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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have a number of questions I want to ask, and I have little time. Will Mr. Loftus provide the committee with a note of situations where security is paid for, separate from it being included in the contract? We can look at that then. The Department said it plans years out. County Kildare is growing rapidly and gained 25,000 people between the two most recent censuses. We have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...appointment of a design team in March 2012 to complete the Temple Carrig School in County Wicklow. The school sought an extension and a design team was appointed in 2021 but the school is still at the first stage 37 months later. People at the school estimate it will take them six years from beginning to end to add an extension whereas it only took half that time to build the school. ...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There is no capacity for growth, however, even though the Department knows the areas are growing and have expanding populations. I refer to areas like Fingal, Kildare, Meath, south Dublin and Wicklow. It is not new that they are growing rather they have been growing and there has been a pattern of growth for decades now. Why would the Department not factor that in when looking at capacity?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Every year where I live there is a scrap for school places. Sometimes schools are asked to accommodate additional students and prefabs can be put in at fairly short notice for them. Presumably there is some budget for this every year. Will the witnesses give us an indication of this particular aspect where each year the Department must provide at a late stage for the accommodation of...

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...alcohol or drugs and distractions such as mobile telephone use, is most definitely a factor in some collisions. The reduction in the numbers involved in the traffic corps over the past few years rather than in increase is relevant when we consider enforcement. Temporary solutions, such as 30 minutes per day for uniformed members, is welcome, but it is not sustainable on an ongoing basis....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I raise the issue of services being rationed by the HSE. The executive will only provide one therapy at a time. Let us take, for example, a child who is neurodivergent and requires several therapies, such as occupational and speech and language therapies. That child will not get parallel services even if they are vital to his or her needs. If a child goes onto a children's disability...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Some people are being told they will not get it at all.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are giving us assurances that this is not going to happen again and are asking us to take them at face value. It is very difficult for us to take anything at face value from University of Limerick given that this is not the first occasion on which this has happened. There may well be different personnel involved, but we need to see evidence. We need to see evidence of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am sorry; we have just been told that UL was preparing for the previous meeting of the Committee of Public Account last year and Professor Laffan became aware of it at that stage. That is the timeline we are talking about. We had the former chancellor sitting exactly where Professor Laffan is sitting last year. She must have been aware of Rhebogue at that stage. Surely, Professor Laffan...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Professor Laffan certainly does not want to do reputational damage. Therefore, I would expect that she would make sure there is nothing that would contribute to reputational damage. Making herself aware of that and asking that question, at the very least, would have been prudent. Let us put it that way.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Right, okay. If people were to go and buy those houses in Rhebogue when they were being sold, I can imagine they would have assumed that they would not be able to compete with the university given the amount. Did people not know what property was going for in the area? This was not 5,000 houses. This was a relatively small number of houses with a very bad transaction. Even looking up the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Surely the governing authority that was in place at the time were unaware of roughly how much housing are going in the area for.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that we get copies of the minutes where this matter arose, whether it was at the governing authority or the audit and risk committee. I would like to see that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. Some way down the page it says that the main contractor has now set out its programme for completion of the construction and fit-out of the hospital by Q4 of 2024, followed by an operation and commissioning period of at least six months for Children's Health Ireland, CHI. I am not keen to just accept that. I would like to see it. We should request that we see the programme for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but look at the demographics.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously we had our own report and made recommendations. Some of our recommendations mirror recommendations made in the two reports. The Mazars report found an additional €674,000 sloshing around. An updated of the legislation relating to the Comptroller and Auditor General is being examined by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Engagements (8 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which and precise time she was notified by the UK's Home Secretary that their meeting of 29 April 2024 was cancelled; if she has made efforts to reschedule this meeting; and if any of her officials are part of the Tánaiste's attendance at the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. [20186/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 510, 511, 512 and 513 of 16 April 2024, if she will clarify whether the data provided is an accurate and true reflection of the data that was initially sought by this Deputy; and if she will provide the sources of the data she provided for figures relating to staffing figures at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will read out the line from the Comptroller and Auditor General's opening statement: "In 2022, performance-related deductions applied to public transport operators amounted to just over €17.3 million, up from just under €3.8 million in 2021." That is not just an amount; it is reliability. Reliability is the number one important issue for people. You stand at a bus stop and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There is a double movement of people with BusConnects, so the NTA counts those. That is fine. Of course, if you put more buses on in different places, more people will use them. I understand that. That does not mean that the service necessarily meets people's needs. There are different needs. If you look at cost per kilometre, which is in the briefing document, it is €6.28 per...