Results 1-20 of 994 for long speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...lever of withholding payment to more or less get the contractor to crack the whip and get this hospital completed? Aside from the financial part of it, we need this hospital and we have needed it for a long time. I do not understand why that, at least, would not be used in a robust way to get the contractor's attention to get this hospital completed.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: How long with this process take?

Business Support Package: Statements (23 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...The Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, spoke about premiums coming down in due course but people need to see them coming down now. It has been something that has been a bone of contention for a long time. There is no doubt that particular businesses, such as main street retail, cafés and so on and so forth, have been particularly struggling. It is really important we try to retain...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: How long is the contract for?

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...rather than just collecting it. It is about spending it appropriately to deliver public services. Many of our public services are poverty-stricken. In this service, there is a postcode lottery and long queues. The Minister of State knows that but it is not reflected in the response he has given us. If you can afford to pay, you can bring your child to a private dentist. However, many...

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: ...these questions because it feels like that is what happens. It takes an inordinate length of time to build and in locations that have a rapidly growing population the lead-in time is incredibly long. These are very big projects and the Department needs to do them right. There have been scenarios where projects have not been got right. How can a project that is urgent get stuck at...

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: ...schools being built do not have additional capacity. The upshot will be that prefabs will be required after a school is built because perhaps there is not another site available and it takes so long to get through the process. That would have been the case with Greystones, which I mentioned, as well as Naas. What is the thinking in respect of that approach?

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ..., it is simply not tenable that information collected by the RSA on collisions is not then provided to local authorities or TII. This nonsense has to be resolved and should not have gone on for so long. In the past, local authorities collected a wide variety of data relating to traffic collisions using a CT68 form. Everything from weather conditions to road conditions and so on was...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am not against extra bus stops. It needs to be convenient for people to get on buses. They cannot be expected to walk long distances to the stops.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...I would like it to go further, and the service to Kilcock. What forward planning is the NTA doing in relation to rolling stock? Is sufficient stock available? I understand that there is a long lead-in time. Is the NTA holding off until it sees whether the railway order comes through or is it planning ahead? Obviously, if there is going to be increased frequency, there is going to be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ..., Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure that the benefits of CIÉ 1951 scheme active members will be protected and maintained, and that 1951 scheme pensioners will be awarded their long-awaited pension increase without delay. [19950/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: For how long has each of the witnesses been in the IFI?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...to be for the active travel initiatives. They get a notification that they can apply for a grant and get it. Then they cannot find anyone to carry out the work - the procurement process is very long - and the money goes back to the Department. It would be useful to include that. Lead-in time is needed for any of these things.

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...about road safety and making it their responsibility. I am glad the Minister of State has said that the issue of road collision data will be dealt with. It is outrageous that it has gone on as long as it has. Accidents used to be mapped. There was a cost-benefit analysis and a response. We have gone backwards and we should not from the point of view of GDPR. Enforcement is a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 1543. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add amyloidosis as a condition to the schedule of long-term illnesses in the context of being eligible for public healthcare supports. [15003/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 1544. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add a medicine (details supplied) to the schedule of items covered by the long-term illness card. [15015/24]

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...the Department. It is not just an issue of communication. Rather, it is about a lack of any kind of cross-government plan, robust process or procurement controls that involve control of costs, and as long as we accept this from the Government, we will get more of the same. What we are looking at is a symptom of something that is much bigger, namely, the housing crisis and the crisis of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...being deployed. On the face of it, it seems this is an extraordinary use or misuse of resources. I am not satisfied. A hundred or so people are suspended. Some people are suspended for a very long time, which could be for justifiable reasons, but I am not convinced the three-month review is happening to the extent it should be if something like this can go on for the length of time...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: At the same time, the Garda would want to hold onto people. It takes a long time for people to be trained. The Garda wants a degree of stability. That kind of movement would not fill me with confidence about viability in the context of stability within stations, for example.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...the house, where the only viable vehicle access is located. The historic village access is not viable, according to the OPW, and there appears to be an unwilling seller. I understand a CPO involves a long process; however, if it is a question of Kildare County Council entering a CPO process, will it have the backing of the State, including financially, in doing so?