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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: My question relates to the small amount of money provided to allow for work to reconnect people with families. Does the Department have an evaluation on that service at this stage? Some of us will hear from people who feel that there is a resistance in some of the orders to being forthcoming with information that might be available, their records for example. That is really quite hurtful...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can I interject to ask if that was under the 2002 agreement as opposed to 2009 agreement?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cycle Network (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 362. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that has been allocated for the National Cycle Network in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19005/17]

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am sharing my time with Deputy Eamon Ryan. After years of wrangling, grandstanding, fake fights and false bravado, we have a report. Since the day the Opposition walked out of this Chamber en massein December 2013, the inability of the Government and particularly its predecessor to listen to voices that were clearly pointing out what the Chief Whip, Deputy Regina Doherty, summed up earlier...

Report of the Fennelly Commission: Statements (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Fennelly report is another absolutely damning assessment of the upper echelons of An Garda Síochána and Garda management. An alarming situation emerged in which a number of ex-Commissioners, a serving Commissioner, and their deputies were allegedly unaware of the existence of the practice of recording non-999 calls. Mr. Justice Fennelly has had to take at face value their...

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is beginning to feel like a bit like Groundhog Day. It seems that not a week goes by but that there is some debate in this House about yet another element of dysfunction in the management and operation of An Garda Síochána. Tonight we will debate the findings of the Fennelly report into the circumstances which saw the previous Garda Commissioner’s reign come to an end....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: These hearings are in the context of pre-legislative scrutiny. The key issue for us is evidence. We have to satisfy ourselves that the evidence shows that enacting this legislation has the potential to save lives. We have to look at the Road Safety Authority evidence, including some of the points that have been made. We also have to look at international evidence. There is no doubt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The tone of the Licensed Vintners Association is that there is public transport here and it is less of an issue. It is a much stronger issue for the Vintners Federation of Ireland, yet the risk is much higher outside of Dublin where it is 89%. One would expect resistance from the Licensed Vintners Association because there is less damage done by virtue of the higher compliance rate or lower...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I think it is accidents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It strikes me that the Vintners Federation of Ireland should have a stronger feeling in terms of protecting clients or customers in its members' pubs. Mr. Cribben said it is a long story in that regard. Are the vintners' groups wholly funded by their members and no additional funding comes from the drinks industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Where does the other 10% come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: So it is not from the big drinks companies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is it the same for the Licensed Vintners Association?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The groups representing publicans are an interest group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Right, okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am sure that is the case. That is part of the reason I wonder why there is not one large organisation because it seems to me that would involve greater leverage. The comment that every generation must learn the law is an interesting one. There is some validity in that. It would be useful for us to recommend some things from the hearings and one of them would be about education and...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I suppose clichés exist for a purpose but one that jumps to mind immediately is that if one does not learn from history, it has a tendency to repeat itself. It looks like we are heading back to the same banking model as was in place prior to the crash. Indeed, it was not only the citizens of Ireland who picked up the tab. Many people are in penury who had invested in these banks, in...

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: This morning RTE reported that the Government is considering relaxing the cap on bankers' pay to facilitate a huge salary for the new Bank of Ireland chief executive officer. The cap is already set at €500,000, yet Bank of Ireland has now stated such a cap places it at a competitive disadvantage. It is worth noting that last year alone, Mr. Boucher's total package was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the policy in which there is no provision or obligation to provide a general purpose hall when providing for renovations in a school, in view of the fact that it is provided for during new school builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18193/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (11 Apr 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for local authority mortgages for house extensions in situations in which it would cater for overcrowding or in which it would satisfy housing needs for those on the housing waiting list; the measures under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17468/17]