Results 361-380 of 10,577 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I raised some issues during the meeting earlier.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: There are several issues I want to raise on this. One of these is the midterm review of the National Development Plan 2021-2030. Can we go back to the Department and ask how far advanced the review is? Can we have a date for when it expects to have it completed? I ask because one of the projects is DART+ West, which goes as far as 300 m from the railway station in Kilcock. To get it from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We have had a number of them in Kildare. Some were successfully delivered and held up when they were under pressure with severe rain. I am familiar with the cost-benefit analysis that goes along with that. Sometimes these processes are about managing expectations and filtering money as it is available. In addition to asking about specific schemes, it might be worth asking how many are at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: A flood in somebody's home is every bit as bad as a fire and sometimes worse.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The schemes that have been carried out in my constituency impacted big centres of population. We are talking about towns here. I cannot commend highly enough the work that was done by the local authority in bringing the schemes to a point where it was almost designing the solution. Then the cost-benefit analysis is looked at in terms of prioritisation. Every time there is a big flood and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Of course it is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We should also ask whether there has been consideration of expanding in-house expertise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: In addition to the people the Cathaoirleach talked about, and I agree with those, we need to think out who it is we need to have in. It is important to note that both reports we are discussing were commissioned by RTÉ, some on foot of the engagement they had with this committee. Certainly, some of the transcripts of the committee's proceedings are included in the McCann FitzGerald...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. Is Anne O'Leary on the list? We have heard about the so-called combo meeting of the audit and risk committee, the board and a programme sub-committee. We particularly need to hear from the audit and risk committee and the people from the board who were hand-picked.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. It would be important to invite the former chair of the board, Moya Doherty. I remember raising this point when the show was under way and I looked for a business case because it was jaw-dropping stuff. We all know how big the convention centre is. All of us remember every seat in the convention centre. One would never want to be at a committee or Dáil meeting there ever again....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Ticket sales were far lower than that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: From the point of view of governance, there have been references to net figures and a briefing as opposed to a requirement for a decision. We will need to deal with all of those issues. We will require the current director general. We are not going to be able to name the people who were hand-picked from the executive and audit and risk committee because they are not named in the report....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: May I ask, given that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We received a letter from the chair of the RTÉ board volunteering to come before us. Does that give us a little more leeway for scheduling a date? There is no resistance to coming in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Who is on the list of people we have invited at this stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I know Deputy Dillon asked that we invite particular people but have we asked the finance director and the former finance head of the FAI?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We have asked both of those?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.