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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness campaigns to date in 2018, by month and company engaged in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39642/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options taken by developers in respect of Part V for developments between 1 January 2016 and to date in 2018 under each of the headings section 96(3)(a) and section 96(3)(b) of Part V for counties Meath, Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow; the location of each site in respect of transfer of land; the number of building and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a Part 8 development (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if his Department has released funds to the local authority to commence the project; if his attention has been drawn to issues concerning access to the site and-or engagements with other property owners in respect of gaining access to the site; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 648. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness campaigns to date in 2018, by month and company engaged in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39635/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: If one has a deficit, one must fund it from somewhere. There would have to be approval within the organisation's board to raise a loan from a bank or whatever. Is there any common denominator in that? Are there governance issues about which there are obvious problems? How are the deficits funded?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: However their governance would require them not to operate with a deficit. That must be approved somewhere, I presume?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Does it include a name?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Can the person be identified?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Chairman proposing to go back to Mr. Owens?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Just because the legislation dates from 1866 does not mean that it is wrong. My memory of the particular case is that money was unnecessarily paid in advance of goods being received. Further controls were put in place afterwards. Would a change in legislation have made any difference?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: When we met the representatives of the Tax Appeals Commission, what they told us about the circumstances under which they were working was jaw-dropping. They referred to computers going on fire, moving office with only two week's notice and so on. If we do not have a proper system in place we should not be surprised that we are not getting information in a timely manner. In actual fact,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously the Garda are looking at an aspect but will not be looking at the totality of the report. How do we get to the point where we can isolate what we can do and what is subject to the Garda investigation? We should not simply bypass the totality of the report by virtue of the fact that there is a Garda investigation. There are other aspects of the report that merit scrutiny.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: May I just say something about procurement as well? There is a process which we see repeatedly that all public bodies are expected to go through, but there is another issue with procurement in terms of value for money. We saw this with the library services, for example. They were bundled together and in fact what happened was that we lost the local jobs and local availability and they were...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Could we also get a list of the Garda stations that have been sold indicating for how much they were sold?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Could we also get a list of the ones that cannot be sold because-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: -----there is an income from the masts indicating what that income is?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I want to come in on it and reinforce the point. It is very unsatisfactory that this is still going on. I echo the points made about the person taking the case. He is trying to achieve exactly the same thing we would want to achieve by having the kind of oversight which has been suggested. It is unusual for the Department of Finance to be the supervisor in a liquidation. Notwithstanding...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What is the monetary value of the 71% yet to be realised, referred to on the first page of the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Catherine Murphy: That is generally welcome because there is a consequence. We will not change behaviour unless there are consequences, and the public element was part of ensuring there would be a consequence. We saw it with the HSE when certain amounts were not paid, or they were paid in retrospect if they were in compliance. In fact, it changed behaviour markedly. It might be worth at some point...