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Written Answers — Department of Health: Parliamentary Questions (7 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health the average response time for Parliamentary Questions referred by his Department to the Health Service Executive; if he will provide figures for the number of Parliamentary Questions processed by the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the HSE each year since it was established; the average response times for each such year; his views on whether the response time...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Expenditure (8 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health the State funding provided to private home care providers for the current year; the projected cost of such funding for 2013; the number of private home care companies in receipt of such funding; the rationale behind the provision of State funding to private care home companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48743/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 16 May 2012, if he will provide an update on the changes outlined by him in response; if he will confirm that since the issuing of the letter on 15 May 2012 from the National Directors of the Health Service Executive and Chief Operating Officer of the Special Delivery Unit on the matter concerned all hospitals have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (8 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 18 October 2012, if he will further provide the function of each of the properties listed in said reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49169/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Preservation of Historic Buildings: Discussion (8 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The Venice Charter refers to context. The curtilage of sites is protected. The curtilage of this site is within the bounds of the buildings in Moore Street rather than the battlefield site. The context, however, is wider than the curtilage that is protected. There is no doubt about the authenticity of the site. Professor Kealy said work should be capable of being reversed. Does that...

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Thomas Pringle, Richard Boyd Barrett, Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy-Rae.

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I very much regret that there is such a heavy guillotine on the Bill, which is a sizeable legislative measure, and also that we have such a short period in which to table amendments. That could come back to bite us. The credit union movement started in this country in the 1950s, a time very similar to now, with poverty and emigration, and a difficult time for the construction industry. It...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider introducing a third higher band of employer PRSI contributions on salaries of €100,000 or more; if she will outline the net effect that she believes such a policy would have on both revenue generated and employment; her views on the unusually small contribution which social security taxes make to Irish Government revenues...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated number of local authority houses currently rented; his plans to exempt this category from the proposed property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49571/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Diet Supplement (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health if the dietary supplement for children with coeliac disease at €6.50 per month is regarded as sufficient; if consideration was given to the adequacy of the supplement in advance of the withdrawal of this support from those in receipt of medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49560/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: In regard to the rent supplement scheme and the changeover next year to the rent assistance scheme to be administered by local authorities, is it intended that it will still be a rent assistance scheme or to accelerate the rental accommodation scheme? I do not need to go into the detail on the differences. As the scheme will require significant additional administration, is it intended to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Has the local authority for the pilot scheme been selected yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It will not be Kildare. For what it is worth, the Department would not be able to afford it because rent assistance is way out of sync with even what is being paid on the rental accommodation scheme. However, I would like to see Kildare or a similar area being used as the pilot because that would provide a robust test given that there are particular problems such as that rents are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister could get some of the State agencies to come up with a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: First, it is clear that the local government fund has been decimated in the past four years and that we are down to the bone at this stage. The flawed needs and resources model was used to create a base line for the needs of people. Has a base line been determined by the Department on what local authorities require? Clearly, issues such as non-discretionary pay would have to be included in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: -----before staffing is examined again? In some areas there is adequate staff while in others there is not and therefore doing something not in a targeted way will cause further problems.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Is there modelling taking place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Essentially, they were not given ten days because the report was in July. They gave the Minister the run around until we had that Dáil debate and the Minister specified-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It has been specified that they were given a limit of ten days to come back. I acknowledge that it is their issue but the Minister has the power to put that levy scheme together. A stick needs to be waved at this stage because if I were in one of the 850 houses that are falling down I would want to know how the scheme will be funded, what the remediation process will be, how testing will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Minister sure it will only take a few days? Can he give guarantees?