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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, there are a couple of issues. On page 5 in the second paragraph, it reads, "In respect of the oversight of exceptional funding being provided to the Peter McVerry Trust, the Department has put in place an Oversight Group made up of representatives from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Dublin Region Homeless Executive." Obviously, the Dublin Region...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: .... There is a practical example in my constituency. The OPW negotiated a deal for the purchase of land at Castletown House in 2021. It told us that the cost would be somewhere in the region of €5 million. Essentially, there was either a blockage in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform or that Department stopped the sale. The land...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: In the table on page 2, the claims that jump out are the big ones. There were 389 claims for Mountjoy Prison with an estimated liability of €14 million. There were 102 claims against the Portlaoise Prison campus. It is a lower number of claims but the potential liability is €12.9 million. It would be useful to pick out a few of these and ask the SCA to expand on the nature...

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...relating to some of the legislation he previously brought forward to clear the backlog. Is there also a wallchart to show where the issues are arising? Our population has grown from 3.6 million to well over 5 million in the past 25 years, but our systems and services have not grown at the same pace. Many of the services are stretched and our society has also changed considerably in...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ..., if that is possible, transparency, accountability and redress. We know that at least 233 men have made allegations of child sexual abuse against 78 Irish priests from the Spiritans, with 57 of those cases having taken place at Blackrock College. Only three of the priests accused of sexual abuse against children were convicted and only one of those has been removed from the priesthood,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...to the competent authority for gas networks. The Department was notified about this programme on 8 March. The email was sent on 1 April, with a notification that a reply would be required by 5 April. It asked if there was a national plan to boost the deployment and connection to gas networks of biomethane. It goes on to specify that the extra volumes can be delivered by October 2022 or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...? Increasingly, we are hearing people talking about already being in debt. We know that energy bills will soar by up to €2,000 this year while fuel costs will skyrocket by an additional €1,500. We know there is a staggering 30% of people in fuel poverty who are spending more than 10% of their income on energy. We also know that people on low to middle incomes are the ones...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...more than a year ago. The information is quite useful. For example, the estimated outstanding liability related to the Irish Prison Service prisoner personal injury claims at 28 February 2021 was €63 million. Some of that is related to in-cell sanitation. I am happy to provide this document to the committee. There is no point in repeating all of it but we might just seek an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...will not exclude former contractors and it is, therefore, important that we ask RTÉ about the number of former contractors and if they are part of the work that the scope department is doing. No. 1285B is from Mr. John Hogan, Secretary General of the Department of Finance dated 2 June 2022 and providing information requested by the committee arising from our meeting with the...

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...in this Bill are existing EU law, coming from the sale of goods directive, the digital content directive and elements of the omnibus directive. The first two directives, both introduced in 2015, were due to be transposed into Irish law by 1 January this year, while the omnibus directive, proposed in 2017, is to be implemented by 28 May. Their inclusion in this Bill is welcome and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...proper planning and I would like to see that right across the public service. In her opening statement, Dr. Quinn referred to the contingent liability on the outstanding loans totalling €113 million. If we go back to the year before 2019, the maximum exposure was €5 million at the end of 2019 with outstanding loans of €30 million. How has that performed since?...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Catherine Murphy: .... We are hopeful it will not stay high but there is no guarantee of that. Oil and gas prices are rising dramatically and the Government's plan to offset those costs was to increase the fuel allowance by €5 for those who currently get it, although there is a narrow scope in who gets it. That increase will not even match the rate of inflation. This budget provides €520...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...fear or prejudice. The corporate enforcement authority must be ready and able to take on the most high-profile cases of anti-corruption in this country. The ODCE has experienced an increase in funding in the past few years, with €6.1 million allocated last year. However, the agency is currently underspending its budget allocation by €1.8 million. This underspend was...

Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...by the pandemic, but it is something that was needed in advance of it. We know that SCARP will be available to all small and micro companies, those which have a turnover of less than €12 million, a balance sheet of less than €6 million, and where the number of employees does not exceed 50. This covers 95% of companies in Ireland. It has already been stated that it involves...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (15 Jun 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount granted and-or drawn down in the context of the additional €5 million fund established to tackle littering, by each local authority, in tabular form; the heading under which each application was made (details supplied). [30913/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...on secondary legislation. We rushed legislation through last March in a very different environment. The Minister described that legislation as draconian and I agree with that description. In a million years I would not have expected to have to vote for that kind of legislation but the Covid pandemic has been extraordinary. It was a crisis and a time of great uncertainty. We did not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (11 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Ireland was allocated €1 billion of the €5 billion fund in January 2021. The fund was intended to mitigate the losses to Irish businesses etc. in the context of Brexit. It is said that some member states are trying to reconfigure how that fund is being distributed. Are we secure in the allocation we have been given? Has any part of it been drawn down at this stage? In...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...in the US contributed to the most dramatic period of prison expansion ever recorded, where the national prison population grew from approximately 300,000 in the early 1970s to approximately 2.3 million people today, disproportionately impacting in particular the black and Hispanic communities. America has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the prison population. One in seven...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...of the EU. We are generally supportive of it. It is welcome to see legislation that will tackle this issue, given that estimates of the volume of fraud against the EU budget range from €400 million to €5 billion, including an estimated €1 billion linked to VAT fraud. This is a massive expense on the European taxpayer and it removes a huge sum from vital services and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: ...I go over old ground. The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, which was a combination of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, had a huge cost somewhere in the region of €35 billion. It was €30 billion and €5 billion, respectively. Much of that is simply not recoverable. We can see that €682 million was received by the Exchequer in...