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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Properties (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount expended per year in cases in which land is leased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25388/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Properties (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of buildings and property purchased and leased and the amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and the amount expended per year in cases in which properties are leased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25405/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Schemes (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 684. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding directed to the conservation and management of heritage, both natural and built, nationally in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the levels of engagement she has had with State tourism bodies regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24865/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Properties (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 686. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount expended per year in cases in which land is leased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25381/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Properties (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 687. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of buildings and property purchased and leased and the amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and the amount expended per year in cases in which properties are leased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25398/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a committee of inspection in respect of IBRC; his plans to include on that committee independent non-departmental officials and external persons with the appropriate expertise; if he envisages a role for the Comptroller and Auditor General in this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25813/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: This question relates to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, the combination of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, and how the special liquidation is supervised. It is supervised in the Department of Finance and I am seeking the Minister's views on establishing a committee of inspection into IBRC to increase transparency and accountability.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I remember the night in February 2013, as will the Minister, when we were presented with a Bill at 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock at night. We hardly had time to read it and it passed all Stages by 5 o'clock the following morning. Clearly, this issue and other issues were not afforded the kind of scrutiny they would otherwise have been given because the legislation had to be enacted before the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: In many ways, it is a matter of how it is interrogated. For example, there is a fundamental difference between this and the handling of NAMA, where the Comptroller and Auditor General has a role. There are staff from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General embedded in NAMA. There is a degree of transparency regarding asset disposal owing to interrogation by a committee of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I apologise as I was longer than anticipated elsewhere. There was a row and a suspension, and another row.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Those are the joys of trying to be in two places at once. Many of us who have been dealing with the transport issue for a long time want action. Some of us have seen good plans in the past. We went into that in an enthusiastic way, for example, in a deliberative forum. When the Dublin Transportation Initiative was rolled out in the early 1990s, both Deputy Eamon Ryan and I were on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: An advisory panel and we put great time and energy into what contained some good provisions when it came out. My view on plans now is predicated on that enthusiasm and what happened. There was consideration of where people lived and scenario testing, and we examined the worst-case scenario where we were to have higher densities in the city centre and linkages with public transport, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We also need to know how they propose to do fund their proposals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We are dealing with the aviation sector because the likes of Ryanair is headquartered here. I recall this issue was discussed a short time ago by the Committee of Public Accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: No. We were told it is about where the company is based. That needs to be examined. The headquarters here is important from that point of view.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has been consulted regarding the cost-benefit analysis study that Dublin Port Company commissioned to examine if an investment in berths at North Wall Quay is made; his plans to make a contribution to the cost-benefit analysis in the context of making Dublin a cruise destination as a home port or stop over destination; and if he...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Essentially, the legislation was presented in a particular light. The expectation was that anyone who was the original owner and transferred to NAMA would not become the beneficial owner again at a reduced price. That is shorthand for how it was presented. NAMA is probably being blamed for a shortfall in the legislation and in anticipating how things would play out. The public expectation...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is important to say that although the Comptroller and Auditor General had a role, the primary role was for NAMA. The spirit of section 172 could never have played out, and NAMA would have seen that most directly. We have all been knocking on doors recently, and I have noticed a gap in the planning legislation in relation to strategic projects. It is a small thing but when one notices...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: For the book value. That is not in the spirit of what was intended and it is certainly not how it was articulated publicly or to this House. I am not in complete agreement with Deputy MacSharry about NAMA. Soon after I came on to this committee, we had a few months of back and forth on Project Eagle and a report is bring done on Project Nantes. Some very good work was done by NAMA but...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that.