Results 11,321-11,340 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: On a point of order-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The Acting Chairman asked that there would be some degree of brevity. It is an hour since he did so. This is the third time Deputy Mattie McGrath has spoken on this amendment. He has spoken for an hour. He is filibustering and does not really want the Minister to answer the questions. He will keep on talking. The way the Parliament is being abused is very unfair. I was accused of being...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: -----and is talking down the clock.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I will not withdraw it. That is exactly what the Deputy is doing.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Hold on, I object to being talked about in that way.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I will be brief. On Deputy Fitzmaurice's suggested amendment, there is merit in the points he made about the length of waiting time for driving tests. We all wish that driving tests were available in as short a time as possible. I cannot support the Deputy's amendment, even though I think a valid point is being made. It has to be dealt with separately. To take it to its logical...
- Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The Minister informed us earlier that the figures for this month show an increase of 12 in the number of families that are homeless. A total of 57 adults and, heartbreakingly, 137 children have become homeless since the previous set of figures. The Minister told us not to panic and that the figures do not paint the whole picture. He set out other provisos to try to convince us that things...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to an increase in funding for local drugs task forces in view of the increase in demand on such services and budget increases to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26082/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disabilities Assessments (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for conducting an assessment of need following an application being received; if there are variations between different parts of the country; if so, the locations in which they are different; the reason that is the case; if cases such as the case of the person (details supplied) are commonplace; if not, the changes occurring; the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Another issue we were to come back to under that heading involved Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. In the past week or so, there was a television programme which outlined some of the procurement issues there. Some of those will fall under a criminal investigation. Some of the issues, however, will not. Certainly, I am picking up deep concern about the waste of public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: My recollection of that meeting with RTÉ was that there were many questions that we would have like to have answered on that very specific topic. However the report that was being prepared was referred to constantly and, as a consequence, it is unfinished business. We have no choice but to return to it to close off that topic and get a full understanding as to whether people genuinely...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I cannot find it either.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: There is a statutory review. Do we know the timeframe involved? No two cases will be the same, but there will be a trend. We will see things that are not working or which may need some amendments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: How does a statutory review take place and we only find out about it by accident?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It is a box ticking exercise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Did we receive any correspondence directly from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform seeking our input, given that we are recipients of protected disclosures?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I am on a joint policing committee, probably like everyone else here. In Kildare, a protocol has been agreed and our money has been drawn down. The expectation from CCTV very often does not meet the reality. We have plenty of motorways in Kildare. I would say we have more than in any other county. There is an agreed a protocol. Maybe a suggestion is that the City and County Management...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Is this not No. 1408B?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It ties in with correspondence No. 1370B which outlined what the Department asserted had been done. As we discussed during our periodic review, this sector must be on our work schedule in its own right. I believe that is what we will recommend. According to this letter, property standards were cited as the reason for 210 exits. All of those must be in my constituency, given that I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: We must decide to do that.