Results 15,081-15,100 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Can we also ask the Department to provide information on the lifespan of the card and the projected cost? Are there any storage costs involved in the vast amount of information that is provided and that the Department retains? That was one of the subject matters that the Data Protection Commissioner referred to in her report. I note that, according to the Department, it does not have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We might get that in advance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: In a week when we have been hearing about sizeable job losses, one relevant issue is how much it costs to create a job. We have heard different figures from IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland and now we are seeing this. The information we have been given is very welcome, and I agree with the Chairman that this is what we sought. That much is clear. However, I note that an external review...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Deputies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That was the issue I was pursuing in terms of zones and proximity to streets. The information would be useful. Could we write to the relevant organisations and ask them whether we can publish this material?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Putting it into the public domain would be useful. Could we do that in the first instance?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We probably need to raise the issue I mentioned about car parking and out-of-town venues separately. It could be at odds with and could undermine other policies on the viability of town centres, which are the heart of any location. There was a transfer of assets worth in excess of €11 billion from local authorities to Irish Water. A large water treatment plant like the one in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The word is "commercial".

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Is it a block grant that goes to Irish Water and then Irish Water pays commercial rates?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: From what element is it paying the commercial rates?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is not subject.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Just to pick up from where Deputy Cullinane left off, I published legislation that was debated in the Dáil in February 2013. That legislation was defeated. It was the same week that the Minister introduced the climate legislation; mine just came in a week before. I remember it very well because my Bill contained targets and my criticism of the Minister was that he did not. He told me...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is on bogs.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is mad.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Bogs are a carbon sink. Wetlands are incredibly important. I am just losing my temper on this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I was on the committee that presented the report. We had pre-legislative scrutiny and a really quite detailed report. We had people making the argument that the best thing we can do with cutaway bogs is to wet them. Planting trees is the wrong use. Perhaps Mr. Gleeson would give us that note. I am losing my patience in respect of this matter. Maybe it is just that it has annoyed me for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: What is the definition of "commercial"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I cannot remember the exact number of stadia that were not private but only two of them were commercial. One was in Cork and the other was Shelbourne Park. They also have falling numbers attending, to the point that they are running early morning race meetings for television audiences and they do not mind if they do not get people coming in through the door. It is very difficult to see how...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is where it gets its income. It does not get any funding other than from these 8,000 greyhounds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is where its primary income comes from.