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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electric Vehicles (3 Jul 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of charging ports and parking bays for electric vehicles at his Department building and other buildings used by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28895/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Jul 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Planning and Development Act 2000 makes provision on the way in which to proceed with a planning application to take into account the impact of a planning application on the unique features of the existing physical landscape and-or subterranean features in the context of environmental impact assessments,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (3 Jul 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the period of time for citizens' submissions in the context of planning applications made directly to An Bord Pleanála in situations in which the local authority is bypassed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28977/18]

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister informed us earlier that the figures for this month show an increase of 12 in the number of families that are homeless. A total of 57 adults and, heartbreakingly, 137 children have become homeless since the previous set of figures. The Minister told us not to panic and that the figures do not paint the whole picture. He set out other provisos to try to convince us that things...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Another issue we were to come back to under that heading involved Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. In the past week or so, there was a television programme which outlined some of the procurement issues there. Some of those will fall under a criminal investigation. Some of the issues, however, will not. Certainly, I am picking up deep concern about the waste of public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: My recollection of that meeting with RTÉ was that there were many questions that we would have like to have answered on that very specific topic. However the report that was being prepared was referred to constantly and, as a consequence, it is unfinished business. We have no choice but to return to it to close off that topic and get a full understanding as to whether people genuinely...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I cannot find it either.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There is a statutory review. Do we know the timeframe involved? No two cases will be the same, but there will be a trend. We will see things that are not working or which may need some amendments.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: How does a statutory review take place and we only find out about it by accident?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is a box ticking exercise.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Did we receive any correspondence directly from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform seeking our input, given that we are recipients of protected disclosures?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I am on a joint policing committee, probably like everyone else here. In Kildare, a protocol has been agreed and our money has been drawn down. The expectation from CCTV very often does not meet the reality. We have plenty of motorways in Kildare. I would say we have more than in any other county. There is an agreed a protocol. Maybe a suggestion is that the City and County Management...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Is this not No. 1408B?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It ties in with correspondence No. 1370B which outlined what the Department asserted had been done. As we discussed during our periodic review, this sector must be on our work schedule in its own right. I believe that is what we will recommend. According to this letter, property standards were cited as the reason for 210 exits. All of those must be in my constituency, given that I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We must decide to do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Are there recommendations in the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Not to labour the point, but the whole point of protected disclosures is not necessarily just to look at individual disclosures but also systemic failures. People are brave enough to put themselves at risk and come forward with protected disclosures, and protected disclosures are intended to reduce that risk. We are seeing something that does not fall into that category. This is not the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I echo the point made by Deputy Cullinane. The committee should not encroach on matters which are the subject of another process. This issue is being seriously scrutinised by the commission of investigation. The letter states, "the Sole Member has formed the view that some of the information provided by Mr Miskelly may be relevant to the Commission's Terms of Reference". Do we know what...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Processes are really important as they determine the outcome. We have spent an awful lot of the past year dealing with this sector. I believe it would be fair to say that we were not impressed with the oversight by either the Department of Education and Skills or the Higher Education Authority. The oversight is part of several of the problems that we discovered. They have not learned the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, Deputy MacSharry is aware of the contents of the documentation he received but we are not. Ideally, we would have oversight and the committee of inspection should have been set up right from the word go. What would be the basis of the IBRC coming before the Committee of Public Accounts? Is the Office of the Chief State Solicitor in agreement that a committee of inspection is...