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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It was right across Department. I return now to Mr. Gleeson's reference to Brexit. In 2017, the Department started recruiting people specifically on that issue. Is that a specific section or is it a cross-departmental recruitment approach? Will Mr. Gleeson give a window into the planning?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The Department has employed some staff but will be required to employ more.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There is some time to plan, in case there is a hard Brexit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I turn to something not specifically in the Department's accounts, namely, the Land Commission records. It is a bit of a hobby horse of mine and a treasure trove of wonderful genealogical value that is hidden away in a facility in Portlaoise. I understand some of them are working documents, while others are fragile. Nevertheless, they are an historical treasure trove. How much does the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Has the Department considered digitising those records?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I turn to the offices leased in Athenry and Rosslare. One of the leases is close to expiry. Is the Department in the process of renewing the lease? If so, I understand that commercial sensitivity might be associated with it. At meetings of the committee, the value of purchase versus lease frequently arises. Is that being considered?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (20 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has been consulted regarding the cost-benefit analysis study that Dublin Port Company commissioned to examine if an investment in berths at North Wall Quay is made; his plans to make a contribution to the cost-benefit analysis in the context of making Dublin a cruise destination as a home port or stop over destination; and if he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: In many ways, it is a matter of how it is interrogated. For example, there is a fundamental difference between this and the handling of NAMA, where the Comptroller and Auditor General has a role. There are staff from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General embedded in NAMA. There is a degree of transparency regarding asset disposal owing to interrogation by a committee of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a committee of inspection in respect of IBRC; his plans to include on that committee independent non-departmental officials and external persons with the appropriate expertise; if he envisages a role for the Comptroller and Auditor General in this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25813/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: This question relates to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, the combination of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, and how the special liquidation is supervised. It is supervised in the Department of Finance and I am seeking the Minister's views on establishing a committee of inspection into IBRC to increase transparency and accountability.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IBRC Liquidation (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I remember the night in February 2013, as will the Minister, when we were presented with a Bill at 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock at night. We hardly had time to read it and it passed all Stages by 5 o'clock the following morning. Clearly, this issue and other issues were not afforded the kind of scrutiny they would otherwise have been given because the legislation had to be enacted before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I apologise as I was longer than anticipated elsewhere. There was a row and a suspension, and another row.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Those are the joys of trying to be in two places at once. Many of us who have been dealing with the transport issue for a long time want action. Some of us have seen good plans in the past. We went into that in an enthusiastic way, for example, in a deliberative forum. When the Dublin Transportation Initiative was rolled out in the early 1990s, both Deputy Eamon Ryan and I were on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: An advisory panel and we put great time and energy into what contained some good provisions when it came out. My view on plans now is predicated on that enthusiasm and what happened. There was consideration of where people lived and scenario testing, and we examined the worst-case scenario where we were to have higher densities in the city centre and linkages with public transport, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We also need to know how they propose to do fund their proposals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We are dealing with the aviation sector because the likes of Ryanair is headquartered here. I recall this issue was discussed a short time ago by the Committee of Public Accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Advancing the Low-Carbon Transition in Irish Transport: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: No. We were told it is about where the company is based. That needs to be examined. The headquarters here is important from that point of view.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Treatment of Former Garda (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Which one of us who is a parent does not treasure moments such as a first smile, word, step or day at school, the big and little moments, which can never be recovered for either Majella Moynihan or her son, David? Even when I spoke to her earlier today, she reiterated that the totality of what happened ruined her life. I particularly want to compliment RTÉ and the "Documentary on One",...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Treatment of Former Garda (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I would appreciate an answer to my question on when the Minister or his predecessor knew about this case. It is important that the Garda Commissioner also answers that question. I have spoken to Majella Moynihan and she has been seeking her papers and quietly seeking an apology since 2005. It is only now that the case has come into the public arena that it is getting the attention it...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Properties (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of land purchased and leased, by size and amount expended, in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount expended per year in cases in which land is leased. [25392/19]