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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Archives (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I have had the benefit of a tour of the National Archives and I have also visited the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, which was built recently. There is a world of difference between them as one is a purpose-built national archive. Some National Archives records are stored off site, some as far away as Portlaoise, which adds to the inefficiency of retrieving documents. When this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Archives (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Regarding the allocation on the digital side, is it intended to be used to develop a standard, or is it for the purpose of carrying out specific work? If the latter, will the Minister indicate whether the particular project has been identified at this stage?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Archives (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 45. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to what extent an all-Island approach is being adopted to the ongoing digitisation of records at the National Archives, in collaboration with the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland; to what extent the National Archives is co-operating with the United Kingdom National Archives in this regard; and if she will make a statement...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Archives (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: In some ways, this follows on from my previous question about the record management policy. There is a high level of co-operation between the cultural institutions, North and South. There is already a UK standard that they are working to in Northern Ireland. It is important that we do not end up with duel standards which would make it much more difficult for such a level of co-operation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Archives (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We do not want to end up with a collection of different standards and a long lead time where various Government Departments are operating to different standards and there must be an expensive retrofit. We could easily lose records that were generated on different digital platforms or early generation computer systems, for example, records on floppy disks. It will be difficult and expensive...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Archives (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister has outlined shared heritage and the need for it. We will be accessing information that is stored in different locations and it is a very sustainable approach, whereby people will not have to go and physically retrieve material from an archive. The more of this that can happen, the better and the more accessible it will be. I would like to mention before I finish that I had...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I also express my revulsion at what I saw last night on the "RTE Investigates" unit programme. While it was sickening, I cannot honestly say I am hugely surprised. The culture of non-compliance and the absence of effective enforcement ensures an utter lack of transparency in corporate and political life. It is a system that the public instinctively mistrusts. We have had the banking...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Taoiseach listed much legislation, but what we have is a fragmented response to enforcement. It is fairly toothless and this keeps on happening. The Moriarty and Mahon tribunals combined cost more than €200 million, and at the same time they did not flag a response or produce an organisation that is capable of dealing with it. The official line on the Moriarty tribunal is that...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: It is one thing to have legislation, but we need an agency with teeth that can operate across sectors and have a cross-sectoral response. This is what we propose. Will the Taoiseach accept the proposal this evening? Given that tomorrow is international anti-corruption day, the revelations last night on RTE and the ongoing unsatisfactory arrangement we have, the response to the proposal we...

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Shortall, Deputy McGrath and so on. We have sent in a list. I propose to take ten minutes.

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move:That Dáil Éireann:recognises that corruption in public and commercial life represents a great threat to the democratic functioning of the State; finds that culturally ingrained concepts of patronage, clientelism and favouritism have pervaded political institutions and have led to serious failures in corporate governance, particularly where inappropriate links between...

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We did not even know the programme would be on when we tabled the motion.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce urgent measures to conserve the Golden Eagle population which has fallen to a critically low level; if she has discussed eliminating the threats to the Golden Eagle population in and around the Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal with the management of the National Parks and Wildlife Service or with the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why a 3,000 year old Bronze Age timber roadway at Mayne Bog in Coole in County Westmeath was completely destroyed in June 2015; why the recommendation of the National Monuments Service, which examined this site in 2006 and advised further archaeological work, was not acted upon; why no attempt was made to legally protect this site,...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Issues (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent of Waterways Ireland's role in developing and using canal ways and canal banks to incorporate recreational cycle and walking routes; the sections of the canals which have been developed to incorporate such routes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43487/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Heritage Plan (8 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why no national heritage plan has been in place since 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43491/15]

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the multiple extra costs placed on the parents of children with dyslexia in seeking to ensure their children have access to the same standard of education as other children; that, notwithstanding the State supports in place, additional costs include a diagnosis every two to three years, membership of the Dyslexia Association...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I understand there is some funding under the general allocation model to the Dyslexia Association of Ireland, which provides workshops and special classes for children that are privately funded. It costs about €750 per year per child for those classes, and the bulk of that is the cost of renting classrooms from schools that are publicly funded.

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I know all that. Let me describe one situation. In north Kildare for the past 15 years an excellent workshop has been run by the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. The principal in the school was very supportive and the classroom was rented at a nominal rate because the heating and security was provided for other things that were happening. A new principal came in and, instead of it being...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I am sure there is a more general point to this. When the Dyslexia Association of Ireland sought to replace that classroom, it had a job doing it but, in the end, it got somewhere for €2,500 a year. If the Minister is talking to the Dyslexia Association of Ireland about this, I ask her to get some sort of understanding about such situations in general and not specifically in regard...