Results 1-20 of 808 for examine speaker:Catherine Murphy

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I raised this issue earlier this year with the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath. He accepted that I made a fair point and undertook to have the issue re-examined. It relates to a judgment of the European Court of Justice in 2022 relating to public access to the register of beneficial ownership of companies. As Minister for Finance, he signed a statutory instrument, SI...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...accompanied by Ms Irena Grzebieniak, deputy director of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. This morning, we will engage with representatives from the Office of Public Works to examine the appropriation accounts of 2023, Vote 13, and the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023 - chapter 4, adapting flood risk management to climate change impacts, and chapter...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...She is accompanied by Mr. Leonard McKeown, deputy director at the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. This morning we will engage with representatives of the Charities Regulator to examine the financial statements from 2023 of the Charities Regulator and the financial statements 2023 of the charity funds. We are joined by the following representatives from the Charities...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The first one is the examination of the appropriation of public moneys to RTÉ and its expenditure. It has been suggested that the Government brings RTÉ back under the statutory remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Obviously, we will get an update on that. That was a recommendation from the Committee of Public Accounts in addition to the expert advisory group the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the rights and entitlements a person made in respect of pension contributions (details supplied). [40580/24]

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...people should hold. The marine accident investigation unit is to be provided with extensive powers, including the power to initiate investigations and the rights to use reasonable force to gain entry and require medical examinations of persons. These are extensive powers and responsibilities, yet the Bill is silent on the qualifications or backgrounds of the investigators who will use...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Conclusion of IBRC Special Liquidation and Dissolution of NAMA Bill: Department of Finance (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...many others on the list. I remember getting a very heavily redacted document that stated a number of very large transactions were poorly prosecuted. What is the possibility of those records being examined by scholars, journalists, and members of the public? What timeframe are we talking about? Maybe I could ask a second question when Mr. Carville has responded.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...to bring to the attention of the taxi regulator issues of serious charges, such as those faced by Raymond Shorten? Does a taxi driver who is charged have an obligation in this regard? This must be examined fully and it is essential that both the Minister for Justice and the taxi regulator urgently review it. The Minister has already told us she is doing that, which I welcome. I want...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...feeling. I have come to the very firm conclusion that there cannot be Oireachtas reform without local government reform. A piecemeal approach cannot be taken; the broad political spectrum has to be examined. Otherwise, all we will get are tweaks. Our political system is far too centralised. There it too much localism at the national level. There is a power imbalance in local...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will read back to the Minister of State one line that he read. He stated: The HSE public dental service also provides oral examination and treatment identified as necessary for children at three intervals, at ages six to eight years, 11 to 16 years and subject to capacity, nine to 11 years. Why are we hearing from parents and on the doors that children in certain locations have never...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...recommendations made in the two reports. The Mazars report found an additional €674,000 sloshing around. An updated of the legislation relating to the Comptroller and Auditor General is being examined by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. Where is that at and is it anticipated that the existing legislation will be amended?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 326. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-examine an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person based on the new information provided (details supplied). [20740/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...we ended up with an unreliable service. People were very happy with the timetable but then there were no-shows and quite a lot of buses turning up late. If we take that as an example, did the NTA examine whether it could deliver the service? People were happy with the timetable but then it was not supported with delivery. Fines are not enough. In fact, we do not want fines; we want...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (1 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 293. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists, per CHO area nationally, as of 25 April 2024; and the number of persons under the age of 18 years waiting to be examined by a dentist in the public dentistry waiting list, by CHO region. [19686/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (1 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under the age of 13 years who have been referred from the school dental programme for children to a dentist for further examination and or procedures in 2023 and to date in 2024, by CHO region; the number in the waiting list, by CHO region; and the average time in each CHO to be seen by a dentist. [19688/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: -----when you examine the cost–benefit outcome by comparison with the high-end investment required when failure happens.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ..., one of the four told The Journalthat passersby told him that attacks happened regularly in the area and that "the doctor said that these incidents happen a few times a week". In August, the same publication examined the CSO statistics on recorded crime in the Dublin central north and south districts. The article quoted Deirdre Healy, director of the institute of criminology and criminal...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...for a review of the organisational culture, which I presume was of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. What prompted that? Was it published, and did it examine the purpose of the Department?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...for Finance the value of counterfeit prescription drugs and narcotics seized by customs officials at privately owned and State airports and ports of entry and exit that were passed to the HPRA for examination; and if he will provide the information in tabular form, by location, item and value, for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [40692/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Customs and Excise (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...veterinary prescription drugs and animal growth hormones seized by customs officials at privately owned and State airports and ports of entry and exit that were passed to his Department for examination; and if he will provide the information in tabular form, by location, item and value, for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [40693/23]