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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We have indicated that the tribunal will be located in Smithfield. There were issues to discuss regarding legal representation, costs and so on. That is all sorted. I anticipate the commencement order being signed within the next fortnight. My officials will bring the commencement order for me to sign. It is normally the case that, once we appoint a chairperson, that chairperson...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (16 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Tánaiste has gone back a little bit. What happened here, the length of time and the whole lot, was simply unacceptable. It took a documentary to spur the Government into action but that is now history. At this point, have the administrative staff been appointed? Is a full team now in place? When will the statutory instrument be signed? Will it be signed today or tomorrow? Are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said in my previous reply, I expect to sign that commencement order within a fortnight, if not sooner. A tribunal has to do a lot of preparatory work before hearings are announced. That is normal and allows for people to make submissions and so forth. I do not anticipate any difference from the legal representation parties have had in previous tribunals of inquiry. A lot of progress...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Griffin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will further review the pandemic recognition payment for Defence Forces personnel who worked in test centres to make sure all deserving individuals received the payment, given that some did not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22112/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Griffin: This question relates to Defence Forces personnel who worked in Covid testing and vaccination centres during the pandemic. Many of these people worked in these centres for 12 to 16 months and provided a very valuable resource but they have not been considered for the pandemic recognition payment. This is wrong. Can the matter be reviewed? Some specific personnel did great work but did not...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. As he will know, in January 2022, the Government announced a Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment for front-line public sector healthcare workers to recognise their unique role during the pandemic. At Government level, the Department of Health has primary policy responsibility for this initiative, having received the consent of the Department of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Perhaps, on foot of this question, the Tánaiste might initiate a review. My understanding is that all members were initially on lists created by their units but that those lists were not fully accepted at a higher level. Apparently, the criteria specified that only those military personnel who were physically administering vaccines or taking swabs would ultimately receive the payment....
- 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: The witnesses are welcome. I start by asking about the Mercy Convent in Naas, County Kildare. The school build started in 2017, the year the current sixth class started school, and the school will not be complete for another two years. Is that the longest there has been? The school has no PE hall as a consequence of being accommodated in prefabs. There is somewhere in the region 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: Is it the only one?
- 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: How rare?
- 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: Will Mr. Loftus give us numbers or an example?
- 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 understand that. I am looking for the ones that do not. That is what we are here for.
- 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: Will Mr. Loftus give us a note on that?
- 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 it usual for security-----
- 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 understand that. Windows on-site had to be replaced because they were left out in the weather. It had to be sealed. It has been quite a saga and the ones who have paid the biggest price are the children. It must be the most expensive school when you take on board that prefabs and security have had to be paid for. Is security normally included in the contract, or is it an exceptional...
- 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: So, it is unusual.
- 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 will stop Mr. Loftus there because I have a number of questions.
- 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 have a number of questions I want to ask, and I have little time. Will Mr. Loftus provide the committee with a note of situations where security is paid for, separate from it being included in the contract? We can look at that then. The Department said it plans years out. County Kildare is growing rapidly and gained 25,000 people between the two most recent censuses. We have...
- 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: What about concessionaries?