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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 467. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if pay scales in Irish Water were set in line with pay scales in Bord Gáis Energy; and if salaries for staff in Irish Water were benchmarked against contracts in BGE that are based on pre-2009 salary levels. [5310/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Pensions Legislation (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 135. To ask the Taoiseach if he has considered the establishment of a junior Minister with special responsibilities for pensions, as in the UK, to tie together the disparate departmental elements across finance, social protection, health and public expenditure and reform that are responsible for pensions, in view of the looming pension crisis, the complexity of pension arrangements here, the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Expenditure (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of money the State has contributed to the holding of Africa day in 2012 and 2013; the amount committed for 2014; the amount of money that went directly to consultants and the amount provided that went towards consultancy fees including plans for 2014; the reason this money was not given directly to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 35 of 14 November and 51 of 12 November 2013, how it came to be, that using the system of scoring adopted by the Department, persons who had previously been selected to serve on the Department’s election monitoring roster when they had no prior experience in election...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Application (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ask the Revenue Commissioners if it is the case that there will be a loss to the Exchequer as a result of a reinterpretation of the local property tax legislation that will now see all buyers in 2013 receive an exemption from paying LPT; if so, what the anticipated loss will be; and the way this breaks down over each consecutive year. [5092/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering an amendment to the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in relation to the reimbursement of physiotherapy expenses (details supplied). [5104/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tax relief can be claimed in respect of tuition fees paid for approved courses at approved colleges of higher education, including Government mandated registration fees for third level institutions; and if not, the reason for same. [5309/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 433. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money given to the new communities partnership in each year since the partnership was established; the person responsible for the partnership; if the money spent is audited; and if he will provide the details of relevant audits. [4905/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Rehabilitation Clinics (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 528. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his view on the concentration of methadone clinics in the city centre; his views on whether the Garda has sufficient resources to deal with increasing social order issues in the vicinity of these clinics; the number of gardaí assigned to the Temple Bar area; and his plans to increase their resources. [5313/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 610. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the concentration of methadone clinics in the city centre and social order issues that arise as a result of same; the negative impact this has on those visiting the city, as well as on tourism businesses operating in the city centre. [5314/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 664. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is considering changing its policy of concentrating methadone clinics in the city centre, particularly in tourist areas; and if they are considering alternatives such as mobile clinics [5312/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (4 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 754. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to open a National Driving Licence Service office in the city centre to deal with backlogs in the existing Dublin centres. [5093/14]

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: In the context of the Bill, I was not going to speak about the recent situation with the Garda whistleblower in the Committee of Public Accounts, PAC, but after listening to the debate yesterday and this morning, there is a particular point I want to make. Somebody said that if one had stayed inside the bubble of Leinster House one might have come to the conclusion that it was not correct...

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the Bill and all that the Minister is trying to do to help small and medium sized enterprises and create an environment that will help create jobs and promote business in the domestic economy. The Action Plan for Jobs is key to the Minister's strategy. The Cabinet is discussing the iteration of the action plan for 2014. The evidence shows us that the Government is doing good work...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: There are a couple of points in this regard which relate to the investigation into the Irish Glass Bottle site. No. 3A.1 is information which came in relating to the shareholders' agreement, and members will recall from previous meetings that there was a disagreement on the interpretation of what the authority believed it was entering into and what it entered into. We have information from...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: There is the matter of the credit card expenses. The Chairman, Deputy McGuinness, raised the matter at the last meeting before Christmas, and the witness indicated he did not recall having a credit card. It had been a long meeting but he subsequently wrote to us and stated that he had a credit card but had forgotten about it at the meeting. He indicated that he was happy to write to us...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I agree with what Deputy Deasy said. My recollection is that at last week's meeting we agreed that if Sergeant McCabe - for legal reasons - sought a redacted transcript of the proceedings, we would consider his request and make a decision. The first thing to say is that he does not appear to be requesting the transcript for legal reasons.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Then we cannot publish a transcript at all, particularly in view of what transpired at that meeting. The letter received from Sergeant McCabe's lawyers is clearly not a request because the phrase "He has asked that we would write to you" is used. I agree with Deputy Deasy to the effect that we can settle this matter now, we do not need to refer it to CPP and we do not need to publish a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I would be interested to hear what Ms English has to say in the context of whistleblower legislation and how it might change the role of committees in future. As matters stand, however, we will not produce the transcript. We do not need to drag this matter out week after week. We can make a decision now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: We should be careful about the terms we used in this discussion. Words such as "bury" are value-laden and imply that we are trying to cover up something. That is not the case. In my opinion and on proper recollection of the private meeting we had, we are protecting Sergeant McCabe's interests by not producing the transcript. If people have a full recollection of the meeting, they will...