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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Many stations are open in theory but in fact they are closed most of the time. That is one of the criticisms I hear constantly. It will be important that the Policing Authority will consider the policing plans. I have never found and I have looked at them each year that they really do what the Minister says they should do in other words the demographic shifts and crime levels determine the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the fact that the Policing Authority will have a look at this. When we, the Deputies of Kildare, met the assistant commissioner on a number of occasions, we were pretty much told that what one has one holds, and that was the approach. That flies in the face of policing plans being what they are supposed to be, which is a dynamic and responsive approach to change. One issue that...

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputies Martin and Healy. While I broadly welcome the efforts to fully implement A Vision for Change in the area of mental health, this evening we are seeing more confusion around who is in Opposition and who is in Government. I believe the policy is suffering as a result of that confusion. The Social Democrats are committed to delivering on all aspects of the 2006...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Plans (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the practical interactions between the Garda Inspectorate, the Policing Authority, Garda management and her office in relation to producing a Garda service level agreement, an updated Garda customer service charter and the policing plan; if she has approved the policing plan for 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34843/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 9 November 2016, if she will provide the names of persons and country of origin of the applications made from terrestrial bookmakers not resident in the State in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35166/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the 9% VAT rate may be considered as state aid in view of the fact that it gives a select number of sectors a competitive advantage. [34911/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tax Collection (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply and remedy will issue to a person (details supplied) in respect of an error by his Department regarding an incorrect rate of PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34647/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (15 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that some ASTI members that opted out of supervision and substitution duties before the Haddington Road agreement are facing having their salary deducted despite the fact that they are no longer contracted to carry out those duties and cannot withdraw from them (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I, too, welcome the deputy First Minister and thank him for taking some time out of his obviously very busy schedule. Some 50% of the actual properties to which loans were attached were located in Northern Ireland but the common denominator was that the loans were all Northern Ireland owned. We heard from Mr. Ellingham of NAMA that the Northern Ireland portfolio was the most difficult of...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: In his statement, Mr. McGuinness said it was alleged there was massive shortchanging in terms of the amount that could have been got from the sale had it been worked out in a different way. Obviously, the Northern Ireland economy was Mr. McGuinness's focus. Was any work done in the institutions or the Executive on what the value of the assets in Northern Ireland might be? It is quite...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: There are two other sets of questions I wish to ask, one being on why there was a deviation from the kind of process that had occurred previously. Essentially, there was a bundling of loans. One of the reasons that was advanced was that there were political considerations that would have meant it was better to bundle and sell quickly. Some of that was in regard to the non-co-operation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Do the witnesses have a set of multipliers that show the impact of not investing in the roads network? Is it staggered over one year, three years and five years, for example? Obviously it costs more to carry out significant pieces of work. A lack of funding will also have an impact on the capital plan. I presume that the European Investment Bank will be one of the funding sources. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I have a question on the same topic, assuming TII does not run into rare snails along the way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Given that we are talking about motorway standard, at what point does TII consider such a project, in a business case, from the point of view tolling it? That impacts on usage, and we see how toll avoidance plays out in other areas. There are also the subsidies that are paid where there is not the required threshold. That has been the experience up to now. They are paid in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion. (16 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Like Castlebar and the N4.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. I will start with Mr. Corrigan. He was in a unique position in that he was a member of the board of NAMA but he was also in the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA. The year 2013 was important in that IBRC was liquidated and instead of a €3 billion payment annually, or a little more in some cases, it was elongated. In terms of the European...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Was there nothing specific to Project Eagle?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: In regard to when the sales process ceased to be confidential, when the information ended up in The Irish Times, did Mr. Corrigan consider a review of the strategy to sell? Was that considered at all? Can Mr. Corrigan recall that?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Was there any debate about getting better outcomes by approaching it in a different way?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Mulcahy came from real estate property background. Were the assets transferred to NAMA in advance of his arrival in NAMA. I wish to get a context.