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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Chair-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Can I go back to a piece of correspondence? It is No. 2477. I did not indicate it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It is quite useful in advance of our meeting with the Department. This is one particular facility. We are being given information that we do not generally see. Members will remember that the residents' association wrote to the committee. It was dissatisfied with the response and made the point that this is public money, that procurement rules were not properly followed, etc. I reiterate...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. We all get these documents, and the Chair will recognise that. We get documents before people are going to be accommodated. The Department tells us the number of people involved and so forth. Our understanding was that there were to be somewhere in the region of 90 people accommodated in this facility between the outbuildings and the house itself. There was an amount of money, in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There are pictures of mould. I have asked parliamentary questions about this particular house and about other facilities, not necessarily only in my own constituency. I got replies stating it would not be in the public interest to give me the information in respect of the renewal of a contract or whatever else, or even telling us the amount.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: They should be.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We are relying on the Department to give us accurate information. The reality is that this does not have the benefit of an exemption from planning permission. In reply to parliamentary questions, I have been told that this house specifically requires planing permission. There is an enforcement notice with the local authority. To be honest, I have no problem if exceptions are there to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am not sure how it could have been open for six months.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There are supposed to be 90 people. There is an issue for the Committee of Public Accounts. What contracts were awarded? Do we know the number of people for whom there are contracts to provide accommodation? Are those contracts dependent on people being in the facilities? If it is contracted for 80 or 90 people and there are 50 in it, then things do not stack up in the context of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Is that not one of the things that Benefacts did?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We might point out the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It is agreed. I presume that the rota will move up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I refer to the rotas of the members who are leading.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am also interested in the number of people contracted for and the number of people who are in the facility.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will consider a public information campaign to advise passport applicants that consent forms downloaded and completed on mobile phone devices will not be accepted, as security features may not be present on the form; if advice as to how best to download, complete, submit and manage consent forms can be provided as part of...

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will speak directly to this motion and will not stray into the issue of the EU migration pact, which is not on the agenda today. Migrants make up a significant share of people who have been detected as trafficked into forced labour, which can be more properly described as modern day slavery. It is a lucrative area for criminal networks that engage in this activity, as the Minister has...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It is a case of “Start as you mean to go on”. We hope this is not going to be the way we continue with the business. The last time I looked, the Constitution provided that the Dáil decides on the business of this Parliament. The Government is telling us what the business is today without consultation. We have a Business Committee that has become a facade. This is all...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (10 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met formally with the Malaysian Ambassador to Ireland to date in 2024. [15565/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (10 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans, if any, that TII has in respect of an advertisement campaign on both social media and national radio reminding drivers to ensure that they pay their tolls before 8 p.m. the following day in order to avoid other fines and penalties that may issue. [15546/24]