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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is a happy coincidence for Granahan McCourt that it got an extension on its concession contracts to 2030 when they were to expire in 2019 and then it sold three months later. The State could be at a loss if there is a significant holding from the IIF as opposed to private investors. Was a counter-factual analysis done or embedded in the cost-benefit analysis for the national broadband plan?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: A figure, for example, €500 million, is used in the cost-benefit analysis, including to see whether doing nothing is an option.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What if it is multiples of the €500 million? What happens to the cost-benefit analysis? Let us not even talk about this contract. What happens in a scenario where it is multiples of the cost-benefit analysis? Is it repeated in advance of a contract?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Including the counterfactual aspect?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Will we see it in any of the documents?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: That will be after the cheque and contract are signed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: In December 2016, the former Minister told the Dáil that as Minister he was threatened with legal action on two or three occasions with regard to the national broadband plan. Is there anything current with regard to legal action?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Nothing materialised on that. I will now move on to waste and Drehed. If we are looking at the EPA and waste being dealt with on a national basis, people could be in a very unfortunate position geographically if they happen to be in the area where the dump will be.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Or the incinerator that needs to process a certain quantity or it will be paid a State subsidy to make up the difference. There are huge implications. Any day of the week I could go to Sallins and stand on the bridge and watch trucks coming from Kerry and Cork where they collected the rubbish in the morning before driving to Kildare and dumping the rubbish in Drehed. It is not a terribly...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: If the Department is looking at repeating the regional plans I presume it will insist on this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Kerdiffstown is not on the list. This is the site that went on fire in Kildare and cost €20 million to remediate.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is not closed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: How much is left to do?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Department likely to get any of this back from the operator that built this mountain without anyone intervening?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if issues with the election observer roster appraisal process have been rectified (details supplied); the reason for the delay; the other steps required to finalise the process; the date on which persons will be placed on the new roster; the appeal process for unsuccessful candidates; the amount expended on consultancy fees to date...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of ambulances that are estimated to be despatched following a 999 call in circumstances in which the person is advised that the wait for arrival to the patient's address is more than three hours is recorded; the number of estimates of this waiting time or above given to 999 callers in an emergency; if the despatch times have been audited; if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51248/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 236. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of complaints and-or referrals to Tusla made by sports bodies (details supplied) from 2014 to date; the number of complaints and-or referrals made regarding sports bodies and-or persons working for the sports bodies from 2014 to date; the number of active investigations outstanding and-or ongoing concerning the sports bodies;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 631 of 27 November 2018, if the project has a full local authority in-house design team; if not, if the project has in-house architectural services and has outsourced the remaining design team externally; the potential local authority fees on this project at each stage through to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 Dec 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 631 of 27 November 2018, the amount to date of staged transfer of funds to the local authority relating to this housing project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51284/18]