Results 14,721-14,740 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will submit an FOI request to that person. What provision has the Minister's Department made with regard to the liability relating to the PSC scheme? Has the Minister any comment on the mass action by Digital Rights Ireland under the GDPR against her Department?
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will now go back to a point about the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport raised earlier. Presumably that Department went to and received advice from the Attorney General on such an issue. Would the Department go outside for advice on it? It is extraordinary that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and now the Passport Office, are at variance with the Department of...
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That is the point. There is a challenge in the report about the card not being an enabler. On a couple of occasions the Minister commented that she was very surprised the Data Protection Commissioner was not acceding to a request for a meeting. Did the commissioner not say that this was a final report? Once a report is final, one either accepts it or does not accept it. There is not a...
- Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: This is a technical Bill but nonetheless an important one. It has been a long time coming, but there are aspects to it that need clarification or amendment on Committee Stage. Housing associations play an important role and could play an even more important on in the future. At a recent meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts they stated this legislation was needed to assist them in...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Yield (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected to date in carbon tax; the methods of dispersing the revenue generated from the tax; the purposes for which the revenue collected from the tax has been used for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39251/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I asked parliamentary questions about consultancy contracts in each Department just before the summer. I asked what work they had undertaken, and the costs ran into tens of millions of euro. Some of them are one-off projects and one can understand why they are necessary for speciality services, but there were things like internal audit etc. I understand there is a shortage of accountants,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: If we publish this, it becomes a de facto-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: To be perfectly honest, I take the Chairman's exact point. We encountered this before when debating a company associated with IDA Ireland. There was a difference of opinion on whether IDA Ireland or the particular initiative created the jobs. Accommodation and food services might have received €5,000.50 each. It is daft to include those numbers and have them circulated as facts. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: They are doing a great job but that is not-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It would be helpful if we could see information on the children’s detention campus and if claims are being taken by staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Or children. There is something that needs to be considered in terms of how that is run. It could be slips and falls. My understanding is that there are many-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. There are a lot of temporary or agency staff and there may be structural issues involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The Chairman skipped through this item and gave only the headline figures in regard to the senior counsel. It is important to put on the record that the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser, OPLA, is engaging with cost accountants regarding the recoupment of legal fees paid to the counsel in regard to the High Court proceedings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is not just an outlay; there is a recoupment, in particular for the High Court aspect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The number of speeding fines that were not followed up on was announced on the news in recent days. That is an income. The Chairman is talking about spending money on the canine unit. I would say there is an income that has not been recouped. It is not only an income. The whole point of the speeding fines is to make the roads safer. There could be a price to pay in terms of human cost....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We need to follow that through.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Before the Chairman moves on, I would like to thank Mr. Robert Watt for his update on gender equality.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The explanation was-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There are two items which the Chairman might dispense with, Nos. 2361C and 2379C.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is correspondence from Deputy Cullinane and from me. It has been dealt with.