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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The €2.25 billion investment in the DART and the electrification of rail services will cover services such as the Maynooth and Hazelhatch lines. That is welcome. It is even more welcome given that it is in my constituency. The tunnelling for the DART underground will cost somewhere between €3 billion and €4 billion. That cannot be included in that amount. Where is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It creates a network. It was part of the Dublin Transportation Initiative in the early 1990s. It went through a railway order and had a ten-year planning permission. Then the ten-year planning permission lapsed and there was a decision not to proceed. This was during the time of the crash and decisions had to be made. It is not a new project.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Irish Rail brought the project through that process. When it went to the level of railway order, a significant amount of money was invested to get it to that point, as well as scoping and checking out the terrain. The longer it is put on hold, is any of that reusable? Does it have to be repeated?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It has been there a long time.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I am not disputing that they bring benefits. It is a question of time. It is the one piece that gives one greater capacity in terms of movement and the development of a network. Go-Ahead won its contract through a tender process. It was said that it will be less expensive than the comparator. It will have to retendered in five or six years’ time. It does not count historical...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The NTA owns the buses. Who maintains them? With regard to public liability, I know from discussions I have had at another committee that, when a whole new group of drivers is taken on, public liability insurance costs increase. A high level of training is required to keep those costs to a minimum. Who covers those costs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Is Ms Graham satisfied with the level of maintenance?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. I understand he will bring the points I am raising back to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, who cannot be here this evening. The aspect of the housing assistance payment, HAP, I want to focus on is a serious problem that seems to have dramatically worsened in the past two or three months, namely, the delay in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I would like the Minister of State to ring the Limerick office. What is in his reply does not match in any way the experience of the applicants. That information must be out of date. It is not fair on applicants to put them in this situation. If their applications were being processed within two days I would not be on my feet raising this issue. I would not have queues of people coming...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 104. To ask the Taoiseach the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period. [41825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 106. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41815/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41819/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Civil Service Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41818/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status regarding extra costs submitted by a contractor associated with the Kevin Street Garda divisional headquarters to the Office of Public Works; if he will provide the sum associated with the additional costs; if the OPW are disputing the bill in its entirety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41720/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 164. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to extend the duration for which a civil servant may take a career break in order to gain private sector and-or other public service experience and-or avail of full-time study; the number of civil servants on career break in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of additional public servants employed in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41809/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41823/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the attention of the OPW has been drawn to flood issues on the River Toni at Celbridge, County Kildare; the plans by the Office of Public Works to conduct a study on part of the river or carry out works in the context of nearby land and property developments impacting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41866/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of works for each Garda station in the context of planned retrofitting and-or renovation works in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42007/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41816/19]