Results 1-20 of 152 for going forward speaker:Catherine Murphy

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

Catherine Murphy: I have a question on Dart+ West and Dart+ South West. I hope I have the names right but I am referring to the service to Hazelhatch, although 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...

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...children 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...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...on fire. It is a miracle that no one has been hurt or killed in the fires to date. There is a presumption that the buildings are empty but even if they are, neighbouring buildings, people in those buildings and those going in to fight the fires are being put at risk. There have to be consequences. It is essential that the Government does not make empty promises with respect to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I am constantly going on about it. On the second last page, under the review of the initiative, it states that the review is expected to be finalised soon and that any issues identified will be addressed as part of the terms and conditions of the next call. I ask that the Department forward us the review when it is completed. We may well look back and forward on this. The second issue...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1355. To ask the Minister for Health the status of podiatry services provided by the HSE in County Kildare; the status of the service going forward; and the number of persons on the waiting list for this service. [48754/23]

European Parliament Directive on Victims of Crime: Motion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...evening who will oppose adopting this directive, but I wish to record there is a time-sensitive element to opting in. This question must be decided by 26 October. When was it known that this was going to be required? I ask this because this is occurring at quite a late stage in the context of the deadline in this regard. The directive will mean that the State will incur costs. As...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion, which was put forward by the Rural Independent Group. Like most other Deputies, we get emails and calls from people on this issue on a regular basis and it is a huge source of frustration. People want to regularise themselves when it comes to driving on the public roads. Some people want to drive to work and more and more want to...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...before arriving in Ireland. One of them, a 26-year-old mother, said she felt betrayed by the person who trafficked her. She told the counsel she would never have left Nigeria if she knew she was going to end up working as a prostitute in Ireland. The trial heard that the women worked in various locations around the country, including Limerick, Cork, Galway, Castlebar, Navan, Athlone,...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...underpinned by trauma. Homelessness is one such adverse childhood experience. Anyone who thinks that if a child is homeless for six months or a year, that will be the cost is not reading the academic documents on what is going to happen. The Taoiseach made the point on numerous occasions that it is not the same families who are homeless all the time but, rather, it keeps rotating. In...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...support is put in place in the first instance but very little will soften the blow of the announcement that they have had in the past 24 hours. I thank People Before Profit, PBP, for bringing forward this Bill. If there is a time to make this change, it is now. We have almost full employment and we have an historically low rate of unemployment. Indeed, employers are struggling to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Jun 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...have been various inquiries. It may well be worth selecting some of those with a view to looking back and seeing what approach should be taken. I know that the Social Democrats, as a party, put forward a proposal back in 2015 that there should be a standing inquiry. I note that is one of the recommendations by Mr. Justice Brian Cregan with regard to the most recent commission of...

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: In the past year, the Minister of State has brought forward several items of legislation, much of it to do with issues where we have a gun to our heads, such as, for example, where fines are likely to be imposed or where we have not done things in a timely way. To the Minister of State's credit, he has been trying to clear the backlog. This also falls into that category in that there is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: There are a range of different issues here. There are different tables. There are some items on one table that are not on the other and I am confused about that. Obviously I need to go through it further but, for example, nowhere in Kildare is listed in any of those tables except the ones where the cost is associated. I do not know why that would be the case when they are in this table...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I was attending a committee meeting, so I suspect I am going to be repeating some of what was said before. The Bill is to replace the Control of Exports Act 2008 and provide a comprehensive and robust framework for regulating these goods. It is focused on military and human rights issues. The EU operates a system of export controls that forms part of a multilateral framework to support...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Mar 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors. What I am trying to establish is that there was a value and that Departments themselves used this. I am very determined not to let this go. This is the report that was done from that data set. The Department did not then end up having to employ expensive consultants because that information was available to it from a source. ...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...Ireland, to name just a few - rely on intelligence from outside the State. That is a massive amount of information that could be withheld from the independent examiner using this clause in the Bill. If the Government is serious about the need for an oversight body, it needs to allow it to access the information the independent examiner deems necessary, as is done in the North, the UK and...

National Archives Act 1986 (Section 1(2)(d)) Order 2023: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...and made available. I accept that they are working documents but access to them is important, even for historians. It always struck me as strange that one can, as Deputy Ó Snodaigh pointed out, go up to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and look at these records. The records held there come up as far as 1920. For some reason, there is secrecy here when it comes to...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...oversight or data protection there will be, and those matters are all critically important. The Minister without Portfolio, Deputy McEntee, has given us warning since last June that she intended to bring forward an amendment on Committee Stage on facial recognition technology. Here we are eight months later and the plan is still to introduce a new and controversial power to the Garda...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: When will Fianna Fáil learn the lessons of the crash that its policies led to more than a decade ago? I am really struggling to understand what the Government is at. The big innovation from the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when it comes to restoring public confidence in An Bord Pleanála is to revert to a discredited system of political appointments that was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...an interview at the weekend that caused a lot of anger. He said young people considering emigrating because of the extortionate housing costs could find the grass is always greener. He said if they go to a successful busy city, they will find the same high rents as here but the rents could be lower if they went to "a very rural area or a third or fourth tier city". Does the...