Results 561-580 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I just noted in my inbox, and I am sure all members probably got one, an invitation to visit the national children's hospital. I want to visit when it is finished. I do not need to see a construction site. I want to see children in beds in the hospital. This letter is dated 18 July. I do not understand why the sanction was not used earlier, to be perfectly honest. There has been a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: My interpretation is that some countries have been deemed safe but that there are occasional exceptions within them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I do not think that is difficult to figure out. There are regions within countries that are deemed safe that the Department of Foreign Affairs advises people not to go to.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Neither have I.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It could also be based on your political opinions.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We have dealt with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: What number was it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Many problems have arisen.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: When we are dealing with the OPW, will we flag that we also want to raise issues in regard to the National Concert Hall and the children's science museum?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I think that is for the Department of agriculture.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify the identity of the main contractor on installation of a project overseen by the OPW (details supplied). [37154/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (19 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he or Enterprise Ireland have taken to safeguard the future of a State entity (details supplied); the amount expended to date on resolving issues that have arisen, including problems with non-compliance, and the expected overall cost to rectify; and the actions that have been undertaken to establish who bears...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will be as brief as I can, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am not a member of the committee but I thank the Cathaoirleach very much for giving me the opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Cathaoirleach. We all knew both the IBRC and NAMA would be wound down at some point. We are talking about the circumstances which allowed that to happen. I always take issue with the term "profit". If the loans were transferred to NAMA at par value, you would be talking about profit, but when talking about loans handed over with a very significant haircut, the word "surplus"...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We are talking about a very small number of records transferring in the context of this legislation. Mr. Carville is telling me that despite the pain felt by the public, they will never actually have an opportunity to get some sort of historical overview of what happened. There would be records there to provide a chronology of that but they will be destroyed. Have the records prior to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I find it extraordinary, given the pain that people felt, that they are not going to, at any point, be able to see some of the records. I understand that people's names and certain personal details could not be released but I do not understand why even a general range of things or some of the records relating to some of the biggest transactions would not be held for at least a period of time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. I might pursue that in a different direction. Mr. Carville talked about other jurisdictions and how NAMA was constructed. There were obviously flaws in the legislation in that there were people who may well have been a director. There was certainly a difficulty with the definitions in the legislation. On the face of it, there are people who got back control of their assets. Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We all probably hope that something like this will not happen again. However, it is important to make sure we learn some lessons from it in terms of deficiencies. I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It would require change in other legislation to stop that from happening, and that would have a bearing on liquidations generally. Is that what Mr. Carville is saying? Could it be specific to particular liquidations?