Results 13,081-13,100 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Murphy: That is where it gets its income. It does not get any funding other than from these 8,000 greyhounds.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Murphy: That is where its primary income comes from.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Murphy: However, it does by virtue of the fact the State recognises the responsibility it has in-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Murphy: Given the precarious nature of small newspapers, it would surprise me if it was a very large amount of money. In regard to the forestry sector, why did the Department not do a cost-benefit analysis at an earlier stage? Given the length of the period from 2014 to 2019, midway would strike me as an obvious time to carry this out, given it was not making the strides it needed to make. To go...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Murphy: What is the national target for forestry cover?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Murphy: Why is our target below the EU average?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Catherine Murphy: In terms of funding policy, we know there are grants available to farmers, and that is fine. What funding is available for non-farming sectors? Are bodies like Coillte funding themselves or is it done through local authority lands, or possibly through the Land Development Agency with land banks that might exist?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (24 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal system in view of the fact that some aspects of questioning may have an effect of retraumatising victims (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43854/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a petition regarding stage 3 melanoma (details supplied); the actions he plans to take regarding the points raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44048/19]
- Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. In addition to the work of the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, the Committee of Public Accounts also did work on the NBP and its forerunner the metropolitan area network, MAN, contracts. The main concern is how the State will fund the system and if, when complete, it will be handed over to a private...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants who retired and or exited employment in the public service in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43673/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if orders have been placed for carriages that can meet the requirement in the context of European guidelines regarding minimum spaces on trains for bikes; if not, if this requirement will be part of the tendering (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43706/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocations to local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, in 2018 and from 1 January to 31 August 2019; the amounts that were directed towards the various headings of the off-site infrastructures that were funded; the amount set for LIHAF in Budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43698/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Who owns the document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I am agreeable to the suggestion but the matter is just whether we can get it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Could we ask to see if there is an impediment or whether such evidence would be forthcoming?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Should we be in public session if we are dealing with correspondence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That is grand. I was looking at the wrong screen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Actually, there is an issue with regard to the independence. I know the Bill involves a short technical amendment but there is a wider issue about the independence of marine accident investigations. It may well be that we might seek to expand the Bill. There may be some merit in pre-legislative scrutiny to widen it. It is very important when a report is written by a marine accident...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: If we are doing pre-legislative scrutiny I would have thought it gives us scope.