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- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: This is going to be hard to solve. I have an issue with this. If you are going to keep a thatched cottage as it is in the old-fashioned way, that is fine. However, there are difficulties involved in modernising houses and then putting thatched roofs on them. If we are honest, there are fire dangers involved. I do not know how we can get around or manage that but it is one of the things...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: We do not want to lose our heritage, by the way.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: We should forward the correspondence to the petitioner and see what she reverts to us with.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: What happened there? It was not clear.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: The petitioner did not get a copy of the reply from the Minister. Is that correct?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: The reply was there but it did not go to the petitioner.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I am not blaming anybody.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: Should we not wait for the reply?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: We are waiting, however, for a response from the petitioner. Would it not be better to wait for her to reply and then set that date?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I thought the recommendation was to forward the correspondence to the petitioner and await a reply. Now we are saying we are going to bring in the petitioner on 9 November.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: No, it is fine. I just thought that at yesterday's private session, we agreed something else, but now we have added a plan for 9 November. Perhaps I missed that yesterday and we did agree on 9 November.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: We are now saying we are going to bring in the petitioner on 9 November.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: It does not matter to me.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I will not object.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: That is fair enough. That was all I wanted.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: That is fine.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: We have difficulties in this area and we need to work with it. The money is available for carers at the moment and we do not have the carers, so it is really important that the Department gets its act together on that and smooths it out as quickly as possible.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: I am quite familiar with this subject. It is close to my area. A lot of work goes on with greenways and people fighting to get railway lines restored. It is important to listen to these people. I wish a good afternoon to the gentlemen who are present. We should indicate to them that we would be prepared to let them make their case before the committee in the not too distant future....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Eugene Murphy: We have no objection to letting them come before the committee; none whatsoever.