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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: On the July or summer provision, the children of St. Raphael’s will not be able to go to summer camps. The application was made for July provision and it was refused because the minimum is two weeks and they could only provide a week. Surely something is better than nothing. It seems extraordinary that the Department states it is going after schools to try to get more schools...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: But the Department refused.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I do accept it was for a month and I can understand why. How much of the increase in spending in 2022 on school buildings was due to the cost of inflation or to accelerated construction? Was it almost exclusively inflation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Every year where I live there is a scrap for school places. Sometimes schools are asked to accommodate additional students and prefabs can be put in at fairly short notice for them. Presumably there is some budget for this every year. Will the witnesses give us an indication of this particular aspect where each year the Department must provide at a late stage for the accommodation of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: It has been said that Wicklow and Kildare are in a red zone. What other counties are in this red zone?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Where are the flashpoints?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can I ask a quick question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: We know Caranua was a finite organisation and it has completed its work. There are, however, still a small number of outstanding clients. There is one particular gentleman in Limerick who had a builder walk out of the site and it has been a building site for the past few years. Are there others like that? When do the witnesses expect to have in place the legislation needed to wind Caranua...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Is that the only case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I thank the Cathaoirleach. Apologies, I could not be here earlier. It is obvious that one cannot compartmentalise reputational damage. The reputational damage goes across the spectrum. I would have thought that would be something that the University of Limerick, in particular, would be conscious of given that this is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened. In fact,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Was Professor Kilcommins conscious that information had not gone back to the governing authority?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: There is legal advice and then there are obviously one's own concerns. Professor Kilcommins had concerns.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are giving us assurances that this is not going to happen again and are asking us to take them at face value. It is very difficult for us to take anything at face value from University of Limerick given that this is not the first occasion on which this has happened. There may well be different personnel involved, but we need to see evidence. We need to see evidence of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I know this pre-dated the position Professor Laffan currently holds. Presumably, there would have been a handover when she assumed that position and she would have been aware of the Dunnes Stores issue. Obviously, it has just been confirmed that the Rhebogue issue would have been known in advance of Professor Laffan taking up her position. Did she ask questions with regard to Dunnes Stores...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: No, I am not asking about that. I mean before Professor Laffan took up the role. She has a reputation - everybody else here has a reputation - and she would want to make sure her reputation is not damaged. Surely, when she was taking up the role of chancellor, she would have asked about things that have the potential to do reputational damage to the university and to her. Did she have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Presumably, it would have been brought to the attention of the previous chancellor.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I am sorry; we have just been told that UL was preparing for the previous meeting of the Committee of Public Account last year and Professor Laffan became aware of it at that stage. That is the timeline we are talking about. We had the former chancellor sitting exactly where Professor Laffan is sitting last year. She must have been aware of Rhebogue at that stage. Surely, Professor Laffan...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: She did not ask whether there was anything else.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: No, look, I will ask-----