Results 21-40 of 10,806 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Surely the governing authority that was in place at the time were unaware of roughly how much housing are going in the area for.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Does Professor Kilcommins feel that in that context, you were all duped?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Was Professor Klcommins duped? You have must have felt duped. You must feel really angry about this.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Do you all feel you were duped on this? If one wanted to manipulate an organisation, one would give it misinformation and give it very little time to make decisions. This is the same kind of profile as what happened with Dunnes Stores. I would have thought that lesson would have made people ask what kind of student accommodation we are talking about here. I would have thought those kinds...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Is it not about the presentation? It is up to the governing authority to interrogate that presentation in detail. Were there people there who were capable of saying, “I want more information on this. I am not happy to sign off on something unless I see the A to Z of what we are putting our names to here”?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that we get copies of the minutes where this matter arose, whether it was at the governing authority or the audit and risk committee. I would like to see that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. Some way down the page it says that the main contractor has now set out its programme for completion of the construction and fit-out of the hospital by Q4 of 2024, followed by an operation and commissioning period of at least six months for Children's Health Ireland, CHI. I am not keen to just accept that. I would like to see it. We should request that we see the programme for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: In the meantime it might be worth writing to them to request updates on progress on the number of properties reached. If there was going to be duplication, there was something in the contract that allowed for them to be paid. I cannot remember what the terminology of it was but if Eircom, for example, were to do an area in the intervention area, it could be compensated for that. It would...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, there is €2.1 million in terms of delays. What timeframe does that cover? Do people remember that penalties were not applied as they got some leeway? I think that was during Covid. We need to ask them, starting from the commencement of the plan, what was promised, what was delivered and were targets set?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. We have to see it for ourselves. Were penalties applied or should penalties have been applied?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It is the intervention area. It is not that it is just difficult to get to but, very often, it is very marginal land so it is used for subsistence farming and so on. There is an understanding of that. I would have thought Covid would have changed the dynamics a little bit because people are moving to areas that would not have been favoured before as a result of working from home and so on....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but look at the demographics.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Not only that, they may well be older people. The demographic profile differs from cities and towns.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Retired people, for example, may be happy enough with what they have and may not want to have another cost. The Cathaoirleach is right. We had several hearings over a couple of weeks way back, and providers said they had a lot of people who are very happy with the service they are getting. The Cathaoirleach may well be right on that as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously we had our own report and made recommendations. Some of our recommendations mirror recommendations made in the two reports. The Mazars report found an additional €674,000 sloshing around. An updated of the legislation relating to the Comptroller and Auditor General is being examined by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No, generally. It would seem that something would not be put into the Broadcasting Act if it can go into legislation relating to the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We would only need a statutory instrument to add RTÉ.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Right, but that is something the Minister could sign.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There has been a lot of discussion about legislation later in the year. There may well be primary legislation needed for other things. In terms of the audit, that could be done. We certainly recommended that, it has been recommended by others and it has been recommended in this report. There is an acceptance all around that this should happen. That could happen now and if that happened...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Irish Water and RTÉ are substantial. The Comptroller and Auditor General now has responsibility for Irish Water.