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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have very limited time. That answers where RTÉ is with the process at the moment. Eversheds went back two years. Is it not self-evident that there is a degree of retrospection when there was a look-back? That is an observation. In the UK, they are referred to as counterparts because it is not entirely set up on the same basis. The BBC ran into some significant high-profile...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The scope section of the Department of Social Protection will be looking at PRSI. That is very important. In many ways, RTÉ is an example of things at which we need to look in other organisations with regard to self-employment because the Social Insurance Fund has to be put on a firm footing, just as RTÉ obviously has to be put on a firm financial footing. Essentially, it is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: If Ms O'Shea could do that, it would be welcome.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Regarding the future of media in terms of content, advertising and so on, digital and social media platforms are here to stay. There is considerable revenue and Ms Forbes referred to Australia. The remit of the future of media commission does not include that aspect. Is that not necessary to fully evaluate what the future of media will be?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. The commission on the future of media in Ireland does not include digital and social media platforms as part of its terms of reference. How complete is that commission if it is not looking at that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Ms Forbes.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome this legislation. The Social Democrats will be supporting it. In 2007, the then Minister, Senator McDowell, introduced the Criminal Justice Bill to the Dáil. The Bill was explicitly put forward to, in the then Minister's words, "send a clear and unambiguous message" to organised criminal gangs. How effective these methods would actually be were questioned at the time, as was...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 137. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for this advice in tabular form. [22282/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 138. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on advertising and public messaging in print, broadcast and online since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged to assist with placing the advertisements and the companies advertised with in tabular form. [22300/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on public relations advice and media advice since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for this advice in tabular form. [22271/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on advertising and public messaging in print, broadcast and online since January 2020 to date in 2021; and the companies engaged to assist with placing the advertisements and the companies advertised with in tabular form. [22289/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Data (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual licensed tonnage of waste delivered to a company (details supplied) since it began operations; if the operators have made applications for increased tonnages that can be delivered to the plant in the past three years to date; and if he will provide a schedule of local authorities that deliver waste to the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that his Department spent on public relations advice, and media advice, between January 2020 and to date in 2021; and the companies engaged for this advice, in tabular form. [22272/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent by his Department on advertising and public messaging in print, broadcast and online between January 2020 and to date in 2021; and the companies engaged to assist with placing the advertisements and the companies advertised with, in tabular form. [22290/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has conducted an evaluation of the active travel funding stream; if his attention has been drawn to instances in which funding is being used for routine maintenance projects; and if so, the actions he has taken in respect of this use of funds. [21191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expedite the BusConnects Galway to Dublin roads project; and if his attention has been drawn to the inadequacy of public transport options in and to Galway city and its surrounding townlands. [21192/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount Irish Rail spent on installing separate bins in and around stations in order to provide passengers an option to dispose of rubbish for recycling or general waste in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [21437/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide funding to public transport operators in respect of retrofitting vehicles in order to improve ventilation. [21567/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which public transport operators will increase capacity on services in view of the fact that public health advice now facilities the movement of persons beyond five kilometres. [21568/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out the proposals in respect of a train depot in Kilcock, County Kildare as part of the Dart+ Maynooth extension; his plans to open a public consolation on the proposal; and the timeline in respect of this project from proposed commencement to completion. [21739/21]