Results 201-220 of 10,622 for in 'Committee meetings' speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Let me return to the family resource centre programme. There are 121 centres around the country and €21 million was spent on them in 2022. If there is not a family resource centre in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. There is no centre in my constituency. Does that mean you do not get the services at all?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: That is the preventative piece. The preventative piece may require an investment but there is a big return on it-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: -----when you examine the cost–benefit outcome by comparison with the high-end investment required when failure happens.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We are asked every five years to fill out a census form. There was an exception during the Covid period, which pushed us back a year. I always encourage people to do so. We are told through an elaborate advertising campaign on each occasion that the forms need to be filled out so that services can be provided and demographic shifts and the like can be tracked, yet there is very little...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I want to raise Inland Fisheries Ireland. From the public's point of view, it went well under the radar. When IFI appeared before the committee last year we were in the middle of the RTÉ controversy. RTÉ ended up being on the news instead of Inland Fisheries Ireland. There were significant issues with it. Did the Comptroller and Auditor General have sight of the reviews that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I remember something about vehicles and insurance, which was quite a significant issue. Does that relate to the last item or is that something a review is being done on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: As they will be in next week, it is to have a sense of what might be available.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: That will be helpful.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: What is the purpose of having an inhouse legal team that is separate and governed by its own set of rules, and then spending a lot of money on legal fees outside the organisation? The particular firm is a well known and expensive law firm. You are also asking the same people to do the opposite side of the same issue. What is the purpose of the inhouse legal team?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is. I understand there can be things that come from left field with regard to a particular discipline, or somebody with particular expertise on an issue. However, this does not seem to fall into that category. It may well be that they required outside legal advice so it would carry a different authority because it came from outside RTÉ. I am looking at it from the point of view of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: However, one of the letters states that, "We can confirm that we advised RTÉ in respect of these arrangements". That obviously refers to severance arrangements for former executives.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It might not in this case but I can generally understand that. RTÉ is asking the same firm that did it. I think they should be watching the pennies and the euro.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Could we get the 2015 report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I presume it will be the Accounting Officer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: No. It might not be.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: That is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to discuss BusConnects.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: BusConnects is not exclusive to the city and county of Dublin.