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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I ask Mr. Keegan to comment on the recycling rates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Would Mr. Keegan have gone ahead with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I ask Mr. Keegan to comment on the money spent on consultants, on RPS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Did part of its contract include ensuring compliance with European Commission rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: What about state aid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: RPS would have had an obligation to put the proposal, but at the end of the day the management of the city council would have signed off on it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: When the Taoiseach set out months ago to implement water charges and to burden people with the super quango that is Irish Water, the one stated aim was to turn citizens into customers. It was not disguised and we all recall the Irish Water communications strategy, with six steps to take the person from the citizen mindset to the obedient customer. The Taoiseach has not achieved this despite...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I appreciate that the Taoiseach acknowledged that I am a realist. When Irish Water was established on 1 January, development contributions could have been a key part of funding capital projects, but they were pretty much dispensed with by a circular from the Department. I cannot understand this. There have been no levies applied this year to planning permission applications in respect of...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: We are talking about the need for clarity and certainty and these words are repeatedly trotted out. We heard them earlier this year before the local elections, the protests and the comments by the Commission for Energy Regulation, CER. We would not be talking about this issue today if we did not have the game changer in the middle of October, when 100,000 people took to the streets. That...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Today, those in government are asking the people to trust them and to trust Irish Water. They will have a major difficulty in doing that because of the legacy of what has happened in the past year and a half. We were told Irish Water would be partnered with Bord Gáis to save money, but it transpired subsequently that the amount to be spent in consultants' fees was known by the then...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (20 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to cases where the minimum floor space guidelines for classrooms are being breached; if she will provide a list of these cases; her Department's intention to alleviate this overcrowding in view of the maintenance of the pupil-teacher ratio at the second worst level in the EU; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (20 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the €323,102,783 cash balance of development contributions held by local authorities but which has not been spent, the amount that was paid in relation to water and wastewater services; if this money can be accessed by local authorities now that Irish Water has taken over responsibility for these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (20 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities are still restricted in accessing cash balances of development contributions held by them; if he is considering any changes in this area in view of the significant sums on balance and sums still owed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44676/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Fund (20 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the moneys formerly paid in respect of the since-abolished borough and town councils from the local government fund and through other State grants were factored into the calculations for the awarding of moneys from the equalisation portion of the local property tax for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Bonds (20 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 152. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any development contributions in respect of water services or wastewater services have been attached to planning permissions by any planning authority in the State since 1 January 2014; if any moneys have been taken in respect of these permissions; if any moneys have been returned; if he is satisfied that planning...

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate which is timely given the week that is in it, with the highlighting of the issue by Women's Aid and the powerful symbol we saw outside Leinster House yesterday when a large number of women - 78, about whom we know - who had lost their lives as a result of domestic violence since 1996 were remembered. On drilling down further and following...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I will try not to go over the same territory. Approximately two weeks ago, nurses at Naas General Hospital took the unusual step of going out in protest during their lunch hours. Some of us joined them. The point they were trying to make was that they were presiding over an unsafe service. They took their decision with heavy hearts, as they are proud of their hospital. They were also...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: One thing one never used to encounter was the direction of people from the Leixlip-Celbridge area towards Naas as heretofore, they always were directed towards Blanchardstown and Tallaght hospitals. To an increasing extent, Naas is absorbing that major conurbation and consequently this is a kind of pressure the hospital had never experienced previously. I wish to echo the point about the...

Banking Inquiry: Motion (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Much work has been done by the committee in getting to this point. The Committee on Procedure and Privileges has had a number of meetings and has gone through the proposal and the amendments in considerable detail. One of the amendments, with regard to the euro project, is incredibly important. Deputy O'Donnell spoke about what led up to the guarantee and the euro project is central to it....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on bringing forward legislation to provide for the right of former employees and pension beneficiaries to be represented and negotiate on their own behalf within the industrial relations architecture of the State; the reason such a measure has not been considered up to now; if he will confirm that there is a precedence for...