Results 101-120 of 986 for long speaker:Catherine Murphy

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...story. If we recall the situation that pertained prior to this reform being introduced, it is easy to measure the contrast. It is not perfect, however, and reforms are needed but it has gone a long way in reducing costs and waiting times for people seeking compensation for personal injuries. It has created an intermediary process between claimants and the courts, requiring people to...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...It is clear that people needed to get some significant help from the Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Michael McGrath, when they got to their feet yesterday, but was it the right assistance and will it help in the long term? Were the unprecedented sums that have been spent targeted at the people who most need it? As the dust settles and the numbers are crunched, it is becoming clear to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. O'Loughlin has been answering queries about the long-running saga we have had here regarding CCTV so the buck stops with him regarding that. Am I correct in saying that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: So it is a long time ago. It is 2021.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Horse Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (22 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There were fairly high-profile articles in the newspapers earlier this year, and Paul Kimmage was the author of one very long article which related to a question mark about doping in the sport. Another Oireachtas committee looked at this and it had looked at it in advance. I know a report was done by Dr. Suann from New South Wales and recommendations were made. Have all of those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...invasion of Ukraine which is causing so much death, destruction and suffering. While it is welcome that the EU is now moving ahead with a windfall tax, it is regrettable that it has taken so long to act. Energy companies have been making lavish profits all year. In fact, profits surged last year when energy prices soared as economies came out of lockdown and demand increased....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...where they are available, they categorise what is required, if a child is actually seen. We are not talking about cosmetic treatment here. We are talking about children who are in pain and have long-term problems that will cause multiples of that if they are not dealt with. As Deputy Hourigan said, it is gets to the extreme stage. Therefore, it is really important that this issue is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...kind of oversight this committee requires. It is one of the entities that would be before us every year, if it was audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. This has been going on a very long time. Can we clarify the point I raised?

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...is so prominent in this report, who withheld a letter with a lower offer from Mr O'Brien, after he was awarded exclusivity, is a director of one of the companies the Government is currently doing very lucrative deals with for long leases of social housing. We cannot see the same people emerging all of the time, even at this point. The payment to shareholders in the context of such large...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will finish by saying this. It is not that long ago that we had a piece of correspondence that talked about learning lessons from previous projects. I cannot remember where it came from but it jumped out at me. Would we have the benefit of learning lessons for this hospital from the children's hospital? It is not obvious how we learn lessons if the process is opaque, which this appears...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...an emergency budget to provide workers and their families with interim relief in advance of the budget in the autumn. The Government is also blind to the havoc it is causing in housing, which has long morphed from a crisis into a disaster. One of the most basic requirements of any functioning society is the provision of secure and affordable housing. It is supposed to be the biggest...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: -----and the continued long leasing of housing, which is a very expensive way of delivering housing, without there being an asset at the end, it has turned social housing into an attractive and profitable product. The €4 billion shrinks to nearly €2 billion when we make allowances for all of this. The direct builds of local authorities are in many cases turnkeys rather than...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...to leave an additional tip or perhaps not as much. Therefore, it is concerning that this Bill allows mandatory charges to be taken by an employer and used as general income of the business as long as they are no longer called service charges. As mentioned by Deputy O'Reilly earlier in the debate, several members of the Restaurants Association have already identified this as a loophole...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: That was in NAMA right from the word go. Why did it take so long to get a site that could have been used for that? It is in a good location. There is no doubt about the need. Is there a reason why it would have taken so long to get to the point where that could be used for educational purposes?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: It is an incredibly long period.

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...to our democracy. They lack legal merit and once they are presented in court, the vast majority are dismissed. That is not the issue at hand because the damage inflicted by SLAPPs happens a long time before they ever reach the courts. These lawsuits are characterised by lengthy and expensive litigation, crafted solely to drain an individual’s finances, isolate and intimidate them...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (5 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers who have initiated litigation proceedings against him and the HSE based on a claim that they suffer from long Covid after contracting the virus during the course of their work in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [35554/22]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...throughout Ireland and, of course, it has a disproportionate impact on women. With regard to Stardust, a section of the Bill makes provisions for the jury at the Stardust inquest. I welcome this long-awaited legislation and pay tribute to the families of the victims of the Stardust fire who have campaigned tirelessly for this inquest. We also have to acknowledge that there are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...public benefit purposes for which it was established; and this meant that the company had no beneficial owners in the commercial sense and that, unlike a for-profit enterprise, was unable to make any medium- or long-term plans based on equity or borrowings. In his reply to me yesterday, the Minister said that none of the Departments had an interest in contributing towards the funding of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I would actually agree about narrowing the focus. We had representatives of the HSE in to discuss mental health not that long ago. The problem is that you could have representatives of the HSE in here every week. You could have them in for a month on one topic.