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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I imagine a situation where someone will lose a job after the Bill is enacted. Instead of having some level of support for the mortgage, the person must go to the bank and it depends on whether the bank engages with the person. Interest on the mortgage will increase every month while people are awaiting a decision. Is there a possibility of the decision being backdated? Will it start from...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: On a point of clarification, what constitutes engagement in this regard? Can it be back dated? What amount will be paid in interest in the case of a restructured mortgage? The Minister referred to the banks asking that the supplement be paid directly to them. When people engage with the banks, the practice is that the banks will examine their personal and daily expenditure in detail and...

Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. Most of us look at the cases that come before us in our constituency offices and see trends. There is no doubt that every week we are seeing increasing numbers of people coming in with concerns about carer's allowances. An applicant can expect to wait for eight months, which seems to be the average time before the application is...

Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: There are two criteria a person must meet, first, income and, second, medical eligibility. In some cases it is easy to determine income eligibility but it beggars belief that some of the cases are turned down on medical eligibility and adds to the workload of the Department. The two cases I referred to came in last week. I did not pick them out because they are optimal cases. There is a...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: This issue was widely spoken about on Second Stage. In the absence of a child care provision and, given it would be illegal to leave a seven year old on his or her own, this section should be deleted and the matter dealt with when such child care provision has been put in place. Members have been contacted by many people about this issue, including by some of the organisations representing...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister talked about outcomes and none of us would disagree that the optimum is to get an outcome where lone parents do not head the table of groups that are more prone to poverty. The route out of that is obviously through work. I am surprised, however, that the Minister is challenging all of us about the need for child care. She was the one who made that point last week to the...

Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputies Seamus Healy and Luke Flanagan.

Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I understood there would be a 4 cent or 5 cent reduction in the cost of fuel and a quarterly review. I understand the cost of what is proposed is somewhere in the region of €150 million. I could be slightly wrong but I know the figure is substantial. I acknowledge there is a serious problem. There is no doubt that the cost of getting to work has become much more expensive and the cost of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way decisions in relation to the awarding of domiciliary carer's allowance are made by her Department; if there is scope to change the time the allowance may be awarded from currently two years to a period which may reflect the medical need of the child and the probability that their condition is not going to change in the short to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that changes to the awarding of rent supplement will be made in the near future; if she intends to change the system whereby, outside of Dublin, rent supplement rates are set on a county basis to a new system which will reflect the large differences in average market rents which exist within counties; if there is a...

Written Answers — Hazardous Waste Sites: Hazardous Waste Sites (25 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times the committee on clean up options for the former Irish Steel, ISPAT, site on Haulbowline Island, County Cork, has met; the dates of such meetings involved; the timescale for this group to finish its work; the budget required for remaining remedial works and where funding for this budget is to be...

Water Services Reform: Statements (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Unfortunately five minutes will not be enough. Ireland has more than 5,000 lakes, 7,000 km of coastline, a network of rivers and streams spanning the country and high levels of rainfall with an average of 150 days of rainfall in the east and south east and an average of 225 days of rainfall in parts of the west. This should result in an abundance of easily sourced and available clean water....

Water Services Reform: Statements (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Let me be very careful about this.

Water Services Reform: Statements (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It is not hard to see why people would be opposed to the installation of meters for a system that wastes 42% of the product it is supposed to deliver. This means 42% never gets to a tap. We are discussing establishing an agency that will operate as a business and will be allowed to bill people and which will inherit this level of wastage. Would the Minister of State pay for something if...

Water Services Reform: Statements (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Will the Minister of State categorically state this is not the case? It is almost currency at this stage. We must address the issue of waste because we will not be credible and people cannot be penalised if the system itself is as leaky as ours. It must be the first issue that is dealt with.

Water Services Reform: Statements (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The county is one of the biggest commercial users of water.

Written Answers — Copyright Infringement: Copyright Infringement (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will clarify if the terms of reference of the Copyright Review Committee established by him in May 2011 includes scope to directly examine the issue of copyright-holders recourse to seek injunctions against intermediaries whose customers and users may be infringing copyright; if this particular issue is planned to be...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, with regard to his proposals for merger and reform of the current employment and workplace dispute resolution bodies, if he will outline the expected impact the transition to the new structures will have on staffing numbers, staffing deployments, staffing roles and competencies, organisational arrangements, facilities...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new premises for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be available for use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21090/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Apr 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is at present any weekly supplementary welfare allowance available for persons who are in process of appealing a decision taken to not award them a particular social welfare payment on the grounds of failing the habitual residence requirement beyond a once-off emergency payment; if not, if she could indicate what recourse such...