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Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: There is no money for overtime.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Energy Schemes (31 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the updated National Energy Efficiency Action Plan will be published; the specific role that the Action Plan will have in relation to the targets required of Ireland under the EU 2020 emissions reduction plan; his plans to include the forthcoming pay as you save retrofit scheme under the scope of the plan; and if he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Energy Schemes (31 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I presume somebody will be nominated to take responsibility for each of the 97 actions because, without that level of responsibility, the actions may well not be delivered. Obviously, the plan must be very practical if it is going to deliver the savings. The Minister is correct that a huge amount of money could be saved in terms of energy efficiency, including in the public service. Is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Energy Schemes (31 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The last time I asked a question the Minister gave me a table of figures for the fall-off in take-up of the insulation scheme which is quite dramatic. Is there a problem in the way the scheme is designed? Is it all or nothing? Does this put off people who might be able to do it on an incremental basis?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Exports (31 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the terms of the negotiations that have taken place between him and his British counterpart on the development of a Memorandum of Understanding on trade in renewable energy; if said memorandum is close to being finalised; the main aims of the memorandum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4601/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations Conventions (31 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the process behind the adoption of the UN’s Conferences on the Law of the Sea’s 200nm Economic Exclusive Zone into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4845/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Landings (31 Jan 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will supply figures relating to fish extracted from waters under Irish jurisdiction by EU and non-EU vessels since 2002 broken down by weight, by monetary value, and by International Conference for the Exploration of the Sea Areas in each year during the period stated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4846/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Assistance Scheme (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he wll advise the way in which the proposed transfer of the rent assistance scheme from the Department of Social Protection to his Department in intended to operate; the anticipated timeline of this project; if any local authorities have been selected for a pilot version of the new arrangement; the resources that will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Assistance Scheme (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: In the first instance, it is very important that a decision is made in a single location as the dual process is causing serious problems. In this regard I fully acept that there are property traps within the rent assistance scheme. However, I note this is the single most prominent issue that arises in my interactions with individuals and I am sure it is the same with most Deputies,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Assistance Scheme (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: -----it is putting them off. I am more then somewhat disappointed that more details on this initiative have not yet emerged. I had hoped that in response to this question, I would have been given a timeline, the number of local authorities that will pilot it, the kind of resources that might be needed and how issues such as the embargo will be overcome. These are the questions on which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Assistance Scheme (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Will the RAS scheme be included or replaced and what will happen to it? Moreover, it is intended that all or some of those who currently are engaged in processing the rental assistance fund will be transferred to the local authorities? The kind of pressures that people are under in one local authority with which I am familiar is evident to me and there certainly will be a resourcing issue...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: In his initial reply, the Minister mentioned the security of rates as a source of funding for local authorities. If shops and businesses close down because the increase in rates has made them unviable, dereliction and job losses also become issues. There must be a whole of Government response to this. When the Valuation (Amendment)(No.2) Bill reaches Committee Stage, what input will the...

Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of social landlords, I have talking to a principal from the Iveagh Trust who is very concerned about the viability of housing in that housing stock. In my area we have Respond, Cluid and Circle. Increasingly housing will be administered by social landlords. The availability of housing is really bad at the moment and if we shrink that and put that housing stock at risk, it will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to divide the proposed new legal regime for climate policy into two pieces of legislation, namely the Low Carbon Bill and the Climate Change Bill as referenced by the Taoiseach on 22 January 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5077/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that non-ETS emissions targets for 2013 and 2014 under the EU's 2020 emissions reduction plan will be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5076/13]

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Was the Minister, Deputy Noonan, anywhere in that list?

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Not a cent more.

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I strongly believe in democracy, and we all agree that what happened in the small hours of the morning that the banks were bailed out and secured was fundamentally undemocratic. The Irish people decided to make a major change in who was returned to this Chamber in an action described as a democratic revolution. As an elected representative, I am tonight relying on Twitter rather than...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I listened to Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor-----