Results 61-64 of 64 for 5 million speaker:Catherine Murphy

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Oct 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...some dialogue is under way between the Departments. It may well be dependent on this legislation but I am unsure about that. However, the point is the aforementioned records actually are online, up to 1958, on the website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In an amazing irony, one can go outside the country to do the research and I am unsure whether people always...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

Catherine Murphy: ...political issue. PAYE, PRSI and the universal social charge almost take the form of a solidarity tax but the problem is that there is no return for most of those who pay these. We are informed that 45% of private patients in public beds are treated in this way. How did these people end up in public beds? It seems that many of them are put in such beds because they were taken to...

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...relating to some of the legislation he previously brought forward to clear the backlog. Is there also a wallchart to show where the issues are arising? Our population has grown from 3.6 million to well over 5 million in the past 25 years, but our systems and services have not grown at the same pace. Many of the services are stretched and our society has also changed considerably in...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...in the US contributed to the most dramatic period of prison expansion ever recorded, where the national prison population grew from approximately 300,000 in the early 1970s to approximately 2.3 million people today, disproportionately impacting in particular the black and Hispanic communities. America has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the prison population. One in seven...