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Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...It is possible to get one's head around some of the things that are rushed, but this Bill has potentially very serious consequences and I am not satisfied at all with being told that it is like a pat on the head and that it will only affect a tiny number of people. I am not satisfied with that because the principle is the critical issue. I do not see how it is fair to ask us to go...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...be a location that is not deemed to be the State. We are told it will not be a detention camp. What if people leave and get the bus into town? Are they suddenly "here"? We are being given a pat on the head and told they will not be detention centres. I want to see the detail of something like that because there is the potential for real infringement of rights of people who are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (11 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...the civil society petition that was prepared by four leading human rights organisations, namely, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, the Committee on the Administration of Justice, the Pat Finucane Centre and Fair Trials. It was delivered to the Minister in September. Has she had the opportunity to go through that? It is a well-argued petition on why an inquiry is necessary....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Catherine Murphy: This relates to Pat Hickey and the ticketing scandal at the time. We were given €312,000 as the grand total for the Moran inquiry. Are there further third-party fees or is that the end of it? Can we ask that?

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...group by sex for rent offers because they are seen as the most vulnerable. Chantal arrived in Ireland last October to start a new career and shared her experiences with the Irish Examinerand "The Pat Kenny Show". Three people asked her for sex in lieu of rent. She said she was really upset, disgusted and afraid. She is here alone, without family, and was facing this. She felt hopeless...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...number of things the Government is doing, including changes to the budget and the forthcoming €100 credit, as making a meaningful difference to people. It is frankly a bit insulting for the Tánaiste to pat himself on the back in the context of the core social welfare rates and pensions, which were increased by €5. The Government was warned before the budget that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...and relies instead on people doing more of the same. People are losing hope. They are dejected and increasingly feel the Government is not in control, that there is a half-hearted approach, a pat on the head and to keep to the level 5 strategy. It is not convincing people. People are openly saying this is the worst Government we have ever had at a time when we need a Government to pull...

National Development Plan: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ...no expectation that it would run to a subsidy of up to about €3 billion. However, due to the chaos and mishandling of this Government's approach to both the tendering process and the deal itself, we have seen the cost of delivering the national broadband plan escalate. When it was first announced by the then Minister, Pat Rabbitte, it was somewhere in the region of €350...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I have reminded myself of some of the main findings of the Moran report on the debacle. The report stated, about Pat Hickey, that: "his style of leadership was characterised by strong personal control over decision making ... it was an autocratic style of leadership ... there was an over-dependence on the power of one individual ... The Inquiry had a concern at a possible absence of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (16 Apr 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ...will now refer to the Jonathan Hall report. There is a relationship between what has happened in FAI and what was said about the importance of the then president of the Olympic Council of Ireland Pat Hickey to the OCI and how it was vital to have this person on the OCI. The Olympic Council of Ireland has been transformed. There is an idea that one person is absolutely central to the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Meetings (6 Nov 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 471. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Minster of State, Deputy Pat Breen, has met with broadband providers and/or telecoms providers in the past three years, to date; if she will provide a schedule of the meetings he has had, including company names, location of meetings and persons present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45000/18]

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...the previous consortia cited regulatory and governance issues. It is important that we get to that. I also echo the point made about probity in connection with the Minister of State, Deputy Pat Breen. We have to hear from the Taoiseach on that. Gone are the days when decisions were made based on personal relationships. We put systems in place for very good reasons. Those systems...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yesterday I listened to a segment on "The Pat Kenny Show" on Dublin traffic. Last night, "Prime Time" covered the same issue. Increasingly, the lack of capacity in public transport is raised in the context of what is becoming a very significant congestion problem. In the past week alone, a number of buses have been diverted to try to alleviate the traffic chaos that is fast becoming the...

Other Questions: Olympic Council of Ireland (28 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...really important that is the case. It is one thing ensuring money for the athletes; the administration which allows that to happen is another. It is my information, on 27 June, that the trial of Pat Hickey and Kevin Mallon in Brazil is not even scheduled, and may not happen for a very long time. There is big queue because of some unrest. I know that €1.5 million has been...

European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...and one that may well increase in the wake of Brexit unless we strongly take control of the situation and refuse to continue what has become a culture of kowtowing to the EU and being pacified with pats on the head. Mr. Tusk’s remarks also referred to his belief that things have changed for the better in the European Union and that there is now renewed hope in the European...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...that was provided for recruits and, for example, to Deputy Commissioner Rice's attitude to what that money was for. In fact, I asked Ms Anne Marie McMahon, whose rank I cannot recall, and Mr. Pat McCabe about this and they were both of the opinion that this money was for more than the upkeep of the members in relation to the restaurant. That must have come from somewhere. Mr. Kelly's...

US Executive Order on Immigration: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: .... He was elected, and whether we like it or not, that will be the scenario unless something intervenes in the coming four years. It is obvious that the Taoiseach will travel to Washington for St. Patrick's Day but it is regrettable that he will do so without a motion that could be commonly agreed by this Dáil. Deputy Róisín Shortall and I, along with others, having regard...

Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)

Catherine Murphy: ...Regulatory Authority was established and just last week, seven years after the legislation was enacted, that the Minister confirmed she will commence Part 4, which confers investigative powers on the regulator. During his speech introducing the Charities Bill 2007, the then Minister of State, Pat Carey, said "the Government is committed to protecting both charitable organisations and the...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Catherine Murphy: ...need to do if we are to invest in the housing stock and achieve a more stable housing sector. If we keep saying that everything is grand when it is not, all we will continue to get is a collective pat on the head. Some other areas are not stated as well as they should be, for example, the area of congestion and our climate commitments. Congestion and our ability to deal with it because...

Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...documentation that was furnished to me when I had discussions with the people involved. I recently read some articles from 19th-century newspapers on the Punchestown races, including a report that detectives were dispatched from Dublin Castle to Punchestown, which provides a sense of the longevity of the sport in Kildare. The county has been known as the thoroughbred capital for a...