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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the pilot scheme for the housing assistance payment has commenced; if so in which areas; if not, the timeline for the pilot scheme; the dialogue he is having with the Department of Social Protection on this issue; if any extra staff will be deployed to local authorities to administer the scheme in the absence of staff...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has recommended or otherwise pursued with wind industry representatives on the matter of an index linked bond relating to wind farm developments to ensure responsible management, decommissioning, where necessary, and possible restoration of obsolescent sites in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.162 of 21 November 2013, the reasons that exist under the Data Protection Acts for the non-return of seized data equipment by the Revenue sheriff to persons; the way the Revenue sheriff makes the information held about persons on such equipment secure; if his attention has been drawn to any breach of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (10 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses. I must declare a conflict of interest, not in this section but in one of the other sections. It is in respect of Eneclann, which will appear before the committee. I have shares and I must declare that as a conflict of interest so that we do not run into difficulties later. I probably must declare another interest because I have a passion about this subject. I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (10 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses. This has been a very interesting session. It was deliberate that the committee invited such a diverse range of people to attend, who while they do not make up an exhaustive list of the groups involved in this area give us more or less a taste of the various strands that will provide for a plan that will include all of the records that are available. In other...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I also express serious concern about a number of amendments that have been ruled out of order. Many of these were also tabled on Committee Stage and were not accepted on Committee Stage. In some cases there was a commitment to make changes. However, they have been ruled out on Report Stage. I do not understand how they can be allowed on Committee Stage and disallowed at this Stage when...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The culture is dictated by that control mechanism. Essentially we are limiting the prospect of real change and engagement by not taking that on board. That is my honestly held view, having been a member of a town council and a county council for a long number of years. The Minister said that he would have a look at my amendment No. 15 and I will be interested to hear what he has to say....

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: As I have said on numerous occasions, and will say again, I am not arguing that every town council should be retained. The Minister said the coverage is 7%. There is a lesson to be learned from some of the functions that town councils carried out that are necessarily going to transfer into the municipal district councils. The county councils tended to focus much more on what I would call...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 5:In page 28, after line 36, to insert the following: "19. (1) The Minister shall as soon as is practicable and in accordance with this Part establish an Advisory Panel on the Future Development of Local Government (in this Part referred to as the Panel).(2) Membership of the Panel shall comprise of three persons appointed by the Minister with the consent of the Joint...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the point made by the Minister in respect of local government proofing services. It must be an ongoing and dynamic thing. We would agree that it is not going to happen unless it is that. My concern was that oversight and audit would be counting what is in place rather than looking to the future. I was wondering how that was going to happen, which was the motivation for my...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 15:In page 33, to delete lines 5 to 8 and substitute the following:“(b) A local authority may, by resolution and having received the prior consent of the municipal district council concerned, revoke the delegation by it under this subsection of a function, but the revocation is without prejudice to anything previously done by virtue of the delegated function.”.

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: First Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 and related Acts in order to better regulate and bring greater transparency to planning and development activities in the State by establishing a national planning compliance register; by introducing new requirements upon planning authorities in the consideration of permission; by...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: First Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Liquidation (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: During the consumer impact section of last February's debate on the promissory note deal, the Minister for Finance made a point of saying it was "critically important that deposit account holders, mortgage account holders and those indebted to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, understand that their situation following the liquidation should generally remain unchanged". I have been...

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Liquidation (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The key point is that they do not feel they are being treated fairly and that moral hazard only seems to apply to the little man. There is an inadequate supply of funding in the Irish banks and they are not interested in taking on these mortgages - even those that are performing. We can assume that the people who will be interested in purchasing these loan books and particularly the...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 27:In page 44, line 13, after “development” to insert “in partnership with the local communities”.This matter came up on Committee Stage as well, when Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan sought assurances that it would not impact on partnership with local communities. Some very good work has been done there and an input is required from those...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 29:In page 46, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“(c) to implement, or to arrange for the implementation of, the Plan (as the case may be) having been considered and approved by the local community development projects/structure or local development company,”.This amendment seeks again to bring local groups into the setting of a community...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. I move amendment No. 33:In page 48, between lines 40 and 41, to insert the following:“(b) The Committee shall submit the Plan for consideration by local community development projects which currently operate by local voluntary management committees, and the local community development projects’ management committees shall adopt a statement in that regard indicating...

Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: In that context, I wish to withdraw the amendment.