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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I have a few follow-up questions for her. Will that programme be available on a part-time basis? Will it be open to graduates or mature students? What are the criteria for eligibility? It would be useful to get those. It is a welcome development but I would like to get some extra information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Is there a proactive or a reactive approach? For example, does the NCSC have any role in auditing risks in various Departments and does it follow up on issues that are identified? We are thinking about mitigating risks so we are taking a preventative approach rather than a reactive approach when something happens. I know there are attacks all of the time but, in practical terms, I would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: With regard to carrier liability, which is dealt with on page 6, how would this be enforced outside our own jurisdiction? Are things identified in this regard? Is draft legislation being prepared and is there a timeline for that? That is obviously for the Department. It would be useful for us to ask to be kept informed on the progress.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I want to ask about the process of doing that. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General need to be informed who the Accounting Officer is?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Local authorities are being grant-aided to work and then the money is sometimes returned. They are notified but they do not get the time to do it. The multi-annual budgeting aspect is probably the key issue in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It tends to be for the active travel initiatives. They get a notification that they can apply for a grant and get it. Then they cannot find anyone to carry out the work - the procurement process is very long - and the money goes back to the Department. It would be useful to include that. Lead-in time is needed for any of these things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: There is an unequal distribution of staff resources across the country. Some of that is for historical reasons. As the population grows, the staff component does not grow and there is an impediment to growing it by virtue of the fact that artificial baselines are included in local government funding, especially as it relates to local property tax. Doing it in house is just not an option in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, but very often if you are going to make an application - I accept the point that an engineer has to be appointed and that it is difficult to recruit them - it may be that it has to happen via a regional office which would have expertise that can be drawn on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: There are issues. We should put it on that list. Local authorities are not even applying when they have viable projects because they cannot spend the money within the timeframe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: One of the matters we engaged with the OPW on before was the number of vacant properties it had. It would be useful to return to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Are any special reports due in the upcoming period?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Why is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: When are the accounts of Irish Water due?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: If they are cleared, will they be published then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It would be optimistic to think we would deal with them on this side of the recess.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is a very sizeable amount of money and I would like to see them here.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I thank Senator Flynn. She is a force of nature. She made sure we were all very well aware of this meeting happening and encouraged us all to attend. I am delighted to be here. I represent the Social Democrats in the Kildare North constituency. There is a cliché, and clichés serve a purpose, that you cannot be what you cannot see. The fact that Senator Flynn is here is...