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Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses might send it on to us. Mr. O'Brien dealt with the issue of salaries in section 39 organisations just before the break. Has it been built into their funding mechanism? There were salary cuts when the crash happened. Has the restoration of funding from the HSE to those organisations taken account of public service pay provisions? Staff in these organisations are not public...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will ask the Department about this. Section 39s were subject to cuts. One would have expected a quid pro quo, in that, when there was some recovery, the same criteria would have applied. It is undoubtedly leading to a different pattern of service delivery, in that there cannot be a continuity of care.

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: They were cut to the bone from what I can see. There will be a deficiency of service because if there is an option to go and work somewhere else, people will choose it. I definitely see that pattern. It is not just about people's pay. It will be about the ability to deliver services too. Mr. Dempsey tells me that the Department of Finance essentially does not give the Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Vulnerable people are impacted by it. I will address non-compliance with procurement. Seven out of nine agencies that were visited were found to have breached compliance with regard to procurement. What visits were made to make sure that there was compliance? What efforts did the HSE make?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It seems that there was a very high level of non-compliance in those visited. It strikes me as something that would be a red flag to follow up on. The HSE has the ability to withhold funding for service level agreements. Does it cut funding or withhold it?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses mentioned St. John of God earlier, and St. Raphael's featured very heavily. It was an area that we discussed at a previous meeting. There had been quite substantial unapproved increases in salaries. Were repayments sought for those? Where is it at this stage?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is this the first time that sort of thing has happened regarding the seeking of a repayment?

Public Accounts Committee: Report of Comptroller and Auditor General 2016
Chapter 19 - Management and Oversight of Grants to Health Agencies (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What timeline are we working to for a conclusion of this?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of construction-related apprenticeships registered in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017, by apprenticeship type and numbers in a specific apprenticeship scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45426/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the formal role his Department has with an organisation (details supplied); if public funds are provided to it; the organisation through which it is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45437/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the chief executive officer of a training board (details supplied) is retiring early; if it was necessary to sanction it at Department level; the level this is sanctioned at; the arrangements being put in place for a replacement chief executive officer; the estimated timeframe for the recruitment process; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the date he plans to make a drug (details supplied) available to phenylketonuria sufferers under the long-term illness scheme. [45536/17]

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Healy, by agreement. Until senior decision makers are held personally liable for the decisions they make in the banks, we will not see a change in the culture. There is a really serious problem that keeps on coming up over and over again. This was either a dialogue that was had between the banks, or within the banks, that was essentially a conspiracy to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witness for her paper and her attendance. It has been very interesting. Not a day goes by without committee members learning something. On page 4 of Professor O'Keane's paper it is stated that pregnancy is associated with increases in anxiety and depressive symptoms and is the highest risk period in a woman's life for depression. That claim is referenced and it is a published...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I wanted to ensure that is understood. I was interested by the point the witness made in respect of the US study conducted where abortion was available. She said no comparative study has been done in an area where abortion is not available. Along with several other Deputies and Senators, I attended a symposium called by the Ceann Comhairle at the beginning of the Dáil session and one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: No, that is fine. It was regarding suicide rates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If Deputy Mattie McGrath chooses to accuse the Chair of being biased, I do not believe in silence as consensus. I do not subscribe to the Chair being biased. I do not see any bias.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their time and their papers. In terms of people who present to the Rape Crisis Centre, report rape and are being counselled, the issue of power in the assault will influence what steps are taken afterwards. I mean in terms of self-preservation. People may not want to go through a criminal prosecution because they fear they will not be believed. I ask the...