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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Again, I would like to see a meeting with the Department of Foreign Affairs slotted in. I may be wrong but I thought we had agreed that. The issue of the investment in passport services that has been made and whether it was robust is one aspect but I know from previous experience there was quite a lot of useful information relating to embassies - whether the State owns or leases them and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is the committee agreeable to the Department of Foreign Affairs coming before us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is certainly worth engaging with the Department on the issue of embassies again.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: This is incredibly important legislation. We have long awaited it. It is not acceptable for it to be treated in this way. We also see the Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill being rushed through. This time of the year is quite dangerous for process. With a poor process, one often gets inadequate scrutiny and poor outcomes. This is not a way to handle legislation. Only a couple of...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I accept this legislation is required. However, I am not an advocate for rushing legislation through this House. Although this is probably an exception, we tend to see this prior to a recess. I hope we are not going to see a whole clatter of things rushed through without adequate scrutiny. The primary legislation should have made provision for court presenters when the strategy was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I listened to part of the Tánaiste's interview on Newstalk yesterday. I know he agrees with the President that the housing situation is now a disaster. However, he seems to have trouble figuring out who is responsible for that disaster. I will join some of the dots. The Tánaiste and Fine Gael have now been in government for 11 years. For most of that time, there has been a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will address one issue with regard to the number of people who own their own homes. Many of them have family, children and grandchildren, living with them. People are squeezed into box rooms with no hope. With regard to this idea of segregating and saying that people who own their own homes are grand, many people are worried about their children. This is not a one generation issue but a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We do not support policies that drive prices up.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will initiate an organisation wide review of Inland Fisheries Ireland. [30758/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports that are available for a bus service (details supplied) which had routes from Tallaght to the airport and from Maynooth to Dublin Airport; if such services are required to be licensed by the National Transport Authority; if so, if there are alternative plans to restore the service; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Grant Payments (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and or the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland provides grant-aid for the purchase of new hydrotreated vegetable oil powered vehicles. [30322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and or the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland will provide a schedule of the registrations of new electric vehicles purchased in Ireland by vehicle type in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the totality of grant aid provided for the purchase of these vehicles. [30323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 377. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which hydrotreated vegetable oil enabled vehicles are taxed; the VRT that they incur; and the import levies and so on. [29299/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 399. To ask the Minister for Finance the supporting legislation that facilitates the data exchange between the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Protection; and the number of instances in which the Department of Social Protection received data by the request of the Revenue Commissioners for the purposes of investigating potential social protection fraud from 2019 to date in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received notification from the Revenue Commissioners of the local property tax receipts following the revaluation; if so, if he will provide a breakdown by local authority; if he will provide a breakdown of the pre-adjustment income and the post-adjustment income by local authority; if there are any unexpected...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the method that he intends to use for the distribution of local property tax; the estimated shortfall in the equalisation fund which will now be met by the Exchequer; if he will provide a breakdown of the baselines that will be used for 2022, by local authority; the changes, if any, that are proposed in the self-fund...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Residency Permits (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 803. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the repatriation of a person (details supplied). [30320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a difference between school enrolment and school registration fees; the fees if any that a school may request; the guidance that has been issued to schools on this issue; the steps that can be taken in cases in which fees have been inappropriately requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Cases (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 1025. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of cases that have been taken against her Department in each year since 2016 in relation to special education provision; the cases that have been settled; the cases that are still outstanding; the amount in legal fees for each year since 2016; the location in which that is captured in her Department's accounts; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (14 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she intends to introduce legislation to formally wind up Caranua; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30316/22]