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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: The one thing we do not want is to find out after the meeting that there is something else, so it is better for me to ask the question here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: In relation to the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, there is a Garda case. I think it goes back to when it was a VEC and before it was an ETB.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. Well, it is still ongoing. I am looking at the material level of non-compliance with procurement rules and it is bog-standard stuff. It relates to recruitment agencies, school trips, catering, the adventure centre, cleaning services, woodworking and hardware supplies. I would have thought that real energy would have been put into making sure that issues do not turn up when there are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. If an issue is raised on either side of the year we are looking at, does that preclude us from having an entity like that before the committee? I do not think it would be enough on its own. I think we would have to have a few of them in. Yet, it was very patchy the last time a group of them were before the committee. There were very good examples of some poor practice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Some of it was a carryover from how they were amalgamated and how the systems were not really talking to each other. An Garda Síochána is involved in two specific cases. Once the gardaí are involved are we precluded from looking at them in their totality or just from looking at those areas?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. In the future, I might raise us having a group before the committee again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I know, yes.
- 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: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: They do not even require the councillors to approve this now. It is accepted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: No. I agree with a lot of what the Cathaoirleach has said and I do not see where there would be a delay. Has that exemption made any difference at all or are the other blockages still there in terms of getting the financial permission to go ahead with projects? I think that is where the blockage is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would ask that we ask the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: How many projects have commenced on foot of the exemption?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The big selling point for Irish Water was there was going to be one organisation to deal with, rather than all the local authorities. I thought that was daft because the pipes are not located in one place, but all over the country, as are the treatment systems and so on. Irish Water is an issue for all our constituency offices. There is another area in relation to taking estates in charge...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: There would be loads in our area.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: I thank the Cathaoirleach. The Department has provide some figures on people in temporary protection. These figures obviously relate to Ukraine and stood at 68,000 in 2022 and 32,000 in 2023. We have heard various figures regarding the number of people from Ukraine who are here at the moment. Just because 104,000 people have been given that protection does not mean that this is the number...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Do we have any idea, then, of the number that are here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: It is a matter for the Department of Social Protection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: The Taoiseach has stated on a number of occasions that 80,000 are here. Today is an unfortunate anniversary because it marks the beginning of the third year of this war. Most people had an expectation when it happened that it would be short-lived but, unfortunately, that has not proved to be the case. From what she has said, Ms McPhillips does not accept the charge we repeatedly hear...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to the Prison Service. I was intrigued to hear about the electronic transfer of cash. Some €16 million was electronically transferred into prisoners’ accounts. Is there a limit on the amount of money a prisoner can receive?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: That is absolutely fine and I do not have an issue with that. It is just that the amount jumped out at me.