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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle did.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: As I said last night, it would have been preferable if this was included on Second Stage and we dealt with it at committee level but, obviously, the process is required because there was a need to make sure this set of amendments were legally sound. We had patience with that because of the origin of this issue. This is not something that was dreamt up because people were looking for...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Instruction to Committee (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously I am a member of the committee which debated this Bill. We debated it at pre-legislative stage and then it went through Second Stage and Committee Stage. We knew the aforementioned amendment was coming but as there were some difficulties in ensuring it was technically correct, we are seeing it at quite a late stage, which we had expected. It is not the ideal way to introduce an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a petition by persons (details supplied); if these matters will be raised at a conference at the end of April 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17602/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in the form of one school with junior and senior schools will be reconsidered in view of the successful temporary arrangement with respect to the schools in advance of the completion of the new school buildings; if so, the way in which it will be approached; if not, the reason therefor; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the issue of a junior and senior school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be revisited in advance of the opening of the school buildings; if so, the way in which to achieve this; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17462/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) regarding a contractor entering into examinership and the consequences for a project in Maynooth, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17461/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Data (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out in tabular form the compensation payments made by the Irish Prison Service to inmates and persons on remand in 2016 and 2017 by amount paid; the general nature of each claim made for the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Meetings (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the engagements he has had to date with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the use of phase 2 of the National Indoor Arena that is due for completion in mid-2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17630/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the number of unauthorised developments local authorities are dealing with are monitored by his Department; if so, the details of same by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17416/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I echo many of those comments. The counties of Meath, Kildare and Wicklow have a greater combined population than the whole county of Cork. That is not appreciated. The model for distributing resources dates back to four censuses ago and does not factor in more recent ones. We were told on the day that questions could not be answered because the Minister was imminently going to make an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: No, it was in regard to ghost estates that required funding to be finished.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: To make them safe and then for some to be sold on. If it was possible to recoup some of that money-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It has not been followed up to the extent that it should. There are a couple of quite important issues dealt with in this document. We should hold it over and come back to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Money from this fund was used on very few unfinished estates in Kildare because there were strict criteria governing the estates that qualified.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There were four different tests. They should be easy to isolate. Some estates might have been demolished but others were sold.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There are a few aspects about which I am curious. Based on the analysis we have been given, more was paid out than taken in during 2014. Is there a residual fund?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: By the autumn, we will have forgotten about that correspondence. Will the Chairman remind us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We are also waiting for the Thorn report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Beausang says there are plans for a good deal of activity on this in 2018. Has the Department mapped out the outcomes of this? What can we expect to see in 2018 and 2019? Mr. Beausang spoke of the cost. Can he indicate what sums are involved and over what period? Where does this fall within the pecking order of the Department's work? Is it high priority? Are other things ahead of...