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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, it was offered for sale first to the OPW which went to the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform which spent six months navel gazing and no decision was made.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We had them before the committee in the past. My understanding is that the figure was around €5 million. It was sold for perhaps €1 million more. I cannot be sure of the amount. It was a closed bidding process. The problem is that this asset now cannot be enjoyed in the first instance and, given the money that has gone into it, it was very shortsighted not to have purchased...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yesterday, or the day before yesterday, a portion of it went up for sale.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The problem is that access in is important. To even get a lease it would be important to get access but that requires a willing partner and the new owner is not a willing partner. My point is that we often look at value for money as things, that is, on what we spend and what we get for it. Not spending the amount of money to buy it is almost criminal. It is outrageous, let us put it that...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Most certainly, yes.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: If we just flag that the matter has come up.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: That is going to be flagged for them.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is certainly a matter that several of us have an interest in pursuing.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Again, can we ask the OPW in advance of coming in about the business case and the value-for-money report? Please ask them to provide that in advance.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: And how that has changed, given the one that is out in Sandyford.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I raise another thing we should look for. We should write to the OPW to ask it if a capacity review has been conducted within the past ten years or so and if so, whether a report was produced. If it was, the OPW should provide the committee with it.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: When it comes to the OPW, I do not know what the position is. There is a relatively new chair. Many of the things that happened did so under his predecessor. Can we ask the previous chair to be included in the invitation?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Can we ask him then?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, but we will ask anyway on that basis.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I wish to refer to correspondence that came in to Deputy Pa Daly's office. It came from an Irishman who is married to a man who does not have Irish citizenship. His husband had exceeded the wait time considerably and he was in contact with a number of others who were in the same situation. Many people received emails from the Department of Justice stating that there was a delay but that...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
James Browne: I acknowledge that in the past there were significant delays in processing citizenship applications. What the Minister, the officials in the Department and I have done to streamline matters and introduce a new processing system with the online application form and e-vetting has led to a significant change in the processing time relating to citizenship applications. I am confident that by...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: That is very positive, and it should be the aim. It is a matter of making sure it happens. Regarding workflows in the Department, there have been backlogs in respect of a number of immigration permissions. The Minister of State referred to citizenship applications and the processing of asylum applications. The numbers have risen in all these areas. I suppose only so much can be done...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
James Browne: Significant work is being done in the Department to ensure that all applications, be they in respect of citizenship, asylum or whatever, are dealt with in a speedy and timely fashion. It is acknowledged that significant work needed to be done in this area. This work is being carried out.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 Sep 2024)
Policing Authority