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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Conservation (23 Oct 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 19. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the fall in the take-up of grants for home energy retrofit since 2011; if his Department has conducted any estimate of the energy costs which would have been saved had the programme been maintained at prior levels; his strategy in relation to improving take-up; the reason the pay-as-you-save scheme has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I have a number of questions. The report on climate change issued last Sunday was very stark. I agree there is no doubt that there is a serious global problem and we are part of it. We have not had sight of the sectoral plans which state our ambition, or so we have been told. I presume the EPA will review them when they are issued. Ireland will miss the 2020 targets and we will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: May I revert on some of these issues in a while?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: There were a couple of points that were not adequately answered. With regard to the licensing of companies, there are some companies in my area and one knows that one would only have to give them the standard and they would keep to that standard, even if they never received a visit. They would want to be absolutely compliant and would stake their reputations on it. There are some very good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency (4 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, spoke on "Morning Ireland" today and told us the Trichet letter was released today because the banking inquiry was up and running. That is not true. No motion has been put before the Dáil and will not be for weeks. The cynical timing is about one thing, namely, knocking Irish Water off the headlines and out of the front pages of the newspapers. There is...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That is the connection between the debt burden and the austerity demands.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Some 43% of the banking crisis was shouldered by just one country, that is, Ireland, and the Government never asked for that debt to be written down.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Will it ask Europe to write that debt off now? Did the Government have sight of the letter when the Government formed or did it have to wait to see the information until it was elevated to the Economic Management Council? Does it change the negotiation strategy?

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister for Finance said the banking inquiry was up and running. It is not and it is not true to say it is. The Tánaiste talks about affordability, but she is talking about affordability for 200,000 people who have been sucked dry. I have been knocking on doors and people have been saying to me that it may look like they have a nice house and a car that will get them from A to B,...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Government going to change its negotiating strategy with the ECB? Did the Tánaiste see the letter while in Cabinet but not on the Economic Management Council? The people are not fools. They know the reason they are being burdened with all of this debt; they are being burdened with something that was not of their making. What is the Government going to do about it? That is my...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: They are in work.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Irish Water Administration (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has signed the order permitting the collection of personal public service numbers by Irish Water as a scheduled body under the Act; if it has been signed; when it was signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42546/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Smarter Transport (6 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the recent publication of the draft policy document, Investing in our Transport Future: A Strategic Framework for Investment in Land Transport, if the target of reducing the total share of car commuting from 65% to 45% in 2020, that is, 500,000 more persons taking alternative means to commute to work, introduced in 2009...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to convey the sympathy of the Technical Group to the family of the late Joe Walsh. This week the Government employed its best agenda strategies to try to detract public attention from Irish Water and, to a certain extent, it has succeeded. It is no longer the leading headline in the news but the Government should not confuse the media narrative with public sentiment. There is...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The one point on which I will agree with the Taoiseach is that there is a legacy of underinvestment. Where money was provided to local authorities and where they built plants, there are some extremely good examples of that money being well spent and producing very good outcomes. We should acknowledge that rather than say it cannot be done at that level. People are not confused. If...

Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to make a contribution to this debate and I believe a wider debate is needed. In an example that graphically displays the issue, a couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a constituent about his father who has been a patient in Naas General Hospital since last July. All Members will appreciate that it is a very emotional matter to come to the conclusion that a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Local Government Fund (11 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if the development contribution fund located at local authority level continues to be set against the general Government deficit; if so the dialogue there is between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43061/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (11 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that removals of greenhouse gases resulting from the LULUCF sector are not counted towards the European Union’s 20% greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2020, the way it is proposed to reduce emissions from the Irish agriculture sector up to 2020 to help meet Ireland's binding obligations;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (11 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the contingency plans and budget he has put in place to address the possibility that Ireland may not meet its legally binding annual greenhouse gas emissions targets under the EU effort sharing decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43070/14]