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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available in situations where teachers and parents at a mainstream school wish to facilitate the continued education of children with moderate learning disabilities due to, for example, Down's syndrome, in that mainstream school environment where they believe this would be beneficial to the children in question, either...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the extreme discrepancy in the numbers of gardaí per capita in counties Kildare and Meath when compared to other Garda districts; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that imbalances in deployment cannot reasonably be accounted for by local crime statistics alone; if it is her intention to raise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the policy underlining his Department's remit to provide specialist preschool and after-school care for children if any research or studies have been conducted to establish the value of applied behavioural analysis, ABA, to certain children with special needs; if there are any findings on the effects of transferring children from ABA...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the guidelines in relation to Heritage Ireland sites and Office of Public Works managed national monuments and national historic properties and their obligations to the local communities which they are located in or near to; if there are guidelines to ensure that parklands which have historically been accessible to local communities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the sanctions he has imposed on the following local authorities which have failed to comply with the provisions of section 7(b)(ii)(o) of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010, when reviewing their development plans for counties Cork, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 530. To ask the Minister for Health the present average waiting time for blood testing for Warfarin patients; the reason the waiting times have increased substantially; if this wait poses a risk to the health of Warfarin patients; if the waiting times fluctuate throughout the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26623/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 626. To ask the Minister for Health he has considered adding Crohn's disease and its variants to the long-term illness scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the extreme debilitating nature of the illness which can present tremendous difficulties to a patient in trying to achieve a normal standard of living; if he will also consider the condition for inclusion on the list of medical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Provision (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 539. To ask the Minister for Health in the case of patients who must travel to a hospital for regular blood tests or other services, such as Warfarin patients, if there are any plans to introduce a shuttle bus service for such patients as opposed to relying on a taxi service; alternatively, if there is a possibility that blood tests could be taken at local primary care centres instead; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 699. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in relation to policy underlining his Department's remit to develop policy in relation to mainstream pre-school and after-school care for children, any research or studies have been conducted to establish the effects of transferring children with special needs from ABA environments to mainstream non-ABA environments; if any policy...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Business of Select Sub-Committee (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is. This is important, but we are seated here at 11.10 a.m. and are in this appalling situation.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: When I received notice of this morning's meeting, I asked that the date be changed because, as I have indicated, Tuesday mornings are not convenient for me. I was the only member who had tabled amendments. Clearly, the poor attendance is an indication that Tuesday mornings are not convenient. I would indicate to the clerk that I am not in a position to attend committee meetings on a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, after line 41, to insert the following:"Establishment and functions of the Office of Radiological Protection 15.(1) The Agency shall establish within its organisational structure an office to be called the Office of Radiological Protection.(2) Management and direction of the Office of Radiological Protection, within the organisational structure of the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It was my understanding that some of the oversight would be transferred to the Minister. Trust is the big issue. The EPA sometimes, because of its function in dealing with matters, is trying to curtail activities. We will see this with the climate action and low carbon development Bill where we will be changing consumers' habits. We will be dealing with fairly big issues, such as,...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: One of the points I would make about the reporting mechanism is that at present the RPII is independent and that is valuable. In fact, that was one of the elements we sought in terms of oversight of the sectoral plans in the climate action and low carbon development Bill. What will happen now is that instead of that independence, the reporting will be done through the CEO and there will be...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I will be opposing a number of sections on the same basis because I think they would have been more consistent as stand alone legislation. I will speak on certain sections in detail but, in general, sections 16 to 18, inclusive, should be separate. I wonder why they are not. Perhaps at a later stage I will speak about the reasons that certain elements have been left out of the Bill.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The definition of radiological protection has been changed to include "the prevention, limitation, elimination, abatement or reduction of the harmful effects of ionising radiation". Perhaps the Minister of State can explain why that has been decided.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am opposing this section for the same reason. Most of these sections, until section 35, will be the same.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I understand it is necessary to list the items that are compensable if damage is wrought by a neighbouring country that has a nuclear facility. I question why two specific items have been excluded from this list, namely, climate and atmosphere quality. Why have they been excluded and, if damage occurred under that category, does that leave us excluded from compensation?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That includes atmosphere quality and climate?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (24 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: There is a change in the definition of "nuclear material".