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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: He got that role to begin with at the age of 16.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have a quick question. It is not on this but on something we talked about this morning, the EU funds that are not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Who audits those?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: They have some oversight.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Which one is it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It had to do with Castletown. I doubt we will be given the legal advice but we did ask for some additional information last week. That is probably the extent of what we will get. There is one item of note. What instruction was given to OPW valuers with regard to Castletown?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I teased it out a little bit. I believe the Department agreed to give us the information I was looking for but it is not as clear-cut as I thought it was. I am happy to wait to see what it sends us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Did I not flag the correspondence regarding Tusla and Children's Health Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will be very brief. We are all aware of the money that was allocated for a specific purpose and was then not spent on that purpose. It would be worth our while to write to CHI to ask how that decision was made.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will raise a second issue very quickly. Tusla came back to us with the number of children and young people reported missing. A footnote states that they were in non-statutory, non-regulated and non-procured placements. We understand that non-statutory means that it was not a State agency. It jumps out at me that these placements were non-regulated and non-procured. How can a placement...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I know that that is happening. It is just-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: If we are adding another meeting to that list, Children's Health Ireland is one that comes to mind. CHI will also have responsibility for the national paediatric hospital and there are a few issues there that would be worth discussing with it. How money is allocated and spent is certainly an area I would like to explore further with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. I am very anxious that we do not push Uisce Éireann down much further because the amount of money involved is gigantic.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: That is fine.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to Second Stage of the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024 taken on Thursday, 4 July 2024. On the question, "That the Bill be now read a Second Time", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2) that division must be taken now.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Dáil divided: Tá, 93; Níl, 45; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Tá Ivana Bacik, Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Holly Cairns, Dara Calleary, Seán Canney, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Joan Collins, Niall Collins, Catherine Connolly, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Barry Cowen, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon,...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Question declared carried.