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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: It would be a lower value.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: Would it be significantly lower?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: It is fair to say the known involvement of the State in purchasing land tends to increase the value of the land.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: If it is disposed of afterwards, the valuation can go downwards.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: It is above the specification needed. The witness has said part of the woodland is being used. Does Mr. Bourke foresee a scenario whereby the farmland aspect of the property would be part of the centre of excellence?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: When the Department intervened in 2005 and informed the OPW that Garda requirements could be met more effectively through purchase, it identified somewhere else that was worth €500,000. Who was making the decisions at that stage? What control had the OPW over this? Was it just acting as an agent?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: My time is very short.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: I saw that. The Committee of Public Accounts report from July 2017 contains a number of aspects quite critical of the OPW. One of the conclusions we made was that the fact the Garda college was leasing land from the OPW highlights a very worrying weakness in the management of State assets. It was indicated that Dromard farm may well have an impact on the Garda Vote. Did it have such an...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) Catherine Murphy: Another conclusion from the report earlier this year was that four of the 19 recommendations in the Garda College implementation plan can be considered completed. Some progress has been made since but they are not all completed. Is the witness satisfied with progress to date? We were very dissatisfied with the speed of implementation.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: The old saying, "Not in my back yard", applies in this context. It is sickening and in no small way ironic that the House should debate this motion on a day when homeless statistics were published showing that the problem is not being solved. This will not come as a surprise to most people. Increasingly, Departments and business premises are taking measures to prevent homeless people from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: This is a two-pronged process, of which the Citizens' Assembly was the first element. We were asked to consider the report and recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on the eighth amendment of the Constitution and to report in turn to both Houses of the Oireachtas. Our brief does not say anything more than that. At the beginning, we decided that we would not repeat the Citizens'...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: On a point of order, I would also have liked to have put a list of matters-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: -----on the agenda in order to have them dealt with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I resent that. I have sat here for every hour of this committee. The Senator should tell me that he is doing the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: We have been told that there is a 14-1 split in the context of witnesses. I suspect that those witnesses will not be happy with Senator Mullen deciding what their position is. They are academics who have been peer reviewed and who are appearing before us to give facts, and they could challenge some of the things being said. It is unfair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: I will divide my time between this and the next session. Perhaps the Chairman will tell me when five minutes is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: It is very clear. Dr. Lohr would not describe the UK system as an on-demand system given that women have to go through a rigorous regime of meeting with two medics before an abortion can take place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Dr. Lohr has spoken of how the criminalisation is done differently in this area. What information does Dr. Lohr have on the impact this has had in respect of medical care and the medical profession in the UK, given that it remains in the background?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: In her opening statement Dr. Lohr spoke about the rate of abortion in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws is comparable with that in countries with more liberal frameworks. Dr. Lohr referenced that research. Some people in Ireland argue that by virtue of the fact Ireland has the eighth amendment in the Constitution - even though there are other amendments that permit travel and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.