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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to comment on No. 2535.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: When we see non-competitive procurement, it tends to be for one year. However, by virtue of the fact this is put in the “emergency” category, it is not following the usual processes that are very public processes where there is a tender. This is kind of doubly non-compliant because it would be following the normal type of procurement where there would be multiple tenders for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I do not doubt that Department had, and has, an enormous amount to do. Everything has been located in one Department. Even if there has been an increase in staff numbers, they have had to be moved around to make sure that payments were made, where there is a regime around payments being made on time and so on. This should be cross-Government. That is where we will start to see pressure...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount granted to each local authority in respect of anti-littering, clean-up and recycling initiatives in the past five years to date, in tabular form. [18501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were successful at stages 1 and 2 of the Garda trainee application process in the past 20 years; the totality of applicants in the past 20 years to the Garda trainee recruitment programmes; the number of persons that took part in stage 1 of the process over that time period; and the number that took...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were successful at stages 1 and 2 of the Garda trainee application process that were deemed to be generally unsuitable to be offered a place in phase 1 of Garda training in the past 20 years. [18629/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the most up-to-date number of community gardaí deployed each year since 2018, by local authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18611/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of ethnicities, by type and by rank, represented in An Garda Síochána [18627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of ethnicities represented, by type, that applied to the 2024 garda trainee recruitment drive; the date on which it is expected the first batch from the 2024 recruitment pool will proceed to phase one; and the number of successful applicants from 2022/2023 recruitment drives that have yet to be processed forward to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have failed on their first attempt at the Garda trainee fitness test in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the number that subsequently passed the fitness test over that same period on their second attempt. [18660/24]

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am speaking to amendment No. 83, which relates to advertising directly related to charity fundraising activities for not-for-profit organisations. I would like to pick up on Deputy Doherty's point. Palliative care should be paid for out of direct taxation. It should not be down to communities to have to do fundraising for such an essential service. Unfortunately, so many of our...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There are a large number of charities and many of them are performing functions that really are public services. Many if not all of them rely on the ability to fundraise. Very essential services are being provided. It is important to get a balance in all of this. I would be generally supportive of the Bill but we must know exactly, but we cannot have unintended consequences such as ending...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities completed a review into local government last October. I raised this issue in November and have raised it in parliamentary questions subsequently. The report was scathing. It found, not surprisingly, that Ireland has the most centralised system of local decision making and referred to the balance of power between the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sign a letter of intent in respect of a gaelscoil building project (details supplied) in Clondalkin, County Dublin; the reason for the delay in delivering this build; if her attention has been drawn to the duration of time that the school has operated in prefabs; the budget allocated to the delivery of the project and estimated time...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which a building (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare will be ready for pupils to use. [18185/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an exception can be made in respect of a child (details supplied) who has missed the cut off point by one day in terms of eligibility for ECCE year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18370/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Accident Investigations (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of unpublished military air accident investigation reports that exist covering the years 1990 to date in 2024. [17604/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of locations at which 23 noise measuring systems will be located by the DAA as directed by the Airport Noise Competent Authority; the projected annual cost of each installation per location; and if he and or his officials engaged with or consulted with either the DAA and or the ANCA in respect of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drivers disqualified in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, by county; the number who surrendered their licence to the Road Safety Authority in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, following disqualification, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18115/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (23 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 201. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken in respect of the provision of premiums by insurance companies to persons in homes that are not designated as a flood risk; and if his attention has been drawn to instances in which insurance companies are refusing to provide cover in instances in which OPW flood maps clearly identify areas as not being in a flood area. [17554/24]