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Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: We have just watched - some of us in total frustration - the fundamentally flawed Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 being passed by the House. The Bill which contains major flaws is not the problem. The greatest flaw of all is the lack of a coherent housing strategy to take account of the bigger picture and focus on the economic and social consequences of how we plan and deliver...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: No one will benefit from a short-term or short-sighted approach to this problem. We need a coherent and multifaceted plan that will encompass several Departments. There are people in third level institutions such as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, NUIM, and the Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, who are doing excellent work on this matter and have written widely on it....

Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: A Cheann Comhairle, can I be helpful?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied that the changed rules governing entitlement to the one-parent family payment will not lead to an increase in the number of children in poverty, currently at more than 200,000; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the changes will result in many families being forced into lower household incomes at a time when...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of recipients of one-parent family payment who will transfer to a jobseeker's payment, family income supplement or carer's allowance on 3 July next; the achieved or expected saving to the Exchequer arising from the changed rules in each year from 2012 to 2015 inclusive; if her Department has evidence that the changed rules will create...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she has proceeded to implement the changed rules governing the one-parent family payment when she agreed on the record of Dáil Éireann on 18 April 2012 that seven years was too young for a family to contemplate removal of that support without a system of safe, affordable and accessible child care in place, similar to what is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total number of whole time equivalent staff for each local authority on this date in 2009 to 2013, inclusive, and at present; if he will indicate in the same table the total number of staff from each local authority who have transferred to Irish Water, including the numbers on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total breakdown of general purpose grants allocated to each local authority in 2009 to 2013, inclusive, and in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27775/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 152. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of all staff employed at Irish Water indicating numbers at each grade, the numbers in each department, the previous employment in each department, that is, those originating from the private sector or from a specified Department or local authority; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate the pension liability for all staff working at Irish Water lies, whether employed directly or on secondment; the amount that has been budgeted for pension liabilities in Irish Water’s initial staffing costs; the amount that is expected to be paid from local authorities and/or Government...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to detail the total sums paid out by Irish Water to date to external contractors, listing the individual contract in each case, including the name of the contractor, the total sum agreed and the purpose of the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27805/14]

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Today, representatives of the Commission for Energy Regulation were due to attend the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht to outline the water charges plan. I have just come from that meeting. The representatives were not able to enlighten the committee because Irish Water did not submit its plan to the commission in time. It was reported in Saturday's Irish...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Taoiseach keeps repeating the same mantra about the investment required. Mr. John Tierney outlined to us that in the region of €10 billion will be required over the next 20 years. We heard from the Minister, Deputy Hogan, that the level of investment is to increase after 2016 from €300 million to €600 million per annum. That frightens the daylights out of people...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: To add insult to injury, Irish Water hired a public relations firm to brainwash people into acceptance. This reminds me of a book by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman entitled Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. The advice given to Irish Water was to start off by describing water as free and then say it costs money, and that by charging for water people will be...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: There is no money for investment.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is almost a year since the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht held hearings during the pre-legislative stage of the climate change legislation. We are still waiting for the legislation. When will it be published? When is it likely to be enacted? Will the sectoral plans be published at the same time as the legislation and, if not, when will they be published?

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: When will it be published?

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 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...

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: We are losing the independence of an organisation that has built up confidence. The EPA will have some unsavoury things to enforce when it comes to sectoral plans, climate change and making sure we stay within the parameters as set out in the Bill. I very much hope, and have a vested interest in hoping, that the words the Minister of State used about the most efficient and cost-effective...

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: As I have said previously, we have been really bad at building institutions in this country. We inherited many of our institutions. If we are merging the cultures of two organisations, it is quite important to give them distinctive roles so that they can maintain some level of independence. I am pressing this amendment because it is the key amendment from my point of view in relation to...