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Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise the same issue. Like everybody else, since the news broke last week I cannot get the image out of my head of 800 tiny babies and helpless children neglected, starved and eventually discarded. I respect and acknowledge the endeavours of Catherine Corless and her committee, who initially sought to erect a memorial to the children they knew had died in the home. The extent of...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: An interdepartmental scoping exercise is fine, but it has to happen in parallel with this discovery being designated a crime scene. We know that in previous cases involving mother and baby homes, drug trials took place in some instances. Did that happen in this location? Such questions need to be part of the inquiry. Could such trials have accounted for the very high mortality rates? The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all school building projects in progress, approved and planned in the future for County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23962/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the size or intake a school needs to attain if it is to be considered for the addition of a general purpose room; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24001/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to special needs assistants, if the definition of what constitutes care needs has been changed in circular 0030/2014; if such an alteration in the criteria under which an SNA may be required will lead to a reduction in the numbers of SNAs funded by his Department; if he is satisfied that the definition of care needs set out in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Issues (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in relation to the recent public disclosure that the remains of several hundred children are located at the site of the former Bon Secours institution in Tuam, County Galway, An Garda Síochána has initiated an immediate investigation; if the site has been isolated as a crime scene; if forensic examinations are under way; the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Communications (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the PULSE electronic database used by An Garda Síochána contains a tracking function which displays the name or identifier of each user who accesses or makes alterations to data on the system, and the date and time in each case; if not, the reason for same; if the original design of the database contained this feature and if so,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the level of State support offered to an organisation (details supplied) in each year from 2007 to date; if he recognises that the organisation is a key service provider in the Kildare and wider area; the discussion he has had with the organisation in terms of future funding requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24012/14]

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I too welcome the announcement of a commission of inquiry. That inquiry will be far-reaching. Fundamentally, it will go back to the origins of a state that was controlled by fear and where responsibility for services was often outsourced. This led to a real tragedy for those who lived in and, in some cases, died in mother and baby homes. I will obviously attend the briefing and comment on...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Taoiseach has just given me what is more or less a rundown of what was announced about a month ago. I cannot believe he thinks this is adequate to deal with the current crisis. I wonder whether the Taoiseach has a real appreciation of the scale of the crisis. As he has just said, the €50 million announced for the provision of accommodation for homeless persons in the next two...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I recall the Taoiseach telling us a number of weeks ago that he had gone up to a homeless man on the street and talked to him. I urge him to go to any house for rent in Dublin, its suburbs or surrounding counties. Wha typically happens is that people plead with and beg the letting agents to accept rent supplement and they try to convince them to accept additional money under the table in...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am just about to ask it. What the Taoiseach would notice is the sense of fear and panic people are confronted with when they find themselves in a situation they never thought would happen. My questions are as follows. Will the Government implement preventive programmes to prevent families from becoming homeless in the first place and work with some of the housing charities in that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the management of a college (details supplied) in Dublin 9 with a view to salvaging the institution in a new form; if he has been assured that students who have partially completed their studies will retain credits for work completed; the discussions that have taken place between his Department and management at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of students at primary level in each county and at secondary level in each county broken down by each school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24667/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of whole-time equivalent teaching staff actively teaching in all primary and secondary schools here broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24669/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 428. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the case of applicants for Irish visas who are members of the LGBT community, and whose home countries retain punitive laws against homosexuality and/or transgender persons, there exists a difficulty for these persons to supply full information to consular staff which may be required for certain types of visa if there is a risk that by...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I support the amendment. When people arrive at the offices of the local authority, they are often in a state of crisis and require urgent solutions, some of which may not be forthcoming. As a public representative, I have found myself taking time to explain the scheme of letting priorities when I thought this would be automatic on meeting the local authority. I cannot recall one set of...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The fact the Minister of State has pointed out there is a variety of experience and that some local authorities are excellent, indicates some are not. For example, the in-house language used in this regard often needs to be interpreted. Some of this has to do with ensuring a uniform standard around the country. This may be an issue of training. There is also a vast difference in the...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I generally agree that the length of time is too short, but I qualify this remark by pointing out that the reasons matter. For example, a succession issue is different from squatting. 3 o’clock It can be a different scenario where there is an unfairness to other people who would qualify ahead of those who have squatted.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This amendment was also tabled and discussed on Committee Stage, at which time the Minister said she did not want to direct the courts. I do not want matters to get to the point whereby the courts have to be directed. I think action has to happen at a much earlier stage. The lack of ability to manage local authority estates is part of the problem in that it is seen as exclusively a housing...