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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: Throughout the 1990s, before there was a salary or a salary-type payment, there is no doubt there was a reliance on this as almost an income stream. In some cases, it was abused and it became an embarrassment. This should have been addressed as soon as a salary was paid but it was not. Some of the local authorities took measures and limits were put in place, which was right. It is...

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 refer to amendment No. 193 and the continuation of housing allocation scheme. The Minister has anticipated Irish Water in regard to one particular change. I do not know if the pilots for the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme have started yet. I presume the changes will be included in the HAP scheme. In the administration of the housing list leasing has been the predominant...

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: Future proofing is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: It is valuable that we have reduced the number of areas where we might be subject to fines from 19 to ten. Could the Minister outline what progress has been made in respect of the ten areas to which he referred, whether we will still be subject to fines and what these fines are? There is work to be done in respect of the use of forestry and bog land as carbon sinks. Will that be done in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Is it intended that the committee will be independent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (10 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses. I must declare a conflict of interest, not in this section but in one of the other sections. It is in respect of Eneclann, which will appear before the committee. I have shares and I must declare that as a conflict of interest so that we do not run into difficulties later. I probably must declare another interest because I have a passion about this subject. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (10 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses. This has been a very interesting session. It was deliberate that the committee invited such a diverse range of people to attend, who while they do not make up an exhaustive list of the groups involved in this area give us more or less a taste of the various strands that will provide for a plan that will include all of the records that are available. In other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I thank our guests for their opening statements. We will gather their statements with the ones that were made on Monday and with those we will hear from next group of people. Mr. Lonergan from the Department made an important point about the indexes. There has been an improvement whereby people can now go to one portal to search for records with the redesign of the www.irishgenealogy,ie...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I will leave it at that and might come back in later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I should have declared a conflict of interest at the beginning, as I did on Tuesday, in that I have some shares in Eneclann. I wanted to put that on the record. It is obviously a great improvement that there is one central location for the website, but is that advertised? People who do not know that is the official portal may not find it obvious to visit that site. Are there any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: There is not much competition among members for posing questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I have a few questions. My first one is a little off the beaten track. I am curious about the DNA project and how that can link in. Mr. Smyrl might elaborate on that because, clearly, that project is linked to this. If we are to future proof any report it would be useful to have some understanding of such linkage. On the partnership arrangements about which the delegates from the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The one thing that is never in dispute is that there is a North-South unanimity and logic about the records. It was possible for people in Northern Ireland to get records from the census in the South about the North before they were available. There are many of these anomalies and I am sure the reverse is the case in some of the peripheral areas to the Six Counties. In that context, has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: If a Christmas tree was plugged in, we would lose PowerPoint.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the delegates for responding speedily to the request to appear before the committee. I want to elaborate on some of the questions already asked. What has probably taken most of us by surprise is the extent of the need for external consultants. It would be very useful for us to see the scoping document that would have been presented. The delegates might let us know whether this is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It would be very useful to have the scoping documents and some time to go through them, followed by a further range of questions. This goes back to the central point of what capacity was available. I accept that no one knows who will tender for a project. Mr. Tierney spoke about how unfortunate it was that these matters were compressed into a short timeframe. Does Mr. Tierney have a view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I will go to another range of questions. In respect of the €2 billion, it is the language of government. I am always keen to look at the exact words you are using. There is a €2 billion saving to the Exchequer. That saving also factors in income from a source. For example, it is turning citizens into customers for the want of a description. Could the witnesses tell us the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: On the sum of €2 billion - tell me what is in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Does it include domestic customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Is the figure of €80 million plus in consultancy fees the extent of the consultancy fees that will be signed off on or required to complete the set-up project? Is a PR component included in that?