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

Catherine Murphy: It is as bad as anyway.

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

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

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.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Chair. I welcome the witnesses before the committee. I wish to start on the resourcing issue. For example, each time we ask the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, we are constantly told that the deployment of resources is entirely under the Garda Commissioner's remit. Obviously, we expect that this is done efficiently and effectively. Mr. Harris acknowledged that the...