Results 8,041-8,060 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022) Catherine Murphy: Just in case anyone thinks I have a problem with houses being built in Dublin, I do not. It should not matter where they are; it is a matter of having affordable housing available for people to buy or rent. Looking at the map that HBFI provided that shows the locations of homes funded, I note there were 71 schemes altogether. Of the 71, 45 were in Leinster. Thirty of those were in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022) Catherine Murphy: We need to see the breakdown to gain some understanding.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022) Catherine Murphy: On the momentum fund, was the figure given €94 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022) Catherine Murphy: In setting out the fund, what were the criteria for the upper limit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022) Catherine Murphy: Were criteria not applied to it or an upper limit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022) Catherine Murphy: We are constantly told by the Government, for example, that apartment blocks would not get built without cuckoo funds and institutional investors. There was never an expectation that the State would be the actor; that is the converse of what we are being told. Did HBFI have discussions with the Department on the funding of these particular apartment blocks in advance of doing it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Why is that more than a year ago?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise one item about the greyhound stadium. Mr. McCarthy obviously audits that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. Is the stadium owned by the entity that is audited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It was in the news the weekend before last.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It was about development.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I think there were only two stadia that were able to hold their own in terms of covering their costs, and the Shelbourne stadium was one of those. Do we agree to note the accounts? Is that agreed? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes. Moving to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were not flagged for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Are there any issues with this review? I presume there is no GDPR-related issue in respect of the Revenue and the Department of Social Protection communicating on this matter and that there is alignment there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is useful information. The railway order for DART+ is for the Maynooth line and the Kildare line. They are in a process. One of the issues I raised with the NTA was the prospect of a parallel process for some additional extensions. The argument made by the NTA is that if we were to go back to the beginning the process would be delayed. There is no reason, however, that there could not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: No it is not. We need to be thinking about moving people rather than moving cars around the place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Perhaps we could postpone this item until Deputy Dillon is here, maybe next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: On UL, it has been reported that report is further delayed and may well be subject to some legal scrutiny. I ask that we try to find out what the current position with that is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I will be surprised if it is.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Mar 2022)
Catherine Murphy: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a public services card is still a mandatory and or compulsory requirement to apply for a driving licence; if he and the national driver licence service have received any communications from the Department of Social Protection in respect of its use when applying for a driver licence since that Department withdrew its appeal...