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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Absolutely, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No, the Workers' Party.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It was called the Workers' Party when I joined it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I joined in 1983.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No, I was elected in 1988 to a town council.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Leixlip Town Council. It was established in 1988. There were only four of them established in the history of the State, and that was the last one.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: They all predated-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No. None that were established since the foundation of the State were rating authorities. All the ones that were rating authorities predated that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, somewhere around that. I got a sabbatical from the Dáil at one point between 2005 and 2011, but I was back on the council in 2009.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: In 1991.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I actually think the time it was easiest to make changes was when we had a minority Government. In actual fact, an awful lot of very good things happened during that minority Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We have big governments and there is this notion that we require a big government to achieve things. In actual fact, even the culture of the Dáil changed during the minority Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Sláintecare.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: However, it is going in the right direction.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the initial funding that gave us the lifeline for the design stage of the Cahir to Waterford project at least but I am shocked and taken aback by the reply that a business case has to be made. The business case has long since been made for this road project. Whether it is a motorway or dual carriageway, the bypass of Tipperary town is badly needed. I have spoken to the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I am very much in favour of this project, especially of the section bypassing Tipperary town, which will advance faster than any other element of the project. We want the through-traffic out of Tipperary town straightaway. I recall meeting representatives of the local chamber of commerce. Some 30% of local shop fronts are not in operation, in the main, because there are so many trucks...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, indeed, it is good news. I hope the Minister will still be in the Cabinet when it comes to the Government later in the year. I take him at his word that he is interested in having a bypass of Tipperary town. The life is choked out of it with the trucks and other traffic that should not be going through the town. People will be able to breathe, work and live again in peace if it is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Those ancestors helped on the first Bianconi coach route from Clonmel to Limerick, which went through Tipperary town. It did not go through Bansha; it went further south. In honour of those ancestors, I look forward to seeing this happen.