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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Health if memos (details supplied) were brought to the attention of his predecessor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21599/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if memos (details supplied) were discussed at central management meetings within his Department at which he and the Secretary General of his Department were in attendance in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21713/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the action the Chief Medical Officer took when his attention was drawn to memos (details supplied); if advice and or direction was issued regarding the contents of the documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21714/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department notified or sent documents (details supplied) to the State Claims Agency, the Chief State Solicitor or the Office of the Attorney General since 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21715/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Thank you very much for coming in and sharing your stories with us. We have had the HSE in at this committee routinely on various issues. Very often, it is about something much more academic and we are trying to understand something and humanise it. Unfortunately, we tend to get change in this country by people putting themselves forward, putting themselves out there in a way that really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I am asking for this to be included in our work programme. When we are discussing the governance of the major sports it would be helpful to explore this area and how this issue could be subsumed at an early stage into standard governance. For example, we have seen the role that has been played with regard to matters such as safeguarding youngsters. It is important that this area is taken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I am pleased we are meeting on this issue, which I sought to have included in our work programme. In doing so, what I had in mind was that we consider medium and longer term scenarios because it is important that we are proactive rather than reactive in terms of what can happen. Deputy Eamon Ryan and I first met on the consultative panel of the Dublin Transportation Initiative in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to make a point I raised some months ago when we were discussing College Green. I said at the time that we need to look at something that is less reactive and more proactive. I keep quoting the same statistics regarding where the growth has happened. I welcome the fact it was said we might come back in a number of weeks and look at it in a different way. My thinking on this meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Does the strategic planning of public transport include land use planning or what role do local authorities play in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Could I have answers to the questions I posed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: This goes to the heart of the problem. When we talk about having a strategic approach, it has to be about a connection between land use and transportation planning. One has to model that. One has to be deliberate about it or else one keeps producing sprawl.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Do the institutions or organisations need to be recalibrated to deal with that to which I refer? Outside of that, we may well be dealing with a separate range of problems in ten years because of where settlement happens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: What counties are included in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I had other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Surely there must be some evaluation of the way public transport is impeded in achieving the times it would like to achieve. Surely there are figures on productivity among the business community and the hours spent in traffic as opposed to working productively. Surely there is a mechanism for calculating those statistics when doing a cost-benefit analysis to make an investment in public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: So it is public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I had further questions, on BusConnects and considering connection points from a user's perspective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Also the Garda and the non-enforcement of the law at key points such as box junctions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Was the cost of congestion factored into the cost benefit analysis?