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Other Questions: NAMA Property Rental (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered approaching the National Asset Management Agency to determine if it would be possible for that agency to provide start-up businesses with appropriate premises at discounted rental rates from the stock of properties held which would be suitable; if he considers such a proposal to have merit in terms of encouraging domestic growth; and if...

Other Questions: NAMA Property Rental (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The question seeks to ascertain whether the Minister sees merit in approaching NAMA to do the same with small incubator units for business in the domestic economy as would be the case with, for example, housing units where they are suitable. In some locations, there would be a shortage of suitable properties. It may well be that the local authorities, which will have a business unit, could...

Other Questions: NAMA Property Rental (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Quite a lot of the Minister's reply dealt with the higher-end area. I was specifically trying to focus on microenterprise. We all would accept that if there will be many jobs created, it will be in small to medium-sized businesses. Those smaller businesses are the ones that have the potential to employ one or two persons. Can I take if from the Minister's reply, because it will not be...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The motion before us seeks the approval of the Dáil to endorse the Government's decision on exiting the bailout without a precautionary credit line, but we are being asked to do this in a vacuum. When the Technical Group last met representatives of the troika, we explored what the precautionary credit line would look like and what it would take to put it together. We were told it would...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Some of it is true, but there is a sin of omission as the Government never gives the other side, which is that the level of indebtedness in this country continues to be completely unsustainable. On the so-called prom night in February we were told, for example, by the Minister for Finance that it was crucial for IBRC mortgage holders to understand that their position following the...

Youth Employment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. It is only right and proper that we focus our attention on this group. Nationally, 30% of young people are unemployed but the percentage is higher in, for example, Donegal and Limerick, where it approaches 50%. There is plenty of research to show that when people experience unemployment early in their lives, they are likely to experience it...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Yield (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenues collected from the local property tax to date broken down by local authority area; the first expected date when sums corresponding to local property tax revenues will be transferred from the central fund to the local government fund; the reason such transfers may be postponed; if he has this year requested moneys to be transferred from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí engaged in community policing in each county; the number of persons engaged in community policing including volunteers and Garda Reserve members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49624/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding provided to the Irish Youth Justice Service in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49627/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (20 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the 31 national youth organisations supported by the youth service grant scheme are the same organisations that administer funding on behalf of her Department; if not, if she will outline the 31 national youth organisations supported by the youth service grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49766/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in his programme of reforming the public service, he has included a detailed regional or sub-national planning model for the optimal development of the public service around the country into the future; the extent of input his Department is having in the development of a new national spatial strategy; if the public service will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The question is about the planning under way to ensure we have the optimal public service. We are heading into a new national spatial strategy. It is not just a dry strategy based on where one would develop; public services must accompany the development. One of my concerns is that demographic change does not play as significant a role as it should in order for services to be matched with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I am pleased to hear there is a whole-of-government approach, as that brings in the national spatial strategy in terms of forward planning. The distribution of public services around the country is most unequal, but I do not need to tell the Minister that because Wexford is a case in point. For example, in terms of local authority staff, County Meath has half the number of staff in County...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The issue is critically important. The Minister did not answer the part of the question about how public service reform would dovetail with the national spatial strategy in the future. I fully understand it is part of the role of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. We have a difficult situation to deal with and a dispersed pattern of settlement. We do not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Issues (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the pronounced gender imbalance between senior and junior grades in the public service, the way the restricting of working time patterns and flexible working arrangements under the Haddington Road agreement will not exacerbate this inequality further; the measures he proposes to encourage a greater representation of women at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance if any consideration is given to commercial data, including client data, client projects, correspondence with the Revenue Commissioners or solicitors, in situations where the Revenue sheriff seizes computers; in situations where goods seized are owned by customers or clients where does the burden of proof lie, the way damages to third parties are defined;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance what if any data protection issues arise in situations where computers are seized by the Revenue sheriff; the protocols that are in place in situations where such seizures are sold on; the obligations there are to sell seized goods for the maximum amount possible; if goods seized are sold below a reasonable value, the recourse available to the aggrieved...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue sheriff can make more than one seizure for the same offence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50060/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance the discretion, if any, the Revenue sheriff has when seizure and sale would involve the tools of trade; if consideration is given to the prospect of earnings in the future from these goods; if attachment orders are considered for potential as opposed to actual earnings; the way that is evaluated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50061/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (21 Nov 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of judicial reviews that have been taken in each year since 2007 in respect of the Revenue sheriff; the number that have concluded in the courts; the number that have been settled in advance of a court hearing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50062/13]