Results 301-320 of 6,183 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Catherine Murphy: From the outline here, from page 11 on, it is clear the Department was fully aware all along that it was signing off on amounts, so it should not have come as a surprise that very significant amounts of money were being expended and drawn down. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Catherine Murphy: The fact that we are discussing this in retrospect is part of the problem. We need freedom of information because there is a lack of transparency in how we do things. Whether one can have full transparency here is another matter. It is clear that we did not know, but the Department knew, there were very sizeable amounts and I will not ask the witnesses to comment on that because, as they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Catherine Murphy: I have a number of questions. Going back to the savings to the Exchequer, the witnesses stated there was a hybrid model and some of that includes payments directly from the Exchequer towards the capital works. It is only a saving to the Exchequer if there is an actual saving, through procurement, etc., or through additional charges. That is the relevant point. One could end up with a good...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Catherine Murphy: What of the oversight of the quality of the work?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: Absolutely, and the Minister knows it.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: No.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: I am not going to the other meeting because this one is very important. The focus of attention has been on water services but there are additional substantial issues at stake. If one wants confusion in terms of income stream versus expenditure stream – pardon the pun - then one must look to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Let us look at page 16 of...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: That is a critical issue that will be raised in the coming months. In terms of the income of local government, some years ago the motor taxation income was ring-fenced for the purpose of establishing the Local Government Fund. That has largely proven to be the case. I have figures from 2006 to 2014. It is a sizeable amount of money – close to €1.1 billion. Basically, what...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: That payment to the Exchequer was €100 million last year, however.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: So, €500 million extra has gone to the Exchequer.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: People do not realise it though.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: I have read them.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: I must say the Minister is just-----
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: It is impossible to know and I will tell the Minister the reason.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: It is because I do not know what the service level agreements were in respect of the water.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: That is the reason I do not know. I cannot compare like with like.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: Rent supplement is not accepted.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: Will the accounts be done at the end of the year?
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Catherine Murphy: Predominantly the afternoon, although the Bill will be taken for an hour prior to Leaders' Questions.