Results 41-60 of 6,104 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (4 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I address my first questions to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. Much of what has been discussed amounts to a no-brainer. It is good for the environment and the retrofits are good too. We may end up with a trade surplus if we are not obliged to import all our energy and we produce energy savings and so on. Utility bills are a major issue for people at the moment. I am...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: My questions pick up where Deputy Stanley finished on oversight. It would be quite useful for us to get the detail. We are informed that the proposed contribution will enable fulfilment of contractual obligations arising in 2012. I would like to know what the contractual obligations are. Unless we have that detail, which may well be available but which I have not seen, it is difficult to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Was it? No doubt the Minister had an obligation to the commitment in terms of the climate change element of whatever the Department oversees, but when one sees a man dying in the doorway, as somebody did on Friday last, one wants to ensure that whatever is available in that homeless fund is spent. I merely draw attention to the matter because that happened last year and I would not like to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It is about the budget as well. There is €895 million.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The broader parameters of the budget are the €895 million, which on 27 November was the detail of expenditure from the Department, not all of which had been fully committed. It is valid to ask whether all of that will be spent by the end of the year or whether there will be a further meeting next week to deal with other issues. The spending of this money is not a private process...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I see no reason that should not be included in the public arena.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Will it be carried over?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I asked the Minister about the detail on the fulfilment of the contractual obligations of the PEACE III programme.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Minister know the detail of what we are contractually committed to?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Business of Select Sub-Committee (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Minister likely to be able to give us an update on the negotiations on pyrite remediation? Obviously it is a major issue for those who are affected, and it will be on their minds next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It is welcome to hear that we are likely to see the heads of the climate change Bill before Christmas. There would have been a difficulty with our credibility if we had not kept to the timeline. What happened in Doha cannot be separated from the work that will be done during the Irish Presidency. The Minister said he had bilateral talks with many European environment Ministers. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to make a couple of points. As regards the accreditation system, I have watched a lot of planning permissions over the years, including ones where an environmental impact assessment is required. They are required to be independent but I found it strange that in all those years I never saw one arguing against the proposal. I would have thought there would be something that would not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: When there is a planning application that requires an environmental impact assessment - and those assessments are supposed to be independent - I have never seen one argue anything other than positively in favour of the application in every respect. One would have thought that some of them would have been neutral at least on the proposal that was being made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want to make another argument, but that is it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Others started their contributions by referring to the small number of people who have been through the courts but there are other kinds of corruption of a process. It is clear that our system favoured landowners and developers and we have ended up with a very costly outcome and it is incredibly expensive to service that by way of wastewater treatment plants, social supports, public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I can if the Chairman allows me a minute or two to do so. Bad practice is not exclusive to good times. We could have bad practice now if something was proposed. I have often found myself in what was described as the anti-crowd because I would have scrutinised things. We can have bad practice in good times where people believe anything is better than nothing in terms of development. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Will the blockages at the courts be examined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I still have concerns about resourcing and about the courts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: These will be included in the minutes of this-----