Results 941-960 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: A national speed limit was set and local authorities were supposed to comply with parameters and different types of roads. The speed limit of 80 km/h was routinely used. For example, where locations had a lower speed limit, that was to be increased to 80 km/h. I am not sure that it is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that; I am talking about the legislation that is required.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Dr. Walsh is only getting to the answer to the question I am asking.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: How come the former Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, could go on RTÉ and say it will be in place by the end of the year, and how come Dr. Walsh cannot tell me that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Considering the amount of money, the carnage and the increases in road fatalities and accidents, a reduction would seem like a national priority.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The sharing of data is incredibly important in dealing with that. I would have thought that this was an absolute priority.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We got a statement overnight on the sharing of data, which states it will be done by the end of the year. However, today we have been told it will be done in due course. When I asked Dr. Walsh, I got an inconclusive answer. There was a changeover yesterday, as we know, and the Minister of State became the Minister for Finance. Could we get something more conclusive on this? The phrase "in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We will probably revisit things like the issue of passports because other issues have emerged since HRI was in last week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Perhaps we could also flag with HRI the issue of the kinds of systems that are in place to make sure that racing animals do not end up in the food chain.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. I want to come back in on the issue around the children's museum. I know we have asked those involved to come back with certain information. I think we got the runaround a bit on some issues. There was an agreement for a lease produced early on. That was in 2003. We know there has almost been a kind of mission creep on this. It started out reasonably small. I think it would be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: That is right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There most certainly are. Perhaps we could see the terms of reference and the other documentation. I was nearly afraid I was not asking for the right things because this did not start out and finish up being the same thing. It was in different locations, and I think we have to see the documentation by location. The CHQ building was looked at at one point. Was the scale of it the same at...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It started off with one scale and one location. Then it moved to a different location. Then there is an arbitration. I would like to know who signed off on that and what the document they signed off on is, not what the terms of reference were. Then it moved on to another location. Then there is another arbitration. The terms of reference for that are presumably different from the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It was continuously becoming larger and not what was originally intended. I would like to see those documents. I still cannot get my head around the idea that a charity can hold the OPW to the point where they go into arbitration. It just still-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have been on the PAC a few years now. I do not think I have ever seen anything quite like this.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the invitation. Prior to my election to the Dáil in 2005, I had been a county councillor since 1991 and a town councillor since 1988. If Deputy Canney is feeling old, he can imagine how I am feeling. I have come to the very firm conclusion that there cannot be Oireachtas reform without local government reform. A piecemeal approach cannot be taken; the...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: II will pick up on a point Senator Casey made about the implementation of county development plans. That implementation cannot be divorced from other policies set out elsewhere, for example, strategic housing developments completely bypassing county development plans where things such as the need for schools and other infrastructure, which are about building communities, are measured. We...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the loans charged by investors to National Broadband Ireland and their associated companies were obliged under the contract to go to market for services and procure services are in line with best practices competitive bids for products and services; if his Department allowed or facilitated the investors taking...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to roads policing units; if she will update her Department’s website with publication of figures for the month of May 2024, by Garda division; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27763/24]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This annual motion without change happening in between continues to be completely unsatisfactory. Last year's debate occurred very shortly after the independent review that resulted in both the minority and majority reports being published. That review had been ongoing since 2021, as the Minister stated. The six-member group voted four-two - majority-minority. The independent review group...