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Other Questions: Cycling Facilities Provision (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: During the past 15 or 20 years, many cycleways have been constructed, some of which are not great because they mix buses and bicycles. Each local authority is doing its own thing, and we need an overview. The National Transport Authority, NTA, has a role and could design the cycleways such that they do not stop at country boundaries and leave gaps.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the primary adviser at Davy Corporate Finance (details supplied) with responsibility for the 2012 Siteserv sale, who was also responsible for managing the corporate finance relationship of an interested party at that time (details supplied), was subsequently hired by his Department to oversee the shareholder management unit, which...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if, as part of his departmental inquiries into the sale of Siteserv by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in 2012, he was aware that shares in Siteserv were bought by senior employees at the entity engaged by Siteserv to facilitate its own sale in the three month period immediately preceding the actual sale to Millington Ltd.; if he was aware that these...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release all documentation and correspondence between his Department, other State agencies, the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and all other parties concerning the acquisition of shares in Siteserv Ltd. in the period 1 June 2011 to date in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16997/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of instances where a person (details supplied) met with Siteserv company management at any stage from 1 January 2011 to the date of the eventual sale of Siteserv by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, or had direct engagements; if he is aware of instances where this person met with management or staff at the corporation, or had direct...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to instances where the main shareholders of Siteserv met with a person (details supplied), or had direct engagements with the person, at any stage from 1 January 2011 to the date of the eventual sale of Siteserv by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16999/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will account for the reason neither the Financial Services Regulator, the Irish Stock Exchange nor the Irish Takeover Panel initiated any inquiries into the sale of Siteserv by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will share the extent of his Department’s correspondence with each of these entities in relation to same; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (29 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that all staff employed in his Department do not have financial interests which may conflict with their public service duties; the requirements which are placed upon staff in order to ensure impartiality; if it is permissible for staff who are employed at his Department to comply with these regulations by transferring any potential...

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I commend my colleague in the Technical Group, Deputy Donnelly, on proposing workable solutions. The Government would be well advised to consider what has been proposed, although there will be a countermotion. People often view a house as a piece of property. It is one thing to lose a piece of property, but it is another to lose one's home. Every Deputy has met people who were about to...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Deputy Mac Lochlainn for making that point. It is one we make during every budget and the situation is very insulting. I accept some of the things which were said in the spring statement. I accept that there is growth in the economy, and that is welcome. I accept that there are more people at work, and that is very welcome, but I question the quality of some of those jobs,...

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The public will not allow the Government to get away with this sham.

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Do not insult us.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason documents released to this Deputy under the Freedom of Information Acts concerning the sale of a company (details supplied) were so heavily redacted; if he will provide a page by page justification for each redaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16654/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the number of large transactions undertaken by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation which his Department had concerns over, as described in documents released to this Deputy under the Freedom of Information Act, concerning the sale of a company (details supplied) by the corporation, and which he was also described as being...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will elaborate specifically upon what his Department officials described as poor management which was displayed in a number of large transactions, as described in documents released to this Deputy under the Freedom of Information Act, concerning the sale of a company (details supplied) by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if his Department had...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 16 December 2014, the reason he refused to answer the specific question, which asked if he was satisfied that the sale of a company (details supplied) by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation was done in the best possible interests of the State, instead indicating that he was informed that the board of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will categorically state if the sale of a company (details supplied) by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation was in fact conducted for the maximum return for the State; the reason he has failed to state his position thus far on this matter, even though it has come to light that his Department believed that the sale decision has raised a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release the findings of the review undertaken by officials at the Central Bank of Ireland into the sale of a company (details supplied) by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will indicate the main recommendations arising from same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16659/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he stated in Dáil Éireann on 6 February 2013 during his opening remarks on Second Stage of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013, that he wished to emphasise that the reason these steps were being taken was entirely distinct from the performance or direction of the board or management of the corporation, and that he wished to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (28 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance if he took the advice of his officials who recommended that the chairman of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation be asked to commission a full independent review in relation to a company's (details supplied) transaction, as written in documents released to this Deputy under the Freedom of Information Act; if so, the procedure that was followed; the...