Results 141-160 of 10,706 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Is it a reusable amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Was there no business case? I would like to know a little more about that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would have thought Údarás na Gaeltachta would have had an outline done first and then tested it to see if there was likely to be interest in funding it before it spent €661,000, which is a very large sum of money. Údarás na Gaeltachta would have had to spend some money but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Are there lessons to be learned about taking a more robust approach in advance of taking on a project that did not end up progressing? If we start to look at projects that have started - the metro is a case in point, as is the interconnector - and where money has been spent in advance but it then does not proceed, some of the work is still usable and some is not because it will have to be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We should ask about the intended use.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: You often wonder is there a mindset that because it is public money, it is Monopoly money and that it is not real.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I am always intrigued by some of the ones on the list. What are they? Take "Public Trustee Account".
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. Thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I am happy to just note and publish this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Plus, it relates to individuals. More than one person in a house can claim it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, I thought the Chairman said three years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We might ask him to let us know when it arrives. Because it may arrive at a different time to when it is published.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. That was the one that I was talking about earlier. Why do we have to seek the HEA's permission to publish a letter?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay, so it was not to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would have thought University of Limerick should not have provided it to us if it did not have the authority to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The points I picked out from it were on governance. The letter states: Based on the evidence provided by UL, it would appear that the University actively progressed the Rhebogue acquisition in the absence of a formally approved property acquisitions policy. When we are talking to representatives from the University of Limerick, we might ask why they did not put that in place and why...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Absolutely. It is the same pattern here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would have thought the governing authority was utterly cracking the whip here. The letter further states: Based on the documentation provided by UL, the Contract amendment, approved by the President (17 May 2023) was not brought to the attention to the Executive Committee, Finance, Human Resources, Asset Management Committee (FHRAMC) or the GA, with the supplemental agreement between the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.