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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (12 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of full time medical assessors are or have been employed by her Department to oversee illness scheme applications and appeals presently and each year for the past five years; the number of medical assessors that have been or are employed on a part time basis in this time; if there is scope to hire new assessors; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Equipment (12 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the IT cataloguing system that is used by her Department to accept and process illness benefit claims and appeals; the procedure from initial application through to final decision after appeals have been exhausted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12616/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion with Irish National Flood Forum (12 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I represent Kildare North, where there has been extensive flooding in places such as Celbridge, Leixlip, Maynooth, Johnston, Kill, Straffan and Sallins. These locations featured in news items over the past ten or 12 years. There was footage of an individual in a rowing boat in a housing estate in the town of Celbridge. This is crazy stuff. The local authority and OPW response can be good...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I draw attention to the supports other countries put in place, particularly the more enlightened countries in the northern hemisphere such as the Nordic countries. These countries look at the replacement of population and solidarity across generations because we need to replace our population if we are to afford to cater for our aging population. There appears to be evidence that many...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Like other Members, I come across people who have a stark choice to make between heating their homes or putting food on the table. It is a choice not everybody faces, but it very stark for those who do. The issue of fuel poverty must be examined when proposals like this are brought forward. I accept the point that in some parts of the country people do not have a choice about the type of...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Most of us wish people did not have to feel there was a need to have health insurance. However, with the queues for treatment in the health system, many believe there is a requirement to have health insurance. I believe in the principle of community rating and that cross-generation solidarity is required in terms of health insurance premiums. Was any calculation made of the fallout from...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: One of the key elements in securing Ireland's future is the proper investment in our human potential. Education and training is key. The Government unfortunately has not given education and training anything like the priority it should. In an employment crisis one of the last areas in which we should be making this type of cut is education and training. A key part of the answer to...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Like other Members, I come across people who have a stark choice to make between heating their homes or putting food on the table. It is a choice not everybody faces, but it very stark for those who do. The issue of fuel poverty must be examined when proposals like this are brought forward. I accept the point that in some parts of the country people do not have a choice about the type of...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Most of us wish people did not have to feel there was a need to have health insurance. However, with the queues for treatment in the health system, many believe there is a requirement to have health insurance. I believe in the principle of community rating and that cross-generation solidarity is required in terms of health insurance premiums. Was any calculation made of the fallout from...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: One of the key elements in securing Ireland's future is the proper investment in our human potential. Education and training is key. The Government unfortunately has not given education and training anything like the priority it should. In an employment crisis one of the last areas in which we should be making this type of cut is education and training. A key part of the answer to...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his function in relation to supporting the arts at a local authority level either through a direct allocation from his Department's expenditure or through EU Cultural Programme funding; if, in view of the large reductions in general expenditure on the arts at local level in recent years he proposes any new vehicles to support the area;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Programme (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the will list the number of LEADER programmes both at group level and national level; the cost involved in operating each programme; the number of staff involved in administering each programme; the total aggregated spend on salaries; the total number of staff earning more than €80,000 per annum broken down by each...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (13 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide figures detailing the budget for each Garda division superintendent in the State in each of the past four years plus the allocation for 2013; if he will provide a consolidated figure in respect of same for each Garda region over the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13206/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason soldiers and other military professionals are not consulted on pay and service negotiations until after a prospective deal has been concluded; if he has expressed any suggestions to the Department for Public Expenditure and Reform to include them in the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13151/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 6 March 2013, if he will elaborate the way the allocation of Garda resources is constantly monitored in the context of demographics, crime trends, policing needs and other operational strategies in place on a district, divisional and regional level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13474/13]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I am not opposing the Government's amendment but I am opposing the section. The whole idea in 2008 was to change the culture whereby people who bought more fuel-efficient cars were rewarded through the tax code. The other aspect of this to which I wish to draw attention is the issue of the motor tax fund. Last week when we were debating this issue, the Minister for the Environment,...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister of State referred in his reply to the local government fund. Since 2009, a total of €534 million has been withdrawn from the local government fund when €150 million coming out of the motor tax fund this year, is included. The property tax will bring in €500 million at best. Therefore, we will not see an increase in the services. There needs to be a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Section 6 was included in the legislation last year. Obviously it is being done in a transparent way in that the Minister of State is telling us that he is hijacking this money from the Local Government Fund. This proposed amendment is not about motor tax revenue, rather it is about that revenue with part of it being used to pay off the national debt. That is the reality of it. I want to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister of State referred to having no choice. Politics is all about choices, those the Government decides to make. The Minister of State has come to the conclusion there is no other choice but I believe there is a different range of choices.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Insurance Federation (19 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Most floods happen because following a lot of rain, there is an inadequate means of getting rid of the water quickly so. Mr. Thompson has said the federation meets the OPW and is trying to understand its processes. Getting a scheme up and running is a tall order because one goes through a painstaking process in allocating public funds. What seems to be happening is that those living...