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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (12 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers issued with a fixed charge notice for driving while holding a mobile phone by Garda division in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the number of drivers per year that failed to pay the fixed charge notice; the number of drivers that were summoned to court for failure to pay by District Court in each of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (12 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if PULSE was updated in 2019 providing a field whereby gardaí must report the reason a vehicle was seized under section 41 of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2018 to include the offence of driving while disqualified; if data can now be provided through this avenue to give the number of vehicles and drivers who had their...

Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I broadly welcome this legislation. It is good to see that the Insolvency Service Of Ireland, MABS and the Citizens Information Board have all welcomed the Bill. Personal insolvency is an incredibly difficult situation for anyone to be in and we have to make every effort to ensure that the process is fair and does not put people through unnecessary hardship. Personal insolvency...

Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: A number of Bills have been put forward on ticket touting over the years. There is cross-party support on progressing this legislation, as there was in respect of previous legislation. It is welcome to see this before the House and that the Government has committed to enacting this legislation, hopefully prior to the reopening of live events. Everyone has felt the absence of sports, music...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: To pick up on that point, I recall, when the legislation was going through the Houses, asking where the appeals process was and being told it was the courts. Are we surprised, therefore, that we are spending a lot of money on judicial reviews when people believe there is no appeals process other than to the courts? There is a financial cost to this but it was always envisaged that it would...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously a judicial review is not done on the principle of a development. It is taken on a technical defect in the process. Has An Bord Pleanála categorised the primary reason for losing the various cases it has lost and, if so, what have those reasons been?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Walsh is not coming across clearly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: In a judicial review case where the court finds in favour of An Bord Pleanála, what happens to costs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The Aarhus Convention requires that people are allowed to have an input into environmental legislation. Would An Bord Pleanála conclude there is a flaw in the SHD process with regard to cutting people out? Is this a conclusion An Bord Pleanála could make with regard to its experience with engaging with the courts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to Mr. Egan about costs. He might be able to provide us with a note about the strategic housing developments that have been judicially reviewed where the case is decided. Where the board has been successful with a judicial review, will he tell us whether legal costs were recovered? If not, why not? Where the judicial review was successful for the other side, did the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (13 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: A criticism is often that a planning authority would have "to have regard to" but that changed "to be in compliance with". Looking at those in my constituency, it does not appear that it has to be in compliance with these plans. The witnesses might consider them. For example, there have been three strategic housing developments in Clane, a small town, with 900 houses. One cannot be...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Investigations (18 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Taoiseach if he and bodies under his aegis have engaged private investigation companies or persons in the past three years to date; and if so, the cost, duration and purpose of these engagements of this type of contractor. [25833/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Investigations (18 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and bodies under his aegis have engaged private investigation companies or persons in the past three years to date; and if so, the cost, duration and purpose of these engagements of this type of contractor. [25822/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Investigations (18 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and bodies under his aegis have engaged private investigation companies or persons in the past three years to date; and if so, the cost, duration and purpose of these engagements of this type of contractor. [25823/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans by Irish Rail to repurpose and or renovate the disused portion of Bray Daly train station that was formerly a public licensed premises; and if consideration has been given to its use for retail and or cafe status. [25814/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which works will commence on the set-down and forecourt area of Bray Daly station. [25815/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of reported instances of trespass and vandalism on the DART rail network in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of successful prosecutions of same over the same time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25816/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Investigations (18 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and bodies under his aegis have engaged private investigation companies or persons in the past three years to date; and if so, the cost, duration and purpose of these engagements of this type of contractor. [25835/21]