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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (18 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected date on which a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be in a position to open the new school buildings constructed there; the reason for the delay in opening the new buildings; if he will outline all existing planning impediments and compliance orders related to the new building works; if he will provide details of his...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Information and Communications Technology Issues (18 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to any attempt by the State to apply to the Internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers for recognition of a new generic top-level domain or multiple new gTLDs such as .IRELAND, .EIRE, .DUBLIN and so on, which may be used by Government Departments and State Agencies as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Lottery Funding Applications (18 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of projects receiving National Lottery funding through her Department since the creation of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38944/12]

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The thrust of the Bill is positive. However I have some concerns which I would like to address. We have had too much legislation which does not have a solid practical application and uncertainty about how it will be applied. It is important to consider this legislation not only in its own right but also where it fits into the jigsaw in terms of the suite of child protection legislation....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Policing Plans (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the factors which are taken into consideration when the annual policing plan is being prepared; if population growth trends and projections across the country that have been taken into account when previous policing plans have been prepared, especially with regard to the geographical distribution of Gardaí; when he expects the next policing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Policing Plans (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I have a copy of last year's plan and I see how it is broken down. The Garda Commissioner does not take population into consideration and there is no evidence of him doing so. For example, based on a number of comparators Kildare is the worst policed area in the country. If the whole country had the same level of gardaí as are present in Kildare, we could let 4,800 gardaí go....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Policing Plans (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Moving people between regions is just not possible in that situation. Seven Deputies sought a meeting months ago with the Garda Commissioner and he has given us the deaf ear. We have been advised that the resources are not nationally based but regionally based and what we have we hold.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Policing Plans (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: These Garda reports are only works of fiction unless there is a real prospect of using resources where they are needed rather than where they are located at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Policing Plans (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It is a welcome suggestion. The Minister of State said the Minister has his job to and the Commissioner has his job to do. Our problem is that we are going around in circles making this demand with the Minister saying it is the responsibility of the Garda Commissioner, the Garda Commissioner refusing to meet us and the regions insisting that what we have we hold. At the same time people's...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: While I had no expectation that the reforms in the health service would be delivered overnight, I had an expectation that by now the direction would be shaped, a vision outlined and a credible plan of action put in place. Where I agree with Fianna Fáil's motion of no confidence is that the budget put forward was completely unrealistic from the outset. For example, the notion that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Extension (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the enhanced mortgage interest relief to first time buyers who signed contracts for their home in 2008 and were therefore obliged to pay inflated prices, but who did not draw down their loan or incur interest payments until 2009 because they purchased off the plans; if so, the criteria that will be required to prove that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is a variance in the numbers of stationed Gardaí per capita across Garda districts; his views on whether there has been a significant and consistent failure to take population growth trends into account when policing plans have been prepared and that this is the primary reason that there is a large variance in Garda resources...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (19 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is a variance in the numbers of stationed Gardaí per capita across Garda districts; his views on whether there has been a significant and consistent failure to take population growth trends into account when policing plans have been prepared and that this is the primary reason that there is a large variance in Garda resources...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I propose to share time with Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: We are very fortunate in this country to have a written Constitution. That is not to say I am satisfied with every provision therein or that I do not wish to see it modernised. However, it does serve to frame the higher principles from which laws are enacted and society is organised. The inclusion of a section in the Constitution dedicated to the rights of children is essential,...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I want to begin by adding to the comments of other Deputies in expressing my personal revulsion and horror at the record of church and State when it comes to the unimaginable cruelty delivered onto thousands of women and girls by these institutions, and I thank Deputy MacDonald and Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. The stories of the barbaric, sadistic abuse handed out to...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Abuse takes many forms and poverty is one of the forms that rarely gets the kind of attention it deserves. Poverty takes power away from people. It was the children of poor families who often ended up in industrial schools or orphanages. Many of them suffered horrific abuse and were scarred for life. That was at a time when little children were supposed to be seen but not heard....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Harvest 2020 Strategy (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will state, as Chair of the High Level Implementation Group, if it is still his view that Food Harvest 2020 is not a plan or programme as defined in Article 2 of Directive 2001/42/EC and therefore subject to a Strategic Environmental Assessment; if he will explain the reason that it is not considered as such by him in view of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Genetically Modified Organisms (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will state his precise policy in relation to the outdoor field trials of GM potatoes currently underway in County Carlow; the ultimate goal of conducting the research trials; the implications of the trials for Government policy on the use of GM; his view on whether this information is required to be disclosed under the Aarhus...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the number of times the Cabinet sub-committee on Climate Change has met since its formation, the dates concerned. [40303/12]