Results 14,281-14,300 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (21 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the unit price of cable per kilometre in the context of the national broadband plan; the number of optic strands per cable line; the price of infrastructure rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21654/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (21 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the notice that was placed in a national newspaper regarding a licence that was issued to a company (details supplied) to harvest seaweed; if this licence included a permission to mechanically harvest; the area size that is licensed for harvesting by the company; and if he will make a statement...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (21 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: 674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an environmental impact assessment must be undertaken as part of the application for licence and-or prior to commencement of harvesting upon licence being granted in the context of large scale mechanical harvesting of seaweed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21977/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We had a list of topics for that particular day and the national broadband plan was included on it, although we almost could not discuss it. Mr. Watt was quite cross with us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: He was quite cross with the committee that the focus was almost entirely on the national children's hospital. There is merit, while there is a bit of distance, to reconsidering the whole issue of how capital projects are managed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I have many of the same points, but I think it is important to reiterate them. I asked whether the same personnel were involved, and we know now that some of them were. Are we seriously being asked to accept that people were going to be asked, essentially, to disagree with themselves? That is what this is, and it is nonsense. Deputy MacSharry made the point that the thought process in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There are also two court cases. One is a judicial review and the other relates to the environmental levy. It would be no harm to have an idea what the cases are about.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Looking at the amount involved with the environmental levy, it is obviously about a point of principle rather than the individual. The entire levy could be compromised by a decision in that case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: On this issue, we sought information on several matters relating to the national broadband plan, such as the entity, how it changed and who were the people behind it. Did we receive that information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Can we get it? I specifically sought it because the final bidder changed over time. The committee should be able to track each time it changed in order to ascertain who were or are the people behind it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We sought that information and I have been looking out for it, but did not see it arriving. The committee has a work programme. The issue of when we will do the report will probably not appear on that programme. Another committee is doing some work on this area and the work we did may be helpful to it because we largely focused on the metropolitan area networks, MANs, contracts and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Exactly. The extension and the sale without tendering the sale. We heard from other parties that they would have tendered. The fact that Granahan McCourt was the company behind Enet is useful work which should not have to be duplicated by the other committee. That makes it important that we finalise our work in this area. I acknowledge that there is likely to be one further hearing, but...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. We are looking at process and value for money, which is the remit of the committee. One of the things that creates costs in any project is a failure to design it and nail things down at a very early stage. Reading any documentation or report on this, one would have to say that it is almost entirely because of the process that we face such significant...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: On a board where there is particular expertise, say clinical expertise, one does not second-guess it. As such, Mr. Quinn's expertise on procurement was critical in this. He was the influencer on the board where process was concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Quinn came from a public service background.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Where did the idea of the two-phase process come from? Did it come from the board itself? Where within the board was it generated?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Was Mr. Quinn on that subcommittee?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Who chaired it?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I have limited time, as Mr. Quinn knows.