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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I should have declared a conflict of interest at the beginning, as I did on Tuesday, in that I have some shares in Eneclann. I wanted to put that on the record. It is obviously a great improvement that there is one central location for the website, but is that advertised? People who do not know that is the official portal may not find it obvious to visit that site. Are there any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: There is not much competition among members for posing questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I have a few questions. My first one is a little off the beaten track. I am curious about the DNA project and how that can link in. Mr. Smyrl might elaborate on that because, clearly, that project is linked to this. If we are to future proof any report it would be useful to have some understanding of such linkage. On the partnership arrangements about which the delegates from the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The one thing that is never in dispute is that there is a North-South unanimity and logic about the records. It was possible for people in Northern Ireland to get records from the census in the South about the North before they were available. There are many of these anomalies and I am sure the reverse is the case in some of the peripheral areas to the Six Counties. In that context, has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: If a Christmas tree was plugged in, we would lose PowerPoint.

Third Report of the Constitutional Convention - Same-Sex Marriage: Statements (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the third report from the Constitutional Convention. I attended all the sessions, bar one, which was useful in understanding the tone of the different issues debated. All convention participants will agree the debate on same-sex marriage was exceptional. I was critical of the convention at the start because of the limit on the...

Third Report of the Constitutional Convention - Same-Sex Marriage: Statements (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I misheard him. From reading the report and various submissions, I felt what was missing was the personal testimony of those raised by same-sex parents. This would have been a good beacon of how this can be debated in a meaningful way and would show the good experience children in such families had. During that weekend, we spoke about other jurisdictions that had taken this on board, with...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be read a Second Time" I thank my parliamentary assistant, Mr. Eoin Wilson, for his help with this legislation, in which we have invested a great deal of time over a considerable number of months. I also thank Councillor Pádraig McEvoy who is in the Visitors Gallery for his input and sharing my passion about the planning system. The Bill's provisions are...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the number of funding administrative bodies has been decreased; the reason funding administering arrangements formerly carried out by six large youth organisations were transferred to the City of Dublin Education Training Board in 2012; if she will indicate who those six youth organisations were; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to amend the property tax legislation to remove the obligation to pay property tax in advance of the year it is due in situations where the sale of a house occurs after 1 November and before 31 December that liability will no longer apply to the party who have sold the house; if he intends making other changes; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will revisit his decision to provide for two newly built vertical schools on one site in Maynooth and provide for a junior-senior structure; in view of the fact that the Education and Training Board, ETB, is the preferred patron for both, if he will engage with it on this option; if his attention has been drawn to the extensive concern...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational reasons for not allowing a junior-senior cycle at Maynooth post primary school; the reason the parents associations were not formally provided with this information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53681/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has concluded his enquiries about the dual enrolment policies and the erroneous designation of Maynooth post-primary school as a Catholic school; if so, the result of the enquiries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53682/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any section of the various roads Acts can be used to circumvent a local authority's responsibility with respect to section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 with respect to taking an estate in charge; if so, what section; if not, if he will issue guidance to planning authorities; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Bonds (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 392. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the extent of unfinished housing estates nationally, some of which commenced construction more than a decade ago, if he will review the guidance to planning authorities on calling in bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53858/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Bonds (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will conduct a review on the extent of development bonds that have lapsed in advance of housing developments being completed, to include the level of exposure to planning authorities; his plans to introduce new legislation/regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53860/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 397. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority may insist on a particular template to be followed where residents seek to petition to have their uncompleted estate taken in charge under section 180(2)(a) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended by section 59 of the Planning and Development Act 2010 and if so, if the local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 398. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if international best practice was met when deciding that exercises involving the principal response agencies are sufficient mitigation work to warrant the possibility of not classifying areas with Seveso sites as high risk or very high risk as proposed in Keeping Communities Safe, pages 59, 93 and 115, and his views...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 429. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend the definition of a multi unit development in the Multi Unit Development Act; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the vagueness of the definition includes all housing estate as opposed to apartment type developments; if he has carried out any enquiries into same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (17 Dec 2013)

Catherine Murphy: 430. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has reviewed or intends to review the effectiveness or otherwise of sections 5, 8, 24 or any other section of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; if so, the way in which he will do same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53751/13]