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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I want to return to the issue of National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. I am aware that the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General has people embedded in NAMA. Is the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report being published early in the day and will there be a chapter on NAMA within the report?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That is okay and I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It would also be worth writing to the NTA.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: For decades we have been known as a low-tax economy. Our 12.5% corporate tax rate has been the most identifiable thing about our industrial policy, the one constant that multinationals could rely on and a rate that was retained when the country went bust and had to be bailed out. However, the OECD will turn our 12.5% north star into a supernova. We all know change is coming with the global...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There is an inevitability. It will not-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There is an inevitability about the OECD and a minimum rate, and I noted the Taoiseach's comments last week. I am very aware of Intel's investment in Ireland because I live in the town where Intel is located. That was in the late 1980s and early 1990s before the facility was up and running. There was not the housing crisis there is now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There were not some of the cost-of-living issues that there are now. It would be short-sighted not to look at a unique selling point that factors in some of the issues, for example, the deficit in energy. Data centres are an issue in that regard. We tend to have quite a short-sighted approach to crises. We are very good at crisis management when we get there, but planning to make sure we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: -----that would be a unique selling point other than the corporation tax rate.

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Four days before the previous general election, the current Minister with responsibility for energy went public about wind energy development and the significant development that was needed before data centres were built. I refer to the following article that appeared on Extra.ie: Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has said he will push for massive offshore wind power capacity to be developed...

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

Catherine Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of and position regarding the DART interconnector in the context of the Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area 2016-2035. [46260/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of air routes and airlines he has engaged with in respect of the restoration of pre-pandemic air routes: if he plans to financially incentivise airlines to reinstate routes; and the amount in total he has to expend on this project. [46296/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Waterways Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding a barrier on a walk and cycle route of the Royal Canal (details supplied); and the guidance and or policy regarding barriers and the way in which they are deployed along greenways. [46503/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Projects (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the OPW plans to upgrade the condition of the public car park at Castletown House in Celbridge, County Kildare; the method of upgrading the surface which has been considered; the timelines for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46374/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the OPW manages its customer service process in respect of advising the public of the way in which it manages compliments, comments and complaints; the way in which that interaction occurs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46375/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 27 July 2021, if she will convene a meeting between her officials, the CSSO and a sports club (details supplied) in an effort to release a grant to the club in County Kildare; and if her attention has been drawn to an impasse regarding outstanding issues in respect of documentation....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his officials have engaged with and-or liaised with Ministers and-or officials in other jurisdictions in respect of issues impacting houses such as pyrite and MICA; if he will provide a schedule of those engagements; and if he will set out the nature of those engagements. [46020/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to instances in which defective concrete blocks originating from Ireland that made their way into supply chains to other jurisdictions. [46021/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his engagements with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the context of audits, inspections and or financial examinations of Irish Water; if he will provide an update on plans to include Ervia and Irish Water as bodies that can be subject to scrutiny by the Comptroller and Auditor General; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention or that of Waterways Ireland has been drawn to issues regarding a barrier on a walk and cycle route of the Royal Canal (details supplied); and if he will outline from his perspective and that of Waterways Ireland, the guidance and or policy regarding barriers and the way in which they are deployed along...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in respect of its role as independent auditor of Ervia in each of the years 2014 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the amount paid to the same company in respect of its role as independent auditor of Irish Water. [46949/21]