Results 261-280 of 6,183 for in 'Committee meetings' speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: An ability to raise more money from people who do not have it.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: We are not in the Celtic tiger times now.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: I am unsure whether this is the right section. Will the Minister consider changing the reference to the suspension? This is section 103. Am I right?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: It is amendment No. 103.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: We can discuss the section.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: Will the Minister be examining that again?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 106:In page 73, lines 19 to 34, to delete all words from and including “shall” in line 19 down to and including “subsection (2)).”,” in line 34 and substitute the following:“shall, prior to the preparation of the draft local authority budget, invite municipal district members for each municipal district in the council’s...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: Non-discretionary funding is the key issue. Most of the local authority funding will be spent on services such as wastewater, planning, housing departments, staff and pensions. The focus of attention will be on discretionary funding and that will be at the minor end. Local authorities - county councils in particular - are really quite legalistic in terms of looking at how that spend...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously a number of regional authorities will be amalgamated. Have the assets and liabilities being calculated or are they fairly small?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: In elections.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: That is why it makes eminent sense to have direct elections to regional authorities. When the blocks are formed and there are only two positions, the two large blocks will form. This situation is replicated throughout a region. There is no diversity.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: I oppose this section as I did the section on transferring moneys from motor taxation and vehicle duties to the Minister for Finance. When people pay motor tax, they expect it to be used for the LGF, for which it has been ring-fenced for a considerable period, or for the upgrading of roads. The money is clearly being transferred for the purpose of repaying the national debt. Why do we not...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: Will they be better off?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: They will pay for it also.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: There is a total lack of transparency in respect of Irish Water, as is clear when one asks parliamentary questions. It is almost like teflon, as we used to say where there was an organisation between the Minister and Parliament. The problem is that we do not know where the money is being spent. We have every reason to be concerned about the extra administrative burden, a burden which the...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: This amendment was included after Second Stage and we did not have the opportunity to debate it. We will have an opportunity to do so on Report Stage because, clearly, amendments will be tabled. Given that it is a large financial issue and substantially changes matters, is there not a need to facilitate an additional debate prior to Report Stage? The process is defective when this...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: The debate about this amendment. It did not happen on Second Stage. There was no attention paid to it on Second Stage because it was not included in the Bill.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, but it concerns the relationship between the two.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: The amendment proposes to substitute the words "strategy or strategies" for "guidelines". What is the difference, and how will it play out?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)
Catherine Murphy: What difference would it make if we excluded the reference to the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act 1960? Some of us do not think we should be fluoridating our water. If we excluded this, would it mean anything?