Results 41-60 of 10,622 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: When are the accounts of Irish Water due?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: If they are cleared, will they be published then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It would be optimistic to think we would deal with them on this side of the recess.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is a very sizeable amount of money and I would like to see them here.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I thank Senator Flynn. She is a force of nature. She made sure we were all very well aware of this meeting happening and encouraged us all to attend. I am delighted to be here. I represent the Social Democrats in the Kildare North constituency. There is a cliché, and clichés serve a purpose, that you cannot be what you cannot see. The fact that Senator Flynn is here is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Just to make that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is incredibly frustrating. First, I agree that we should slot UL in at the earliest possible opportunity. If that is 9 May, then we should do that. I agree with the Cathaoirleachon on the list of people he proposes to invite. It is really important that we have the HEA in because this is not the first time this has happened. Obviously, the Cathaoirleach referred to the Dunnes Stores...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I am nearly finished. There are three or four things in terms of governance failures to which attention is being drawn. I would have expected them to be addressed after the previous significant issue arose. To be perfectly honest, I understand that people get sick and have to be afforded time for leave, but there has been a pattern here. A significant issue arises and a person becomes...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I have a question about Údarás na Gaeltachta. The project in question did not go ahead. I think it is the last one on the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Some €661,838 capital and related costs were incurred for the planned building renovation project that did not proceed. What was that spent on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Is it a reusable amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Was there no business case? I would like to know a little more about that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would have thought Údarás na Gaeltachta would have had an outline done first and then tested it to see if there was likely to be interest in funding it before it spent €661,000, which is a very large sum of money. Údarás na Gaeltachta would have had to spend some money but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Are there lessons to be learned about taking a more robust approach in advance of taking on a project that did not end up progressing? If we start to look at projects that have started - the metro is a case in point, as is the interconnector - and where money has been spent in advance but it then does not proceed, some of the work is still usable and some is not because it will have to be...