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Written Answers — Department of Finance: One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that was paid out under the one-parent family tax credit in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; the amount that has been paid out to date under the single parent child carer tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28282/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Recruitment (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the appointment of a new Secretary General in his Department; if he will list the outlets where the position has been advertised; whether it is essential that reforms within his Department would be best executed and overseen by the recruitment of a person from outside his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland; the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Leader's Allowance Issues (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual amount paid to each qualifying party leader and each Independent TD and Senator under section 1 of the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act, 2001 for the period of 1 January 2011 to date; the frequency and number of payments made to each qualifying party leader and each Independent TD and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Political Funding (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual amount paid to each qualifying party under the Electoral Acts, excluding section 1 of the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act 2001 for the period 1 January 2011 to date; the frequency and number of such payments made to each qualifying party; the formula by which such annual payment amounts...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason broadband service of at least 100 mbps is not available to businesses and consumers in the north-eastern Kildare area; the measures that are being rolled out to address this issue; if he will provide an update on the progress of the exemplar network; if the scheme will be expanded beyond the Dublin area; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the most recent available breakdown, in tabular form, of all costs incurred by Irish Water to date, including contracts entered into but not yet paid and including specifically itemised figures for each of the following categories of expenditure, salaries and wages, bonuses, recruitment, training,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 303. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the commencement notices are no longer being published at local authorities for viewing by members of the public; his plans to rectify same by making the centralised database of commencement notices available for inspection online; if he is further planning to include a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Care Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 497. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied) in County Kildare where there is currently inadequate care being provided to two extremely ill children with a rare, serious condition; if he will provide an update on efforts to provide the children with the precise and expertise care they need in their home; if he will ensure continuity of care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 498. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a list of all nursing agency services who have been contracted by the Health Service Executive to provide medical care by each location in each of the past five years to date; if he will further indicate the number of agency staff who are engaged to provide palliative care and complex care of patients with serious chronic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 499. To ask the Minister for Health the factors that are taken into account by the Health Service Executive when determining the best provider of agency staff; the way contracts are selected; if contracts are put to tender; the oversight that exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28089/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list all occasions in each of the past five years to date where the Health Service Executive found an external nursing or medical staff agency with which it had a contract to be in breach of the contract and basic standards of care; the steps that were taken in respect of each; if any serious consequences for patients arose in each case; if an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 501. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is appropriate that a child with Pffeifer syndrome should not have access to a specialised team of care givers under the home care package which can fully respond to the needs of the child; if the provision of agency staffing to provide care in these instances can lead to gaps in care provision due to a lack of continuity; if it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 506. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the care options that a child with a chronic, serious condition that requires near-constant care is entitled to; if, in providing such care through the home care package, any consideration is given to the continuity of the person providing the care and if this is the best option for the child instead of rotating agency staff; if in many...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the present law and policy architecture regarding food allergies; if he will follow the US and UK models in this area; if he is considering new guidelines for the dispensing of emergency epinephrine autoinjectors at pharmacies and making them mandatory in restaurants and other places where the public consume food or congregate in large...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 537. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list times for children to access allergy testing and consultation; the locations around the State where such services are available; if he will provide general figures indicating the numbers of persons seeking treatment for food allergy related conditions over the past ten years; if there have been increases in the number of cases of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (3 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the current schedule of sale; the cost/estimated total cost of the current €25 billion borrowing used to fund the bond issue, broken down on a yearly basis up to and including 2032; when the final bonds are scheduled to be sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28951/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (3 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the schedule of sale for the bonds that originated from the Anglo promissory notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28954/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Bond Issues (3 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if any, or part of any, of the €25 billion in sovereign bonds issued by the National Treasury Management Agency to buy out the remaining €25 billion promissory note debt have been sold; if so, if any of the money raised from that sale has been destroyed; if any or all of the money raised has been kept for the purposes of repaying the interests...

Other Questions: Gaelcholáistí Issues (8 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the evidence supplied to him from north Kildare parents (details supplied) on the provision of a gaelcholáiste for the north-eastern Kildare region; his response to the findings; if he will open a dialogue with the parents with a view to resolving the matter for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: Gaelcholáistí Issues (8 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I passed a document to the Minister of State detailing a survey conducted by parents in north Kildare whose children were being educated through the medium of Irish in seven gaelscoileanna under a system in which secondary schools had been provided in west Dublin in Lucan and Clondalkin. From 2015 that option will no longer be available because full capacity will have been reached in west...