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National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I ask the Minister of State to come back to me on that.

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: On a point of order, there is no Minister on the other side of the House.

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There has been quite a bit of media coverage around the NBP in recent months, particularly before Christmas. It has mainly focused on missed targets, on how very little of the investors’ own money has gone into the NBP, on how it is funded, on the complicated corporate structure and so on. The big takeaway was about the expectation that €175 million in equity was to be put in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Exercises (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he was informed by the Irish Aviation Authority regarding its role in the context of Russian plans to conduct artillery drills off the Irish coast (details supplied). [4136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Weather Events (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that there are only 25 entries from Ireland on the global database on extreme weather events EM-DAT for the period 1900-2021 while many of the proposed entries by EM-DAT appear empty, for example, the cost of damages, lives lost and so on in the context of the national long-term climate action strategy required under...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Weather Events (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the work underway regarding the monitoring of extreme weather events; if he will report on the impact of same on social, economic and environmental and heritage losses on a functioning database similar to the EM-DAT, the global database on extreme weather events, in the context of the national long-term climate action...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which he intends to remedy those cases in which the loss of social, economic or environmental and natural heritage occur from flooding in the context of the national long-term climate action strategy that is required under section 3(2)(d) of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (as amended), for flood...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Exercises (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and or his officials staff met with Russian officials, diplomats or military staff in respect of Russian plans to conduct artillery drills off the coast of this jurisdiction (details supplied); if so, if he will publish minutes and or memos attached to those meetings; and if he will provide the date on which he was informed of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Exercises (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 245. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he and or the Defence Forces staff met with Russian officials, diplomats or military staff in respect of Russian plans to conduct artillery drills off the coast of this jurisdiction (details supplied); and if so, if he will publish minutes and or memos attached to those meetings. [4134/22]

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We all acknowledge that transport will be one of the three big areas we will have to deal with. We have to achieve a modal shift. That has got to be the objective, not least because of our climate obligations and the crisis the planet is in but also because there is a very strong economic reason. We need our public transport services to connect and work. I am a strong advocate of public...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Please do not give me that.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Nobody wants some of those services.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is Ms Graham saying that those services will not change until after the pandemic and things have returned to normal?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Where people were using a service and BusConnects is introduced and services are taken off this is what happens. I am using my area as an example. I am sure this is going to be replicated. The authority needs to be listening to the feedback in those areas.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is not listening to that feedback because there is no method for people to feed back.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Will the NTA look at where it is operating services and nobody is using them? The biggest complaint I am hearing is that buses are travelling around empty. People are complaining about the waste. At the same time, they are asking for services previously in place to be reinstated.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I presume the NTA carries out traffic surveys. If one listens to "AA Roadwatch", one will note that it is the areas on the periphery that dominate its reports. I have done some measurement around, for example, car numbers between one particular junction and the next, where I noted a considerable increase so it is not that people are not travelling. There is traffic chaos at some of the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I cannot accept that. I will not allow that to stand on the record because that is not the experience.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want this to be localised.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want this to be localised. This is about eight spines, two of which have been rolled out. We have to learn lessons. This is being rolled out on an incremental basis for a purpose. I acknowledge that aspects of it are working, but there are parts of it that are deplorable. If the NTA does not pick up on that, it will make the same mistakes on the others. I do not want this to be...