Results 28,061-28,080 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Museum Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 282. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department conceived the proposal to commission the delivery of a children’s museum/interactive science centre; and whether the now dissolved Forfás advised his Department on the ambition to deliver a children’s museum/interactive science centre (details supplied). [42694/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications currently with the emergency works grant scheme as of 15 October; and the value of those works within the applications, in tabular form. [43129/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I raised this issue earlier this year with the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath. He accepted that I made a fair point and undertook to have the issue re-examined. It relates to a judgment of the European Court of Justice in 2022 relating to public access to the register of beneficial ownership of companies. As Minister for Finance, he signed a statutory instrument, SI...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dates on which it is expected to admit the next three batches of Garda trainee recruits to stage one of the training; and the number of Garda trainees attested to date in 2024. [43132/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda trainee applicants from the 2024 recruitment campaign that have commenced stage one of their training; and the number from the same recruitment campaign that are currently at vetting stage. [43133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of food products seized by his officials at both Dublin Airport and Dublin Port, to date in 2024. [43130/24]

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae purports to speak for the people who went out and fought in 1916. My grandparents fought in 1916. My grandfather was interned. I do not think he would take the same view as the Deputy in respect of a lot of things.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The Deputy does not have to. I am just saying that a variety of people were involved and that it was in a different time and a different era. I do not believe the Deputy speaks for everyone who went out and fought in 1916. He should ponder that a little. When I started looking at this Bill and preparing for the debate this evening, I asked myself what was the point of doing so. The...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No matter how hateful it is.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I did not interrupt the Deputy. I just said, “No matter how hateful it is.”

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome all the witnesses. Mr. Gloster, in his opening statement, mentioned the number of staff in August 2024 and said that the "growth is 23.3% since December 2019". Has the WRC change from a 39-hour week to a 37.5-hour week been part of the calibration?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Has Mr. Gloster responded to the INMO with that information?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: On the 2,000 posts that were suppressed in advance of the embargo being lifted, Mr. Gloster gave us the figure for August 2024. Will he please give us the figure for December 2023?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I, too, picked up on the overtime payment and wonder how it happened. During a weekend night call-out in 2023, the employee was paid a rate of six hours' pay per patient for each of the four patients treated in a single period of 60 minutes. That same point was made by Deputy Kelly. It cost in excess of €2,800 for the call, which is an extraordinary amount. I can see the HSE's...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This situation happens when the consultant is called in to a hospital, I presume, to see patients and there is nobody else to cover that. This person would have come in and seen four patients, and that is essentially how it happened.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The second item I want to deal with - I hope I will be able to come back in on a few other matters later - relates to the settlement of the employment case. This cropped up in the C and AG's report. It jumped out to us. I understand that there is a mediated situation and that this constrains what can be said. The settlement comprised €1.37 million for a loss of potential private...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It is astronomical. It really is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: -----and it indicates that the power was all on one side here. I asked a question some time ago about the contractor that is building the national children's hospital and contracts over the past ten years for the same entity. There were seven of them, totalling €93 million, in different locations. What was the profile for looking at how they had worked out and whether they were on...