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Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I raised this as a general issue. While I used that child as a specific example, this is a general issue. She has been turned down and cannot be seen for two years but she is not the only one on the waiting list. I will provide the information to the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (18 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all flood relief and large scale water drainage works carried out by the Office of Public Works in the past five years including the location of each scheme, the cost of each scheme and the numbers employed; his views on whether the use of OPW resources for such works represents a saving over the potential...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Closures (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the closure of an ocean energy research company (details supplied) in County Kildare which had received funding from Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18359/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Closures (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The company about which I am talking - Wavebob - is well known. I realise it is piloting this technology which the Minister included in the Action Plan for Jobs and Delivering Our Green Potential. Several documents have been produced by bodies connected with the Government. The NESC produced a document on the Climate Change Bill in which it stated Ireland's offshore wind energy resources...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the innovation voucher facility operated by Enterprise Ireland; if he will outline the way their facility may be applied to help foster small, community based proposals for product/business development or training; his views on whether the awarding of vouchers on a micro-scale to companies of one to five...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if she will state the present procedures which a citizen in receipt of a social welfare payment must declare such income for taxation purposes; if there are different arrangements in place for different social welfare payments in respect of the declaration of income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18896/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has put in place to ensure that large foreign registered vessels, commonly referred to as super trawlers, do not engage in illegal practices while fishing in Irish waters, such as high-grading; if he intends to make provision for the inspection of such vessels upon entry into Irish waters; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Offences (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any infringements or related penalties registered under the national register of infringements against vessels which have been made against a private company (details supplied) in accordance with Article 93 of the EU Control Regulation 1224/2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pelagic trawlers, such as the Annelies Llena and the Naeraberg, have fished inside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone in the past 24 months; the timeframe each such vessel spent fishing in the Irish EEZ in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19034/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has put in place to ensure that large foreign registered vessels, commonly referred to as super trawlers, do not engage in illegal practices while fishing in Irish waters, such as high-grading; if he intends to make provision for the inspection of such vessels upon entry into Irish waters; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Offences (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any infringements or related penalties registered under the national register of infringements against vessels which have been made against a private company (details supplied) in accordance with Article 93 of the EU Control Regulation 1224/2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pelagic trawlers, such as the Annelies Llena and the Naeraberg, have fished inside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone in the past 24 months; the timeframe each such vessel spent fishing in the Irish EEZ in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19034/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Irish Film Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. O'Herlihy said earlier that when he was asked about taking up this position, he had to think about it. What was there to think about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Irish Film Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (23 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I presume this will involve a certain number of meetings and familiarity with the work of the board and its strategy. There will be a relationship with the Minister as well. That is where topics like capital funding arise. The idea we could double numbers in full-time employment in the sector from 5,000 to 10,000 over such a short period of time sounds slightly fanciful. Some of this,...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 10, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “ “non-interchangeable medicinal product” means a medicinal product which is not interchangeable with any other medicinal product for prescription purposes in the opinion of the Irish Medicines Board in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of this Act;”.Most of us would...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I am really disappointed the Minister of State will not accept these amendments. The object, which we all want, is to get good value for the health service but one must look at the totality of this. I mention the impact on the State if it runs into difficulty. European countries have specifically excluded epilepsy and treated it differently. The Moran report recommended excluding it. We...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Where a person develops epilepsy and is treated with a generic drug which works for him or her, what is proposed is fine. What is at issue is the interchangeability of drugs. Many people with epilepsy have not seen a consultant and are managed by a general practitioner who may not have the range of knowledge of a specialist in the field. I take issue not with the Irish Medicines Board...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I missed some of the debate and hope I will not repeat what somebody else has said. One thing we are pretty good at in this country is looking at something that has not worked elsewhere and then trying it out here to see whether it works here. Volume 9, issue 3 of The Lancet in 2010 referenced a Canadian study on the issue of generic drugs. The article stated that doctors, patients and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Parliamentary Questions Numbers (24 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has instructed staff in her Department to routinely request the withdrawal of Parliamentary Questions before they are officially responded to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18696/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide figures for the amount of money allocated to community welfare officers for emergency payments of utility bills such as gas, electricity, heating oil and so on in each year for the past three years; her views on any increases in demands upon CWOs for such emergency payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18697/13]