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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will stop Mr. Loftus there. I know these things well. A site in Celbridge under the control of NAMA was identified in 2017. There is St. Raphael’s special school. These are the most vulnerable children. It is not a question of adding an extra classroom to an existing school, rather this is one-to-one care. The school is falling down around the staff and pupils. St....

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am sure it will be one of several examples, but in those situations, can the Department fast forward through the design processes?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: On the July or summer provision, the children of St. Raphael’s will not be able to go to summer camps. The application was made for July provision and it was refused because the minimum is two weeks and they could only provide a week. Surely something is better than nothing. It seems extraordinary that the Department states it is going after schools to try to get more schools...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: But the Department refused.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I do accept it was for a month and I can understand why. How much of the increase in spending in 2022 on school buildings was due to the cost of inflation or to accelerated construction? Was it almost exclusively inflation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Every year where I live there is a scrap for school places. Sometimes schools are asked to accommodate additional students and prefabs can be put in at fairly short notice for them. Presumably there is some budget for this every year. Will the witnesses give us an indication of this particular aspect where each year the Department must provide at a late stage for the accommodation of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It has been said that Wicklow and Kildare are in a red zone. What other counties are in this red zone?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Where are the flashpoints?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Can I ask a quick question?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We know Caranua was a finite organisation and it has completed its work. There are, however, still a small number of outstanding clients. There is one particular gentleman in Limerick who had a builder walk out of the site and it has been a building site for the past few years. Are there others like that? When do the witnesses expect to have in place the legislation needed to wind Caranua...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Is that the only case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to instances of flights being impacted by GPS spoofing and-or jamming in Irish-controlled airspace in 2022, 2023 or to date in 2024; and if he and or his officials have engaged with the Irish Aviation Authority, the Department Of Defence and-or An Garda Síochána in respect of same over that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (16 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide this Deputy with a soft copy of an opinion paper (details supplied) in respect of a property in Leixlip, County Kildare. [22272/24]

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The number of people killed in incidents on our roads is an issue of major concern for all of us. Speed, together with the consumption of alcohol or drugs and distractions such as mobile telephone use, is most definitely a factor in some collisions. The reduction in the numbers involved in the traffic corps over the past few years rather than in increase is relevant when we consider...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (15 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the provisions she has put in place to reduce food waste in the context of the school hot meals initiative; if she engaged with specialists in the area of nutritional value ahead of rolling out the initiative; and her views on whether the initiative is targeted appropriately. [22002/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I raise the issue of services being rationed by the HSE. The executive will only provide one therapy at a time. Let us take, for example, a child who is neurodivergent and requires several therapies, such as occupational and speech and language therapies. That child will not get parallel services even if they are vital to his or her needs. If a child goes onto a children's disability...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (14 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and/or the RSA have undertaken a data impact assessment in respect of plans to use speed cameras and or other types of camera to detect motorists who are using their phones while in control of a vehicle on a public roads. [21511/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (14 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will point to the legislative provision that permits the use of fixed cameras to detect and penalise motoring offences that are not defined as exceeding existing speed limits. [21513/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: An Garda Síochána (14 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the Irish motor insurance database application to be rolled out to all Garda members on their mobility devices to include access to information on fleet and motor trader vehicles, with real time information on the vehicles; the reason for the delay in including information on fleet and motor trader vehicles to date;...