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Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I sought this debate on Monday morning and it is a very different debate now, as others have said, from the one I anticipated. Nobody from the Opposition sought the resignation of the Minister, Deputy Naughten. Like others, I came here with a list of questions, and they will remain irrespective of who is the Minister. The process is central to what we are trying to unpick. We must be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The short-term impacts for some, particularly smaller producers, will be on their survival and the flexibility of a loan scheme will be important. The smaller the producer, the less expertise they will have available to them. It will probably be about keeping the show on the road for small niche producers. The requirement for proximity to the market for fresh food producers means there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What are the stakeholder meetings telling the Minister about the flexibility of the loan scheme? Is he listening to the stakeholders? Is he taking initiatives to change the nature of the scheme? Hand holding is fine to point people in directions but it may well be that systems are required to link suppliers as opposed to individuals trying to get a loan through the loan scheme and trying...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his contingency plans both short and long-term in the context of a Brexit both with and without a backstop in view of well established and highly integrated Ireland and UK supply chains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41575/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: This questions relates to contingency planning for Brexit, with or without a backstop. The agrifood sector is exposed to risks and geography plays a part in the fresh food industry. Will the Minister give an indication of the scenario where there is a deal and of the scenario in which we will rely on the backstop?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I think we all have a memory of those meetings because they were pretty exceptional. It seems to me, however, that there are two streams of issues for us. One is certainly value for money, but the other is the process. It seems to me that we were presuming that there were two separate processes, but there is a question mark as to whether that was the case. It is perfectly valid for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: -----piece of land if there is a need for something in an area, but it must be separated in terms of value for money. The €12 million valuation we hear about is now only €12 million if it was for housing. In fact, it was a lower valuation if it was for something else. I think I recall €6 million being talked about, so it is actually multiples of what the valuation was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: For how much did Mr. McCarthy's office look?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Can we get it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. That type of attack may well be counterproductive. There is an attitude within some of the third level sector - I do not say it is the entire sector - that this concerns their independence, that they have put in 20 years of hard work but that we are sticking our nose in. There are very valid issues in terms of spin-out companies, the funding of universities and all of the rest of it....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It may well be that it could happen in different locations around the country that are about picking us off.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I want to pick up on the issue of this building and others being brought to the attention of OPW. Are buildings of this magnitude for sale brought to the attention of OPW or is OPW typically constrained in respect of purchasing? Was that considered as part of the business case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Why would OPW have not have considered the purchase or build option as the primary option, given that the Department of Health will still be here in 25 years? There is nothing transient about it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What is the constraint on the OPW with respect to that funding? Does it go to the Department or is its funding finite in a particular year and decisions have to be made on that basis? Is it just a matter of being lucky as to the year one?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Did OPW do so with this project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Typically, if one is looking for tenders, one looks for three. There are three buildings here in play. There was the former Central Bank, about which we are told that there are serious potential costs for full refurbishment. The second one is on St. Stephen's Green where a tenant was seeking a substantial contribution to recoup its fit-out costs. There were impediments with the other two...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There was no choice.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is not just a question then of renting this building. There are other issues, including a full repairing and insuring lease.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: According to paragraph 6.31, the CSSO advised the OPW that the arrangement regarding relation to the maintenance to be carried out by the landlord was highly unusual and that the OPW would still retain responsibility for repairs and maintenance, even though it would be dependent on the landlord to carry out some of the work. The CSSO further pointed out that issues could arise where the...