Results 28,101-28,120 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

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

Catherine Murphy: In the short time I have left, I will focus on one matter. We make recommendations to the HSE when we compile a report. One of those recommendations was that the reports from internal audits be published on the executive's website. Will the HSE be doing that? Does it see the internal audits and the reports from audits relating to the more than 60% of other publicly funded health agencies?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This is to do with the train traffic management system. Originally, the estimate was for €148 million. The range could now be somewhere between €175 million and €205 million, with the project estimated to come in at approximately €188 million, which is obviously a substantial difference. I do not doubt that the system is needed, but can we write to the NTA to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We are being told in this correspondence that the current status of the development is commercially sensitive and the focus of the project is being reviewed. Essentially, the project has stopped. We should write to the Irish Strategic Investment Fund to get a status update. This is a non-answer. I am not satisfied with a non-answer. We need a status update. Approximately €24...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We have not had it before the committee since its accounts were published.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: These are the oldest accounts that are outstanding.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This is in terms of the largest entities. This is all the more reason. I presume the number of claims in dispute has had a bearing on the hold up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This is absolutely the reason this committee exists. It is the one that is most outstanding. We may well have delayed having it before the committee so that we would have the 2022 accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I completely agree that we should insist it come before the committee. Whether or not we are here does not matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I would, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It strikes me that if this does not happen, it will be 2025 before the committee will deal with a set of accounts from 2022. That is madness.

Family Courts Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am around long enough to remember when courthouses were the responsibility of local authorities, which did not really want them. Courthouses were run down because of the lack of finance and resources going into them. There are many things we could vote against or criticise but this is constructive and positive. It is important to separate out family courts. This is a very good start....

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We will also be supporting this motion. Having an extradition treaty with the UAE is desirable. It is galling to see individuals who have wreaked havoc living in comfort in another jurisdiction and also operating without any sanction. These are people who in some cases are household names. However, we must remember that individual cases do not make good law. That has often been said,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We did our best to try to have the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children’s Health Ireland into the public accounts committee before this Dáil was dissolved. They offered times that, clearly, if there was going to be a pre-Christmas election, would have fallen within the time the election was being held. We need to know when this hospital we be complete. We...

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: As this will be my last time to speak in the Dáil, I take the opportunity to thank the people of Kildare North who have afforded me the privilege to represent them over many years. I also thank my supporters and particularly those who have worked with me, my parliamentary assistant, Aaron McAllorum, and my constituency manager, Fionnuala Killeen. I thank the staff of the Houses for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (6 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 18 September 2024, if he will provide a further update on the same query; and the rationale in respect of the delay in the OPW responding in full to Parliamentary Questions and freedom of information requests. [45343/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Equipment (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 63. To ask the Taoiseach the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Equipment (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44861/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Equipment (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44859/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 152. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule in respect of the number of instances in which the military intelligence branch has placed tracking devices on vehicles as part of investigations; whether these trackers left the jurisdiction, and on how many occasions per tracker, in the past ten years to date; the jurisdictions in which the tracker visited;...