Results 19,021-19,040 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: How can one provide oversight if one does not have information? That may well be something that we need to consider in the context of bringing people in. Chairman:Coincidently, last Thursday afternoon I chaired a session of the ETBI's annual conference that was held in Kilkenny and this issue was very paramount. The organisation talked about training that had been provided to various board...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: They are not being apprised. I can say that because I know there is a great degree of frustration.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: When I read this, it seemed similar to something that I had raised in the Dáil this week and on which I have had others contact me with the same profile of complaints. We should get a response from the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It looks like something that we will most definitely need to examine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The report is quite interesting. Page 11-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I just wish to make the point that page 11 states it would have been easier to start with a blank sheet and decide rather than have the criterion that there had to be a previously existing station for reopening to be considered. We must be careful not to stray into the area in which the justice committee most properly would have an involvement. There are costs in picking particular stations...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: -----in Kildare, Meath and a few other places. They are all areas that have had high growth and are now playing catch-up. This is the first time I have seen the census of population used for this purpose. I warmly welcome the idea that we are taking a strategic approach if this is the new approach to the deployment of resources, but it has not happened before. We also must understand what...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. Shanahan for coming. He may be blamed for the lack of balance in the development of industrial policy, but companies decide why they should locate in a particular area. I asked one major industry in my area why it had located there and was told it was because it wanted to be located near a major conurbation with a reverse traffic flow in the city. As it is a wet industry, it...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That would be helpful.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to ask Mr. Shanahan about ConnectIreland. It has been gone through quite a bit already. Mr. Shanahan was asked about the numbers. It is the companies that determine the numbers and I would not dispute that. Is there a length of time the job must have been in place for it to qualify? Does it have to be there for six months or 12 months to qualify as a job that was delivered under...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is there a timeline?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Housing was something that Mr. Shanahan referenced in his opening statement. It is a challenge, irrespective of industrial policy. There are opportunities in the likes of Brexit. Thankfully, the rate of unemployment is falling quite quickly. Successful industrial policy in which we will be investing will probably require us to bring in additional employees. This morning we heard the...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Looking at the educational options and the differentiation in terms of the type of education that, for example, Germany has, where there is a different approach involving half-time apprenticeship and half-time college, is that something that is considered or engaged with? Does IDA conduct skills audits on what is required? Does our education policy, from an industrial perspective, require...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Seamus Healy.

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: While I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak again on the housing issue, we have to ask ourselves how many more times we have to do this before the Government accepts that for all its fancy words and promises there has simply not been enough action. The problems are well known at this stage. We have a problem with affordability, land hoarding, vacant units and security of tenure....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will be briefer than that, because Deputy Clare Daly has asked the question I intended to ask about decriminalisation. Last week we had Mary O'Toole, SC, before the committee and she reminded us that the Supreme Court had set the bar in relation to the balance of rights and there was an equal right to life and that was only called into question in the case of a real and substantial risk to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will divide my time between the two witnesses and I will try to keep to questions. Ms Zampas said abortion laws framed in terms of the four minimum grounds required by international human rights law did not provide effective access. Are there any countries in Europe that list these grounds in their laws and how effective, or not, are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Does Professor Binchy regard health as a human right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Supreme Court has set the bar in relation to the eighth amendment as the right to life. It is only where there is a real and substantive risk to the life of the woman that an intervention can happen. It does not protect her health in pregnancy. How does Professor Binchy square that circle in relation to her human right to health when it is not protected in Irish law?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We have a very short period of time. In essence, Professor Binchy does not accept the right to health of a woman in a situation where she is pregnant and there is a risk to her health.