Results 481-500 of 1,041,858 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Matt Carthy OR speaker:Verona Murphy)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: No, my question was where would it leave Uisce Éireann. How many staff does Mr. Gleeson expect to come over from the county council?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Is it known how many employees are in the sector over there, as we will call it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Okay. If Uisce Éireann got them all, then, it would have a problem. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: In effect, then, does that mean the other employees in the councils will be left without a job or will they be redeployed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Only 200 or 300 of 2,300 can do so, however. Is that what was said?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Yes, I appreciate that point and I think it has been well threshed out. Obviously, it is a work placement issue from that perspective. I assume that Uisce Éireann is undertaking that the workers will be no worse off if they do go over to Uisce Éireann and all that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Well, I can too, but my sympathies lie with ensuring that Irish Water or Uisce Éireann keeps up-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: -----and that we do not go backwards. The real question that I was coming to was does Uisce Éireann have a critical skills need and has the organisation been placed on the critical skills list for recruitment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Does Mr. Gleeson have an issue with it from that perspective? Should Uisce Éireann be making that application in advance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Is Irish Water getting a response?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: This is Uisce Éireann's first year here. It is my fourth or fifth and, in general, what we hear about is recruitment and retention. Uisce Éireann does not want to move into that. It took certain sectors years to even get accepted onto the critical skills list. That is the issue that must be addressed now so that we do not have a situation whereby there are resources but not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Ramsgrange is not a group scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: No. It was just that we did not have one before.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: They are all private sewerage systems.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: The water comes from Uisce Éireann.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: We are talking about waste.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: But that is what we are talking about. It is not the water supply.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: That is correct. There is no waste management system.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: We have access to one down the road. Funding has been granted but we have not started the process.