Results 381-400 of 10,706 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Could there be one prisoner getting a lot of money?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Yes, and this maintains a degree of control.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Ms McPhillips gave us information on Dublin Airport. We have previously heard about people arriving in this country via Northern Ireland. How does the Department manage or know the number arriving? Is it because people claim asylum?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: So that is how the Department knows?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Does Ms McPhillips have the numbers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: And from the other airports as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: If we could have that information-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: -----even in a note afterwards, that would be appreciated. What happens in the case of a person who does not accept direct provision and does not receive any State assistance? Presumably, that is people who have family who are already here. Does that include the €38 for an adult? Do these people receive no support whatsoever? Does the Secretary General know the numbers involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: So that is the Department of Social Protection again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Does the Department of Justice cross-reference with them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Officials from GSOC appeared before us a couple of weeks ago. They told us that, in other jurisdictions, the general caseload is ten cases per investigator and GSOC now has 20 cases per investigator, which is considerably lower than the much higher caseload before this. Obviously there has been an increase in the budget and staffing for GSOC, and we went through that with them. Is there...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Hopefully, so that we reach the international norm and I understand that the Department has to build up to that. I was intrigued by the amount for the highest individual payment for overtime in the Prison Service in 2022. One individual received an overtime payment of €77,000. How does that comply with the EU working time directive? Is the payment a complete outlier? What is the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: It is an incredible amount - €77,000 in overtime.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: The prisons are at capacity and there are new extensions. What is the average cost of keeping someone in prison for a year? Does the Department have the capital budget to complete those projects so as there are sufficient places for people without having very significant overcrowding, which leads to other issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: There is a vetting process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Obviously, there was a significant investment in staffing in the international protection area. It is self-evident that there is an increase in the processing times. There is going to be an investment in a major modernisation programme across the entire immigration function. Is that going to be exclusively for the Department of Justice or is it going to integrate with the Department of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can I stop Mr. Dixon there? I wish we did not use the word "customer". Can we use "client" or some other word? A customer is someone who goes into a shop.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Who is going to be talking to whom? Who is going to see what? Very often there are silos. Is this going to get rid of those silos? Does it involve the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Social Protection or is it just the asylum process around the individual and where their paperwork is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: Will they be used in this modernisation system?