basis and there will be different percentages.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I know that but, essentially, it will be able to do it by the investment in, say, the MANs contract or building houses.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: That is what we are looking for in respect of this case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Can I just say that I felt we wasted our time last week when had a couple of people before the committee in relation to cybersecurity? We really wasted our time. We should not be overlapping witnesses. It is not an efficient use of time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I know and appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is a huge issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I want to raise two issues on the work programme. The State Claims Agency does not seem to be factored in here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The point I was making earlier is that it needs to be a bit broader than that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The risk management side is well worth looking at. The second HSE issue which is not in the work programme that I am raising for the first time is HSE outsourcing, not under sections 38 and 39, but in respect of adult services for people with disabilities, how that is handled, how it is supervised and the amount that is provided. That is something that at some point in the first half of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: For example, myriad organisations provide adult services for people with autism straight after secondary school or there are also agencies doing this work and being directly supervised by the HSE. Reasonably often I come across issues relating to failures where services are supposed to be provided but they turn out to be inappropriate and the person does not go to the service. It is being...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I also agree.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We need to have a look at the structure of the State Claims Agency and we have not done that sufficiently. It became clear when we were looking at the CervicalCheck issue that proceedings had to be issued in court before the agency even knew about it. It did not seem that there was a mechanism to do open disclosure in a way that was non-legalistic. That has to be part of what we do when we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parental Leave (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which hospitals within the HSE are operating the unpaid parental leave scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that nursing staff fall outside its remit; the number of applicants for the scheme in 2017, to date in 2018 and 2019 by job role (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52504/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 444 and 452 of 27 February 2018 and the deferred reply from the HSE, the number of office staff and the number of trained medical staff that have availed of the shorter working hours scheme by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52525/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Do we agree to the work programme and then invite-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: -----or do we send the invite at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We will be dealing with legislation tonight that will be brought before us in time. Presumably, it will not be brought-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Right.