Results 22,241-22,260 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is Mr. McCarthy saying there is no real evidence that the scope section is determining sectors such as Deliveroo?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: From the perspective of somebody who is self-employed and employed, when that is mixed, an S stamp and an A stamp cannot be amalgamated for the purposes of pension. The employee will have to go with one or the other. If someone spends 20 years of their working life on an S stamp and 20 years on an A stamp, they really only have 20 years. There can be a considerable disadvantage in mixing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, the Comptroller and Auditor General is doing that work but would the Department do that work as well with regard to particular sectors?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: If something is not in the transport strategy, it will not get done, and I understand that. I will use DART+ West as a reasonably good example of something that does not make sense. Even if the project will be very disruptive in some locations, it will be brilliant to have the Maynooth line electrified. The railway order is with An Bord Pleanála. The NTA says the extension goes west...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I am just using it as an example. It is not in the strategy. Bringing the line to Maynooth was in the strategy but bringing it to Kilcock was not. Railway sheds are being built in Kilcock, but they are not being connected to the railway station in Kilcock, which is only 350 m away. It does not make sense. Will the Department look at how such anomalies can be dealt with, rather than...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. It does not make sense on any level.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: No. We should not be raising it with the NTA. We should be raising it with the Minister because it is on a policy change. The NTA will only tell us what the strategy is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I would like that, ideally. We should look for it as it would make an awful lot of sense. This will not be the only case where something like this happens, such as when it makes absolute sense to do something and everyone is in agreement it makes sense but the process does not allow it to happen. It makes financial sense to do it all at the same time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We are here less than a week after the end of the COP27 summit, which was held in the midst of a climate crisis that is growing worse by the minute. It was held to address the extinction-level threat to our planet. The summit will ultimately be marked by the absolute failure of ambition. There was no ramping up of climate mitigation measures, no progress on ending fossil fuel use and no...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Protection (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and-or the Commission for Regulation of Utilities granted ESB Networks permission to extract granular data from electric smart metres; if he will provide the process that persons can follow to opt-out of this practice; and if he will provide the point at which persons could avail of an opt-in. [56310/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Protection (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention or that of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities has been drawn to the lack of a comprehensive data protection impact assessment by ESB Networks regarding information that it gleans from smart metres (details supplied). [56311/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner permit holders disqualified in each year since 2016; the number who surrendered their learner permit to the RSA each year from 2016 following disqualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify his taxation policy for biofuels; and if biofuel value added tax and levies will be amended. [56437/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which local authority members may access the bike-to-work scheme in their capacity of elected representatives at local government level; and if he has engaged with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of their eligibility for the scheme. [56185/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 444. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 797 of 8 November 2022, if he will clarify the way in which the building referenced was identified and or the way in which the attention of his and his Department was drawn; if he and or his Department were offered use of the premises by the owner or by a third party; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 445. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of ECCE providers that have provided him with notice that they will cease with service provision since the introduction of core funding. [56711/22]