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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the locations of the sites submitted by all local authorities that were excluded due to their unsuitability to be included on the Rebuilding Ireland housing land map, by local authority and site location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44643/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites Data (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which an unfinished building is added to his Department's list of officially listed derelict sites (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44802/17]

National Archives (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Decisions we make today can have implications for how our history will be told into the future. How that will manifest itself is unpredictable. Many records are now held digitally and have been for the past 20 years or so. As the formats in which records are held sometimes become obsolete, we are faced with many additional challenges that we have to overcome. I will reiterate some of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The IDA has stated that ConnectIreland is in dispute with it and that it is a contractor. We have no way of knowing if this is good or bad value for money. I have a major concern about that. I would like to see more about this but I do not know where we could fit it in. It might be a case of having an hour-long engagement with the IDA. I am not sure whether it is appropriate to have an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The difficulty is that the ETB that we probably most want to invite-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: -----is subject to an investigation, which I understand will not be completed until March.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Leaving the Kildare and Wicklow ETB aside, and so that we might have a decent sample of ETBs to invite, it would be useful to be steered by the Comptroller and Auditor General as to which ETBs there was most engagement with on their accounts or where the same profile of issues emerged.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The amalgamations saw new systems set up to reconcile what happened previously. It would be necessary for us to keep that consideration in the mix.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. If there are physical assets like land or buildings they will transfer to the Office of Public Works and the Department of Finance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. In fact we have encountered the other side of the equation where a local authority sought one of the pieces of land to go and there is a mechanism to do so. None of this is very transparent. It is not just one Department that has an interest but several Departments.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Having said that, it is easier to audit something when it is cash. In terms of the value of the assets, whether lands or buildings, if continual valuations have not been carried out then how can one conduct an audit? Could some of it be used, if there is something from 20 years ago? I am aware of a piece of land that was transferred from a Department on which a Garda station was built. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Did we get a response from the Department of Education and Skills on JobPath? We were to write last week or the week before.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I agree we should afford Mr. Daly the opportunity to appear before the committee as soon as that is possible for him. I wish to return to one paragraph of his letter, which the Chairman read out as follows:It is also important that I emphasise that all information connected with the matters to which you have referred, and aspects of which have been the subject of certain recent media...

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Our time is very tight so I will ask some quick questions. There was a slight deviation in what Mr. Quinn said from what is written on page 2 of the short version of the second report, which states that HIQA had received correspondence from a private nursing home provider. Speaking before us here today, Mr. Quinn said that he had made some of the correspondence available. According to the...

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The use of word "some" is correct then.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: In his opening statement, Mr. McEnery said that he presented his credentials to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health. These procedures are not always followed to the letter. Sometimes people are appointed and then go before the committee. Sometimes they go before the committee and are then appointed. Can Mr. McEnery recall which was true in his case?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Was it after that that Mr. McEnery was appointed by the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The matter was moot when it was brought before the committee because the appointment had already been made.

Public Accounts Committee: HIQA: Governance and Management of Conflict of Interest Issues (19 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I just wanted to establish that. Based on recent figures, a significantly growing number of nursing home beds are provided by the private sector. We heavily rely, then, on regulation and on the need for that regulation to be independent. Is that correct?