Results 24,601-24,620 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: An Garda Síochána (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of stables currently in use in the Garda mounted unit; and if there are any stables not being used but are available to be used in the Garda mounted unit. [40119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 769. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full-year cost to recruit one additional whole-time equivalent, WTE, deputy chief analyst and one additional WTE chief analyst for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40120/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Customs and Excise (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 791. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of counterfeit veterinary prescription drugs and animal growth hormones seized by customs officials at privately owned and State airports and ports of entry and exit that were passed to his Department for examination; and if he will provide the information in tabular form, by location, item and value, for the years 2019,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 963. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time multiple sclerosis, MS, nurse specialists employed by the HSE in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the locations in which these MS nurses are located, in tabular form. [40123/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 964. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE optometrists and orthoptists based in CHI Crumlin in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40124/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 965. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant vascular surgeons at St. Vincent's University Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40125/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 966. To ask the Minister for Health the number of brain scans carried out at Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40126/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1039. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the Dental Act 1985; if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40695/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1040. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to empower the Dental Council to inspect dental practices, to be given authority to regulate dental practices which are not owned by dentists, and to investigate allegations of dental care being provided by persons who are not registered dental practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40696/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1041. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out a schedule of engagements that his Department has with the Dental Council on the matter outlined in the RTÉ Primetime investigates programme of 7 September 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40697/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Projects (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1097. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of applications received by municipal districts in Wicklow County Council’s local authorities under the 2023 allocation; if she will provide a breakdown, by the library branch that was allocated funding and amount, in the local authority under the libraries capital programme in 2023; if she...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Budgets (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1098. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how much of the budget allocated towards the community centres investment fund has been spent to date. [40117/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (21 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will devise some form of insurance support for people who own defective apartment blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40874/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (21 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department obstructed the OPW from purchasing lands at Castletown House in 2021; if so, if he will outline the rationale for same; if the OPW presented a business case to his Department in respect of its ambition and/or intention to purchase the lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40873/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: On the same subject, some of these services will collapse. There is no obvious mechanism to resolve this because the State is the funder. As the Taoiseach said, if the section 39 bodies did not exist the State would have to provide the services directly. The problem is that if the State does not come back to the table, there is nothing to negotiate. We cannot talk about the industrial...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I too want to commend the joint task force. I think it was an exemplary piece of work. Obviously, resources are a significant issue. I want to raise the issue of school transport. When will the review be published? This comes up every year, but I do not believe I have seen a year worse than this one. There are special needs children without school transport services. We are seeing...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: I understand this is a technical Bill. It provides for the dissolution of Ervia, the transfer of its functions, assets, records and staff to Gas Networks Ireland. I understand that. The first thing stated in the explanatory memorandum is: In 2018 the Government decided that Irish Water (Uisce Eireann) should be separated from Ervia and made into a standalone entity. On 20 October 2020...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (26 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 94. To ask the Taoiseach if he will clarify a matter (details supplied). [40957/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Information and Communications Technology (26 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the National Cyber Security Centre has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within the NCSC; if any section of the NCSC currently makes use of A.I.; if he can outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if NCSC has consulted with any consultancy firms...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of exemptions in respect of local property tax, and the number of deferrals sought and granted in respect of local property tax, in 2022 and to date in 2023; the value of LPT forgone as a consequence; and if he will provide the information in tabular form. [40956/23]