Results 321-340 of 1,034,909 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ruairi Quinn OR speaker:Catherine Murphy)
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: I believe it is priceless.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: I would like the OPW to follow up on that and provide the information to the committee later. What was the income from events held in Castletown House?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Obviously, Ms Collier and I are both aware of the current situation. There has been a protest since the OPW did not manage to buy the adjoining land. In 2022, when it sought to buy the adjoining land, which is the access in for vehicular purposes, it indicated that it was the only viable vehicular access. When it came up for sale, it was offered for sale privately to the OPW and the OPW...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: So it was the Department of public expenditure. What was the amount of money that was being sought at that point for the sale of that land?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Did the Department give a flat "No"? Did it spend ages considering it? I ask Mr. Conlon to give us the set of circumstances there.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Did the OPW do valuations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Was the OPW evaluating it as agricultural or amenity, or is there a difference?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: In hindsight, which is a great thing, given that there is no viable vehicular access and there is a huge resistance to using the original entrance, which would have been built for carriages through the protected structures that are the gates, and the fact that 2,000 people a day, on average, walk that avenue, should there have been a different attention in terms of the vehicular access? If...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: The community would not agree with Ms Collier on that, of course, and she knows that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: When the OPW approached the new owner, what amount of money was sought for the land?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: I know this is an ongoing issue. I am very heavily involved in it myself. You could not avoid being involved if you are from that area. I can tell the witnesses that the community around Castletown - I know this is a national site but it is used most by local communities - feels very badly let down. The sanction for the lack of foresight is at the door of the Department. I am going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: May I ask about the arbitration? Usually, when arbitration happens, it is because there are two equal sides and you are trying to come to a conclusion or trying to move something on. There have been two arbitrations there. Why would it even have gone to arbitration? Has an absolute commitment now been given for this location? I know that one of them did not relate to the site.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Just before we go in that direction, there is another facility out in Sandyford that was repurposed and opened recently. It is on quite a large site of about 20 acres. Does this change the dynamic at all?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: To go back to the legal obligation, where does this come from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: A commitment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Was this a legal commitment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Sorry, just on this point, has the dynamic changed now given there is a private facility in Sandyford?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: We will have to come back to the subject.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Is that the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth?