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Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The special liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation are moving to sell the loan book as quickly as they can with substantial discounts. Just over 11,000 IBRC mortgage holders are owner-occupiers while just over 2,000 are in the buy-to-let category. I have been hearing from some of them who feel they are affected by this and whose loans are performing. The Minister for Finance...

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister has said he understands "the anxiety of individual customers". Those who have non-performing loans might be anxious, but those who have performing loans are absolutely furious that large corporate entities will be able to come in and buy those loans at a discount. The loans that are being valued relate to properties that have already been discounted because of negative equity....

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: That is not the point I was making.

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Finance Agency Issues (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the specific criteria and rationale used to determine the advancement of loans by the Housing Finance Agency which can adequately account for the extremely wide variance in total amounts advanced across local authorities; if he will account for the large increase in total loans advanced to County Mayo in 2012 compared...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Shared Ownership Scheme (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency's review of the shard ownership housing scheme if he will indicate the main recommendations; the specific difficulties that have been identified; the potential financial exposures to local authorities that have been identified; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider the introduction of a deposit retention tax for certain metal cans and plastic bottles with the specific focus of reducing littering and environmental pollution; if not, the reason for same; if he has conducted a feasibility study in relation to same; if he will share the findings; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 20 September 2011, the way the minimum establishment required for each Garda district is taken into account in the distribution of Garda personnel and resources as he explained when, in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 8 October 2013, it was explained that there is no minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (23 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the Parliamentary Question No.99 of 8 May 2012, the way response times are taken into account in the distribution of Garda personnel when, in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 460 of 8 October 2013, statistics in relation to response times are not available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45299/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: From the back of a truck.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister is likely to sneer at many of the comments from the Opposition. It seems that Ministers have to grin and bear listening to us. I have taken a look at some of the Minister's own reactions to hard budgets when she was an Opposition finance spokesperson. She referred to the 2009 budget as a nightmare on Merrion Street. She said the 2009 supplementary budget was the budget from...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: It is this disgraceful behaviour that is discrediting politics. There is no reason we could not have completed Second Stage this week and scheduled Committee Stage for the week after next when people would have had time to table considered amendments, leading to proper debate on the sections rather than debate on them being shoe-horned into ridiculously small timeframes.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister should not be taking up speaking time.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Issues (24 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is confident that persons who will be paying for water will have full access to be able to either directly, or through independent verification, access the readings on their new water meters to ascertain their usage and to be able to verify faults; if no such access exists, if he will confirm that only Irish Water...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: No.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I am unsure about what is the objective of the provision in this section but I assume it is not one that people will find favourable.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I have been told it is technical in nature. I have had people come to see me who have the legitimate expectation that they will end up with a pension because they paid many contributions over their working life. These have been mainly women who have taken time out to rear their children and have then returned to the workforce. I have been told that this is a technical change but I do not...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I mistakenly understood we would deal first with the provisions on pensions. I concur with Deputy O'Dea on the need to include in social welfare legislation any provisions that amend or reduce the household benefits package. The elimination of the telephone allowance is an example of such a reduction. Many of those who claim the household benefits package paid contributions throughout...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Standardisation is a nice, soft term that makes it sound like one is simplifying something or making it easier to understand. The reality is that this measure represents a €32 cut for 96% of mothers, or approximately 27,000 women. For approximately 1,000 women, it will be an increase of €300 over 26 weeks. People may have factored this cut into the costs that they must cover...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Catherine Murphy: We should implement good public policies. This section will achieve the opposite.