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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I recognise the crisis in this area. I meet every day with the people affected, some of whom I would never have expected to have to rent a home. Some of these people are working and others are unfortunately unemployed. The rent caps are a significant part of the problem in areas of high demand. As a public representative, I have run out of things to say to people who come to my clinics...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I would like to hear a response from all witnesses in relation to the rent caps and HAP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: What is the experience with a multi-agency approach? Does it work or is it happening?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister does not.

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will state definitively her Department's official position on and assessment of the true extent of rental top-ups being paid by persons to ensure they qualify for rent supplement; if she has been made aware even anecdotally of the fullest extent of the practice; her view on whether this is an indication of the inadequacy of the design of the...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The shortage of local authority housing means that many people are almost exclusively dependent on the rental sector. Market rents are significantly higher than the rent caps prescribed by the Department, which means tenants are obliged to pay top-ups to landlords. At yesterday's meeting of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, representatives of Focus Ireland...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I just do not know in which country the Minister is living. She certainly is not aware of the reality that exists for people who live in the larger urban centres throughout the country. She is in complete denial. It is an awful pity that, instead of carrying out a head count with regard to who was present in the Chamber yesterday, the media did not observe some of the committee meetings...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Those from the Simon Community indicated that the problem in respect of housing has reached crisis levels. It is no longer just people who have - I hate to use this word - traditionally been considered homeless who have nowhere to go. In that context, I am aware of increasing numbers of families, particularly those with children, who are being made homeless. The representatives from both...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister is in government.

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: There are approximately 90,000 individuals and families on the housing waiting list nationally. If we are truthful with ourselves, we must accept there is going to be an avalanche of repossessions. This means the numbers on the waiting list are going to increase. The number of social housing units that will be built in the next year will only run into the hundreds. This will in no way be...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That is right.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, the Bill has a narrow focus. Part of that focus and part of the reason it is being brought forward is because the Government, in particular the Attorney General, was facing a court challenge due to be held in July which it would have lost, essentially on account of the reasons articulated by the Minister on Second Stage last week. I rang the Ceann Comhairle's office to find out...

Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: We are trying to improve our accident and emergency units yet there is a difficulty in getting the people who most need to arrive there in a timely fashion to these units and a difficulty in how it is organised. The recent "Prime Time" report highlighted in a more global way what many of us saw locally and was very useful from that perspective. I would also like to commend the front-line...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the knock-on repercussions in areas like counties Kildare and Meath where rent supplement cut off levels are exacerbating an already dangerous situation; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that other services of the State are in increasingly high demand as a result of persons not being able to locate...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unfinished Housing Developments (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in relation to lands and property assets held by development companies for liquidation, and where developments are not completed to the planning permission, if the assets transfer to protected creditors, a Government Department, the State Solicitor or any other agency; if any proceeds are made available to complete public services in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way in which he will ensure the stability and continued growth of the domestic renewables sector in view of the European Commission's adoption of new rules on state aid in order to expose the sector to regular market forces; how he will move from the present feed-in tariff arrangement to feed-in premiums over time;...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child care orders sought; the number granted by location for each of the past five years and to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18120/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the full range of services which are available for persons diagnosed with Huntington's disease in the State by location; if the Cuan Aoibheann unit at St. Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park will remain funded and operational into the future at the present level; the intention with regard to this unit; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Projects (16 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in respect of the swimming pools programme, if he will provide a full list of completed projects; the projects that are under way; the projects that are intended to be commenced for which approval has been granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18119/14]

Other Questions: National Archives (17 Apr 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the cost-benefit analysis to maximise the use of the Bishop Street premises of the National Archives is complete; if he will share the findings of the analysis; when he expects to make a decision on expanding the capacity of the Bishop Street premises; the timeframe that is envisaged for the expansion; if a new exhibition space...