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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This is the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I just wanted to see whether it was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is not that the Bill has been amended. When this legislation was first announced, the intention was for metering to be in place. We will not now have bills based on meters. I understand that the meters have a 15-year lifespan. Is that the case? Are there relevant contractual obligations? I will run through a number of other issues that I wish to raise. I will be jumping all over...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (3 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that information which schools are requested to collect on parents, medical card status, social welfare status and then forward to the NCSE in accordance with the latest allocation model for resources for children with special needs is done in full compliance with data protection legislation; if she will indicate the use...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. Next week it will be 12 months since the original legislation was rammed through the House. Since then we have had a year of confusion and anger, and one scandal after another, with regard to Irish Water. That is fundamentally about one issue, namely, old politics and a Government using a huge majority to dismiss dissenting voices. There is an arrogance about a Government taking...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (4 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the review of the business case for DART underground by the National Transport Authority is complete; if so, if he will share the findings of the report; the timeframe now envisaged for the project; if it is still the intention to move forward under the existing railway order; if compulsory purchases necessary to the project are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (4 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the business case for the siting of the proposed national children's hospital at St. James's Hospital; the advantages that site has which were the overriding factors in choosing to site the hospital there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46592/14]

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: On the day the Taoiseach was elected and this Government was formed, he talked about his gratitude and humility. He told us we stood on the threshold of fundamental change. He told us:The new Government will tell the people the truth regardless of how unwelcome or difficult that might be. We will tell it constantly and unreservedly. It is the only way because the people always have a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in the pursuit of a vital all-island approach to genealogical heritage, a conflict arises in the different legal regimes surrounding access to digitised records online versus digitised indexes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46866/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This relates to having an all-Ireland approaching to genealogical heritage services. Obviously, there are two legal jurisdictions involved. I wish to draw attention to the General Register Office's birth, marriage and death records. We are out of synch with the North's progress. I presume the Minister will be able to address this matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is all right.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The website of the General Register Office of Northern Ireland, GRONI, provides indexes which lead the user to the actual records. The records that were made available on the website to which the Minister referred had to be taken down because the Data Protection Commissioner had a difficulty with the information that was thereby made available. Now, it seems, there is no such problem....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Will users be able to access the actual records or just the indexes?

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I am happy to support it. I am glad the Government is also supportive of it. Obviously, this motion follows the work in the Seanad. I acknowledge Senator Power's work in particular. It has been important. If this year has demonstrated anything, it is that we can dispel the notion that supporting this type of motion will shake the fragile...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 4:In page 4, line 9, after "Resolution" to insert "of not fewer than two thirds of the Members".The way in which the original Bill was drafted left it open to the Minister to cause the sale of Irish Water. There was cause for further concern in the data protection statements that were included on the Irish Water website. The first of these, for example, referred to the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Cultural Institutions (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has conducted a needs assessment regarding future funding of the national cultural institutions, in particular the National Archives, National Museum and National Library; if she is cognisant of the urgent need to invest in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46865/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the most recent LCP Ireland pensions accounting briefing (details supplied) which estimated the current deficit in the 29 largest defined benefit pension schemes to have more than doubled in one year to €8.5 billion; if her Department had performed a risk analysis of the State's potential exposure if the scenario continues to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Leader funding is also important to less rural counties. It impact is primarily outside the capital city and it is an extremely important fund. There have been criticisms of the fact that in some areas there is a queue of projects, while others do not have the same throughput. It is important that a close eye is kept on the funding and that it is distributed to schemes that are ready to...

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: As we speak, thousands of people are making their way to Dublin for this afternoon's protest. I believe they are coming for two main reasons. They want the Taoiseach to listen and they want to get answers. Yesterday, the Taoiseach claimed once again that all the issues of concern with regard to water charges have been addressed. I hate to break it to him that the thousands of people who...

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: How did the procurement process satisfy EU rules? Why did IBRC choose to accept a bid from Denis O'Brien's Millington for Siteserv when it was actually the lowest of the bids and resulted in a loss to the State of €105 million?