Results 21-40 of 418 for cork speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...other correspondence already referred to, if the committee is agreeable to that. Finally, a number of further items of correspondence have been received in respect to the closure of Owenacurra Centre, County Cork, namely, Nos. 1277, 1280, 1287 and 1291. Following receipt of correspondence on this matter last year, we wrote to the HSE and the matter was raised with this body when it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (31 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...the number of airport police in this State; and if he will provide the date on which the airport police embarked on workforce planning in the context of providing policing in Dublin, Shannon and Cork Airports. [27795/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...retrieving them. Sometimes they will have to be audited and retrieved from a distance away. That is the same with the local authorities. A lot of Kildare County Council's documents are stored in Cork and you have give notice to retrieve them. I know there was a bigger project with Trinity College regarding a different approach to holding records. It would be well worthwhile getting...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...we are an island on the west coast of Europe and that is the reason this has happened. However, prices can be compared between the North and South. If we compare house prices between Belfast and Dublin, Cork and Derry, there is a significant difference. Look at food prices. I do not accept that as an argument and nor do I accept that nothing can be done. This is a Europe-wide,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I have another point relating to University College Cork. The previous Committee of Public Accounts had a number of hearings with universities and third level institutions. There were very high levels of non-compliance or unorthodox transactions and so on. In actual fact, there was a "RTÉ Investigates" report on the issue. It is hugely disappointing to see that pattern still there...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...I wonder if one aspect relates to the other. It does seem like the institution is on a short leash. For that reason, I would put this matter in with what we have heard about the audit in University College Cork. There is an issue with both these institutions. The concern for us in this regard is when we will have representatives from both institutions in before the committee. We will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...in the queue I was in at Citywest were being told only people with appointments would receive a booster. The wait that day was about three and a half hours. The following day it was five hours. Cork City Hall and Croke Park were also reporting long queues. It is, therefore, understandable people would make appointments with their pharmacy instead. Yesterday, the Taoiseach said that in...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...of honour and something of which to be proud, which was deplorable. We are all familiar with the fact that most sex offenders are known to their victims. The annual report from the sexual violence centre in Cork, for example, found that almost nine out of ten victims of rape or sexual assault knew the perpetrator, while 13.2% were raped or sexually assaulted by a stranger. Despite...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...While this Bill deals with how we treat convicted sex offenders, we must first acknowledge the low rate of reporting and conviction of sex crimes. The 2020 annual report of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork, SVCC, found that only one-third of survivors had reported attacks to the Garda, while two-thirds of those contacting the centre for support had not. This indicates a lack of belief...

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...in the country; Meath by 40%; and Kildare by 39%. Fingal, Meath and Kildare absorbed most of the population growth and housing development. Looking at patterns of growth elsewhere, the suburbs of Cork have grown. The part of the county that has come into the city has grown most. In Galway, development is occurring in the suburbs and putting significant pressure on the city centre,...

Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2019 (1 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to another topic relating to the accumulated debts in Waterford, the Institute of Technology, Tralee and the National College of Art and Design. IT Tralee is now joined with Cork Institute of Technology. How is that going to be handled? Will CIT accumulate the debt? How is it intended to reduce the deficit?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...developer. The history of a developer does not seem to translate from one local authority to another. Somebody who had done a terrible job in Kildare could go on to develop an estate in county Cork or Kerry without bringing that history along. Each local authority is almost a satellite from that point of view. What must be examined from a national point of view is how to have a register...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (24 Mar 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the attention of the NTA has been drawn to maintenance issues with the Cork bike share scheme in view of the fact that several stations have been out of commission for over two months; and the date on which the NTA will introduce new bike share stations in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Dublin. [14753/21]

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Catherine Murphy: .... He spoke about the viability of tracks and told the committee that if one considers tracks from the point of view of their performance, including the tote, events and hospitality services, only the stadium in Cork and Shelbourne Park are viable. If, however, one considers the prize money the IGB pays out, no track is viable. Without the funds transferred to the IGB from the Exchequer,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Data (17 Dec 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of cash seized from persons entering or leaving the State by the Revenue Commissioners enforcement unit at Cork and Shannon airports in each of the past three years and to date in 2019; the amount of cash forfeited to the Exchequer in each year; and the amount returned on appeal. [52966/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Data (17 Dec 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated monetary value of contraband seized from persons entering or leaving the State by the Revenue Commissioners enforcement unit at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports in each of the past three years and to date in 2019; the amount of cash forfeited to the Exchequer in each year; and the amount returned on appeal. [52968/19]

Dublin Mid-West By-election: Issue of Writ (7 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the moving of the writs for these by-elections, of which the Social Democrats will contest three, with Sinéad Halpin in Cork North-West, Tracey Carey in Fingal and Anne-Marie McNally in Dublin Mid-West. We have no problem getting women candidates to run, as the Government can see. They are three excellent candidates. I have already been on the doorsteps in Dublin Mid-West....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services Waiting Lists (5 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons and teenagers awaiting psychologist intervention services in counties Wicklow, Dublin, Meath and Cork; the wait time for each district; the number of staff providing services by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45436/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services Waiting Lists (5 Nov 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons and teenagers waiting to see a psychologist in counties Wicklow, Dublin, Meath and Cork; the wait time for each district; the number of staff providing services in tabular form; the number waiting more than 1, 6, 12 and 18 months, respectively by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45448/19]