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- 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...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I need a concise response.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can the force safely police when it is under resourced?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: The Commissioner has talked about the pipeline but really we should look at the net numbers. Obviously a large number of people are exiting and, in fact, exiting mid-career from the Garda. Taking account of the difference between the number of new recruits and the number who have left, the net increase between 2020 and 2023 was just 300 people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: On the recruitment process, An Garda Síochána has moved away from using the Public Appointments Service and now uses a UK firm, which is obviously non-EU, to spearhead the recruitment drive. What does the firm do and how did the change come about? I understand that the initiative is costing approximately €4 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I understand that a UK firm is now used to recruit, rather than the Public Appointments Service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Please keep the reply short.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can I presume that was agreed at ministerial level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: On the use of overtime, between 2020 and 2023 almost half a billion euro was used on overtime. There are also additional payments for travel and subsistence. For people who are doing overtime, such as those who are bussed in from outside of Dublin to Dublin for overtime or for special events and things like that, for example, there are probably additional amounts of travel and subsistence....