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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The report is quite interesting. Page 11-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I just wish to make the point that page 11 states it would have been easier to start with a blank sheet and decide rather than have the criterion that there had to be a previously existing station for reopening to be considered. We must be careful not to stray into the area in which the justice committee most properly would have an involvement. There are costs in picking particular stations...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: -----in Kildare, Meath and a few other places. They are all areas that have had high growth and are now playing catch-up. This is the first time I have seen the census of population used for this purpose. I warmly welcome the idea that we are taking a strategic approach if this is the new approach to the deployment of resources, but it has not happened before. We also must understand what...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. Shanahan for coming. He may be blamed for the lack of balance in the development of industrial policy, but companies decide why they should locate in a particular area. I asked one major industry in my area why it had located there and was told it was because it wanted to be located near a major conurbation with a reverse traffic flow in the city. As it is a wet industry, it...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That would be helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to ask Mr. Shanahan about ConnectIreland. It has been gone through quite a bit already. Mr. Shanahan was asked about the numbers. It is the companies that determine the numbers and I would not dispute that. Is there a length of time the job must have been in place for it to qualify? Does it have to be there for six months or 12 months to qualify as a job that was delivered under...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is there a timeline?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Housing was something that Mr. Shanahan referenced in his opening statement. It is a challenge, irrespective of industrial policy. There are opportunities in the likes of Brexit. Thankfully, the rate of unemployment is falling quite quickly. Successful industrial policy in which we will be investing will probably require us to bring in additional employees. This morning we heard the...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Looking at the educational options and the differentiation in terms of the type of education that, for example, Germany has, where there is a different approach involving half-time apprenticeship and half-time college, is that something that is considered or engaged with? Does IDA conduct skills audits on what is required? Does our education policy, from an industrial perspective, require...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputies Eamon Ryan and Seamus Healy. This Government does a lot of talking about opportunities. Today was an opportunity for bold and brave vision, and an opportunity to take Ireland on new path. However, today the Government decided to let those opportunities go to waste, choosing instead to try to please as many groups as possible in some small way rather than...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Stamp Duties (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The proposal is reasonably sensible and we will support it. I have a number of questions. I am also confused about the land. In his contribution, the Minister may well have said something about leases on agricultural land; I am not sure if I picked that up correctly. For example, what is calculated as being the likely refunds? Has a calculation been done on the cohort of land that would...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 22 February 2017, the status of his consultations with other member states in advance of the publication of the proposal regarding the reform of VAT rates in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Telecommunications Infrastructure (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the planning permissions for communication masts on sites need to be regularised to comply with planning regulations in instances in which a Garda station has been closed; the number of Garda communication masts that have been decommissioned and disposed of; if costs have been incurred as part of the decommissioning; if so, the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question number 98 of 4 October 2017, what companies are subletting a space or fixing to a garda telecom mast and their location by Garda station, in tabular form. [42925/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to parliamentary question number 98 of 4 October 2017, the location in which the income from rental space on telecoms masts is lodged to; if An Garda Síochána keeps the income; if he is satisfied that the collection of income is revenue compliant; if the OPW or An Garda Síochána is engaged in long term...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to parents who wish to send their children to Gaeltacht areas (details supplied) over the summer months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42589/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reinstate or introduce a grant aid payment to families that wish to send their children to Gaeltacht areas (details supplied) in 2018 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money saved on an annual basis in each of the past three years from substitutable days not being covered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42719/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Magdalen Laundries (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional persons have been added to the list since Caranua was established over and above those identified in the Quirke report; if so, the number; the criteria used; the years in which this occurred; if new persons were included; if resources were provided to cover this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (10 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the terms of reference for the interim reports and final report regarding the reopening of six Garda stations on a pilot basis; the length of time the stations will be reopened as part of the pilot scheme; if other considerations will be given in determining if a pilot station will remain open on a full...