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Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What was €1.9 million as a percentage of the total spend of the organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I want to keep with the issue of taxis, in particular ranks and racism. One issue constantly brought to my attention is the racism arising between taxi drivers in Dublin. What is the authority's responsibility in this regard?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What about controlling the taxi ranks? I suppose the authority has a responsibility about how these are operated.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Who monitors and enforces those regulations? Has the NTA a team of inspectors who monitor behaviour at the ranks?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is the taxi rank at St. Stephen's Green one of the ranks monitored?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Have complaints been made to the authority about ranks stipulating Irish-only drivers and ranks stipulating foreign national-only drivers operating in the city?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What is the talk about the O'Connell Street rank?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is the authority doing something about it?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Has the authority ever sanctioned a taxi driver for racist behaviour or investigated a taxi driver for allegations of racist behaviour?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The NTA is the industry regulator. We know that a particular rank in O'Connell Street might have particular problems relating to racism between taxi drivers. Certain taxi drivers are being excluded because of their perceived ethnicity, colour or nationality. Why is the attention of the authority not focused on O'Connell Street by having an officer present all the time to ensure this is not...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: This is mob-like behaviour where certain people or groups of people are controlling ranks. These are meant to be ranks accessible to every single taxi driver who wants to pull up and take a passenger from them. However, they are unable to do so because it is a white-only rank.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: But is the authority ensuring they can pull up?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Why not try to deal with it? Why not implement a programme for improving integration between taxi drivers or for knowledge awareness? Why not provide different courses undertaken by other areas of Irish life to help with these kinds of issues? Why not take it on as a role for the authority?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I would advise such action. The authority should take it upon itself and the board of the authority should discuss the matter. In my view it is a responsibility of the board to deal with this. Every time I get into a taxi or I am out in Dublin at night I see what is going on and I hear the complaints. I get complaints to my office from all sorts of people from every walk of life. It is...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount the State subsidy to the Irish Greyhound Board is worth; the person who oversees its spend; what it is designated for; if it is performance linked and his views on whether the allocation is value for money. [5282/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Staff (5 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland is complying with the EU Working Time Directive for non-consultant hospital doctors at present; if NCHDs are working more than 48 hours per week andor working for more than 24 hours consecutively.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5281/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (5 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health when the single health insurance fund will be put in place; the persons who will be covered under the new system; the services to be covered by the fund; the amount of the additional cost that is covered; if there is a forum in which private insurers may decide how to modify their plans in line with these services; if additional tax relief is planned for those...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (6 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are any retired public sector workers from his Department, or any other part of the public sector, currently on his Department's payroll, for example, for sitting on a committee or preparing a report, but not exclusively these two areas; the number on the payroll; the cost to his Department; the services being...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (6 Feb 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to an organisation (details supplied); and his views on whether their work merits support from Irish Aid [6286/13]