Results 41-60 of 64 for 5 million speaker:Catherine Murphy

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...Bord Gáis to service boilers. According to Sierra's managing director the company began hiring water meter specialists in mid 2011. Siteserv was haemorrhaging cash and owed IBRC and the taxpayer €150 million, yet was planning for the future which involved water metering. On 26 July 2013, a Sierra joint venture, GMC Sierra, won three contracts, worth €62 million each,...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...it stated that it should be assumed that the company will be acquired on a debt free and cash free basis, yet I have had strong indications that when Siteserv was sold to Millington it had €10 million on its balance sheet, a combination of cash and debtors, something which has to be inquired into. We now know that Millington paid €40 million to IBRC and €5 million...

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Operations (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: ...of bids and that Millington received a letter from the aforementioned Mr. Richard Woodhouse informing it that it needed to change its bid if it was to be considered in the second round. Millington added a €5 million cash sweetener for the shareholders to the bid and Millington was successful. The memo I got through freedom of information today again reiterates the point and the...

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...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...have also been hidden away as it is only relatively recently that they started to become vocal. People in the direct provision system should not have to survive the State. Approximately 70 million people claim Irish ancestry. Ireland has not failed in terms of distributing its population to other countries. Many Irish people were not treated well abroad. The way in which Irish people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (13 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 23. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 20 March 2013, if he will indicate the reason the €20 million ring-fenced in the 2013 national service plan for the recruitment of 250 primary care posts has not been fully drawn down; if he will provide an update on the placement of new therapy posts to primary care teams across the four Health Service...

Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: ...Ireland is that it has been relatively easy for parties to raise funds from private sources without disclosing them, thereby defeating the purpose of the regime in the first place... In spite of parties declaring over €10 million in campaign expenditure for the 2007 general election, just over €1 million was disclosed in donations. That is according to a SIPO report of 2008....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pyrite Issues (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons a contribution from industry stakeholders was not ultimately included in the final agreed remediation scheme for pyrite damaged homes; if he has asked the industry for a voluntary contribution; if he will provide an estimate of the total cost to successfully remediate a house in the most seriously affected...

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...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: ...have pushed more people over the edge and into mortgage distress. We have seen massive write-downs for big borrowers, the most recent example being Independent News and Media, to the tune of €138 million. The arrangement involves the lenders taking a stake in that business, including AIB and Bank of Ireland. There was much talk of swapping debt for equity in people's homes at the...

Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Exemptions (26 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: ...for the household charge, who were talked into putting their names on the database to claim an exemption from the household charge, would continue to be exempt. The amount of work done for the €5 million is valuable but very insignificant compared to the overall problems on some of these estates. The Minister has not taken into account the fact that some of these estates have...

Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Exemptions (26 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: ...House and in advance of the list of exemptions or before we had an opportunity to talk to the pyrite remediation panel. It was like dynamite when the news came through last week that only about 5,000 houses, substantially below the number exempt from the household charge, would qualify for an exemption from property tax. In my constituency, for example, 17 estates were exempt from the...

Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that. The sum does not include the €5 million that goes to the political parties-----

Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: That does not include the €5 million that goes to the political parties, and which was not reduced by 17% when 17% of first preferences did not go to political parties. It does not include the 78 staff to run the Oireachtas. Let us, therefore, have an honest debate about this. Most, if not all, members of the Technical Group, including me, and the Independents have no difficulty with...

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "5.—Section 17(1)(b) (as inserted by section 50(c) of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001) of the Act of 1997 is amended by substituting "by all candidates" for "by candidates of all qualified parties".". There are four streams of funding for politicians and political life in this country. First, all...

Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I understood there would be a 4 cent or 5 cent reduction in the cost of fuel and a quarterly review. I understand the cost of what is proposed is somewhere in the region of €150 million. I could be slightly wrong but I know the figure is substantial. I acknowledge there is a serious problem. There is no doubt that the cost of getting to work has become much more expensive and the cost of...

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Mar 2012)

Catherine Murphy: ...aspects of the Bill that are welcome. I thank the Minister for including an amendment I proposed last year and which he referred to in his opening statement. It relates to section 28(a) in Part 5 of the Bill and allows for both decreases and increases, which is welcome. I am very pleased the Minister took this suggestion on board. I also am pleased that some of the Moriarty tribunal...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (15 Nov 2011)

Catherine Murphy: ...137: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most recent information available to him from the Revenue Commissioners on the number of Irish citizens whose annual income exceeds €1 million; if he will give further details of the most recent information on the number of Irish citizens whose combined assets exceed €5 million in net worth; the total amount of income tax...

Written Answers — National Housing Development Survey: National Housing Development Survey (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: ...housing estates, on a county basis, that are under construction and not yet taken in charge by local authorities; if they have been deemed to be ghost estates for the purpose of availing of the €5 million fund; the new measures that he will take to get completion of those estates, particularly where all houses are completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21646/11]

Written Answers — National Housing Development Survey: National Housing Development Survey (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 239: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has agreed with local authorities the ghost estates that will avail of the €5 million fund; the location of those estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21647/11]