Results 23,861-23,880 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: An engagement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine should be a subset of our consideration of the broader issue. We should be looking at the governance around the IHRB.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Is Deputy Burke referring to the IHRB?.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: This is an issue that has arisen previously. There is a real difficulty in figuring out who funds what and where the boundaries are. The last time we had a substantial engagement on this, we were quite shocked that there seemed to be a kind of blending of the two bodies, with some of the same people on both boards.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The issue is governance as much as it is about the severance payment. The latter is part of the same, broader issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Looking back at where there have been significant issues in the sports area, they have been very damaging to some of the sports involved. In the case of the Olympic Federation of Ireland and the FAI, there were significant governance failures in both instances. The horse racing industry is a very sizeable one. It weakens that industry if its governance is not properly organised, with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It is the governance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: If the majority wants to do that, that will be the decision.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I would be happy to opt for the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board if we could have the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that we bring in the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board in the autumn because of the accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: It may well be that we may need to look at it at some point. Under the definition of value for money, it is not about what one spends, but the services one gets. Every one of us knows that some services are really threadbare. I have never met a parent with a child with special needs who was not an advocate with a big file under their arms. They are constantly just battering down doors to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: They said that they were actually spending all of the time doing the assessments of need, because there was a legal imperative. However, they were not getting to deliver the services as a consequence of that. That is really an alarm bell. If one has an assessment of need and then one does not have any follow-up regarding occupational, speech and language or behavioural therapy, or whatever...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: If we are having the HSE in later in the year, we need to look at this as a unique piece. We maybe need to look at where there is a legal imperative to do something, if there is a follow-through on that, are there resources to do that, and how the money is spent.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: There is a compounding of reputational damage here. We saw that last week. I do not think it is in our interests to let that go.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: There is another issue with regard to the unacceptable engagement with this committee. If we tolerate that, it will invite others to treat the committee with the same kind of disrespect and evasiveness we saw last week. This is not the first time the University of Limerick has been in. In fact, the university sector was the most prominent sector in the work of the previous Committee of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (16 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 126. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the amounts paid to three independent experts by a commission (details supplied) since it was formed, to date, including the amount by year and expert name. [22795/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 194. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he, his officials and-or the Defence Forces have engaged with organisers of an event (details supplied) in respect of the use of Baldonnel for its 2023 air display; if permission to use Baldonnel has been granted in that regard; the amount raised by the Defence Forces in respect of fees for use of its infrastructure since 2005 by foreign...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which upgrade works will commence on the forecourt area of Bray train station; and if the forecourt will contain additional secure cycle storage, charging points and set-down areas for public transport [22827/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in respect of retrofitting and restoration of Bray train station; the proposed use of the area being worked on at present; the plans to establish retail and hospitality outlets on the site; and if the public toilets in the station will be retrofitted to modern standards in line with building regulations and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (16 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 18 April 2023, if he has made a submission or if his officials have made a submission; and if he will attend public consultations in Northern Ireland in respect of progressing the A5 project. [23174/23]