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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Air.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. Gallagher.
- Public Service Pay Commission Report on the Permanent Defence Force: Statements (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The Minister of State does not need me to repeat what has been said. It has been made abundantly clear by the thousands of members of the Defence Forces that the proposals put forward in this report are simply not going to cut it for them and their families. We know that the report was hamstrung from the outset by virtue of its terms of references and what it could and could not look at....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 446. To ask the Minister for Health the level of dementia services and supports by county; his plans to increase funding for dementia support services in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30468/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 732. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a company (details supplied) or related companies within the group will be permitted to sell products and-or services outside the intervention area; if he has tested this to ensure compliance with state aid rules; if he or existing operators have engaged with each other on the issue in view of the fact that it...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 740. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the full name and make-up of the entity listed as the bidder and-or consortium in section A General Information, 4.1 Bidder information on page 13 of the national broadband plan pre-qualification questionnaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30650/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Data (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 792. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected by Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Luas from persons evading fares in the past two years to date; the number of fines issued by the revenue protection unit in Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Luas in the past two years to date in 2019; the number of fines appealed; the number of successful appeals; the way in which the moneys...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Data (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 793. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected by Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Luas from persons fined for putting their feet on seats as per the posted notice inside public transport vehicles for the past five years to date; the number of fines issued for the same offence in the past two years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30649/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: If the correspondence is circulated, it will end up in the media and there will not be discussion here about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: On what page is the Chairman?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: REITs were recently described as the gift that keeps on giving. While I accept this is a policy area, we will return to this issue in time and ask if the REITs were value for money. Rather than seeing it in hindsight, we can see forward with 20:20 vision. If one could make that prediction now, we would say the REITs are clearly not value for money. It is extremely frustrating that we can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Some of us did not vote. It was 5 a.m.-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: -----and we got it at 10 p.m. The criticism was that there was inadequate time for scrutiny before the Bill passed all Stages. In fact, the very point that was made was that we were missing things in the Bill by virtue of the fact that we did not have the time to scrutinise it properly and we were advised that it had to be adopted before the markets opened in the morning. It is very easy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: -----assets that are disposed of by NAMA. It was an enormous amount of money. The Minister is certainly not going to accede to a committee of inspection - I see the point - but there remains a deficiency in the oversight.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously, this will come up in the context of the Department of Finance, which is audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General, but what would have been the difference between the Comptroller and Auditor General auditing this and auditing NAMA or being embedded in the same way? Would there have been a difference? Was the Office of the Attorney General even consulted?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: As is NAMA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: However, there would be assets in IBRC that would be sold for less than their original valuation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: My understanding is that IBRC, as liquidated, is required to sell to the highest bidder. That had not been the case, as demonstrated in the pre-liquidated entity. That is why we are having a commission of investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Would this normally have been obvious in the accounts?