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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This is the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I just wanted to see whether it was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is not that the Bill has been amended. When this legislation was first announced, the intention was for metering to be in place. We will not now have bills based on meters. I understand that the meters have a 15-year lifespan. Is that the case? Are there relevant contractual obligations? I will run through a number of other issues that I wish to raise. I will be jumping all over...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Leader funding is also important to less rural counties. It impact is primarily outside the capital city and it is an extremely important fund. There have been criticisms of the fact that in some areas there is a queue of projects, while others do not have the same throughput. It is important that a close eye is kept on the funding and that it is distributed to schemes that are ready to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014 (16 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Sheridan’s statement summarised the heads of the Bill very well. There are some good ideas in it but it is important that they are workable and that there are no get out of jail clauses in it. I am concerned about the subjective aspects. What scrutiny will there be on the vacant site levy because much of it will be done at local level? Will it be exclusively the executive that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014 (16 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The development contribution comprises a huge proportion of the development levy - probably between one third and one half. Is it intended that Irish Water will access that funding or has that provision been removed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014 (16 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: How is that to happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014 (16 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Am I correct that Part V might result in RAS or leasing houses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014 (16 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Will all that be under Part V?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, this is pre-legislative scrutiny and we are looking at legislation which will be useful in practice, so I want to just pick out a number of things out of the submissions. I echo the point Deputy Stanley made in that my experience has been that the local authority is run ragged by the construction industry and not just because of the recent crash. From the time I was elected to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Was it Clonakilty? It delivered a very good outcome but it required a huge amount of administrative time, and it requires money. The witness was quite right about the rolling fund. It would be useful to identify the deficiencies in the Derelict Sites Act, which was cumbersome in that a derelict site notice could not be served on, say, somebody living outside the country. There were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I will leave it at that and await the response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Let us start with the Planning Institute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Discussion (27 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I am sorry that I missed most of the meeting but I have not quite mastered the art of bi-location yet. Pre-legislative scrutiny is very useful in that it gives us the opportunity to put together legislation that has a practical effect. Those of us who were members of local authorities for many years often came across actions that were possible in theory but not in practice. Some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: In the context of our discussion on this meeting, we considered whether we would do pre-legislative scrutiny of the planning and development (No. 2) Bill. We are obviously working on the No. 1 Bill at present. Part of the reason we were exploring this was to see what would be possible, because what is published and what will end up being in the Bill are very different, given what has been...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 1:In page 11, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:"(6) The NTA shall make regulations prohibiting clamping activities in the following locations:(a) a designated parking place for visitors and patients at Health Service Executive funded hospitals and voluntary public hospitals; (b) a designated parking place within a residential development with the exception...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: No, there are mixed developments where some apartments are traditional housing estates where there is a management company.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: It is a pity it is not about parking policy because we lack an overall framework. If an overall clamping framework was in place, where one could look at whether the sanctions are appropriate that would be a better approach. We know already that clamping is outlawed in England, Scotland and Wales as a particular sanction. I had a briefing with the Department and understand part of the...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I do not believe it is correct to have clamping in hospital car parks.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I do not believe it is correct at all to have clamping as a sanction in hospital car parks.