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An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Deputy Clare Daly for bringing forward this Bill. I favour the repeal of the eighth amendment. I voted not to include it in the Constitution in 1983 and I know that the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, did exactly the same. In fact, the Labour Party was quite heroic at that time. It must be really disappointing for Labour Deputies not to be supporting this Bill. That...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (17 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an itemised list of all disposals made by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation prior to the appointment of a special liquidator; the original value of the liability or loan concerned, in each case; the amount realised at disposal; the method the disposal was made through incluidng examinership, receivership, direct sale or other; the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (17 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of water application packs that have been returned to Irish Water to date; of the water packs returned, the number that have completed the section F declaration; the number that were returned without any completed information; the number that were returned illegible; of all packs returned, the number that have...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I wish the Tánaiste and her colleagues a very happy Christmas. The mention of Christmas conjures up images of joy, warmth and family gatherings around the dinner table. However, for many, that is not the reality. In the past few days we have received reports from Threshold and Focus Ireland and this morning from the Simon Community confirming what is obvious to any of us who has been...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I asked the Tánaiste a number of questions she did not answer. Is the amount of money finite or is it likely to be increased? I also asked her about possible short-term rent caps, increased powers for the PRTB and about something akin to a family income supplement. I acknowledge that from what I can discern, there has been a noticeable difference with regard to community welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Parliamentary Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department performs analysis on the nature of parliamentary questions submitted to it in order to try to ascertain trends and developments which require urgent attention or policy change; if so, the way this feeds into policy formation within her Department; if the nature of withdrawn questions is recorded or analysed; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received revised information as to the number of housing estates which qualify for an exemption from the local property tax since the introduction of the tax; if he will provide a list of all such estates indicating their location and the nature of their exemption, that is, unfinished, pyrite damage and so on, in each case; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance if any portion of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has been accessed by a company (details supplied) as part of a programme of investment; if so, if he will provide the amount and nature of the funds awarded; the conditions stipulated concerning same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49117/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 291. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding stolen firearms, if statistics are available indicating the proportion of all firearms recorded as stolen that are in cases where such firearms were taken from a licenceholder; if she will provide this ratio for each year in the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49103/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 292. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the court challenges which are mounted against a refusal to award a firearms licence, if she will indicate the cost to the State of court proceedings in these matters since 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49106/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 424. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child cannot simultaneously occupy a place on a list for occupational therapy and a place on the waiting list for access to child and adolescent mental health services; if it is permissible for one service to deny treatment based on the fact that a child has attempted to access another service; if not, if he will investigate this matter...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 543. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the forthcoming planning policy statement will be published; the way it will feed into legislation currently being drafted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49107/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (18 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 621. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the final national landscape strategy will be published and implemented; the legislative proposals she envisages to provide statutory effect to its provisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49108/14]

Topical Issue Matters (14 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputies Terence Flanagan, Finian McGrath, Richard Boyd Barrett, Derek Nolan and Jonathan O'Brien - the position regarding accident and emergency departments; (2) Deputy Catherine Murphy - the sudden reduction in available 2015...

Order of Business (14 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We heard announcements this morning of housing initiatives, some of which would be workable and are short term. There is no date for publication of the landlord and tenant law reform Bill, which is on the B list of the Government’s legislative programme. If these initiatives are to be of value, it will be in the short term. Does the Taoiseach have any timeline for the publication of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (14 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is still his policy to seek retrospective recapitalisation of formerly guaranteed institutions; the progress made to date; his views on comments made last month (details supplied) that the health of such banks now points towards a partial selling off of Government stakes; if this course of action is being considered; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (14 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if an application under the direct recapitalisation instrument of the European Stability Mechanism treaty to attain a retrospective recapitalisation of certain Irish financial institutions since the treaty has been constituted; if not, his plans to do so; when it will happen; if this option has been ruled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (14 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions and or meetings he has held in the past six months with the European Central Bank and eurozone Ministers for Finance regarding the stated Government policy of seeking retrospective recapitalisation of formerly covered financial institutions; if he has conveyed any change in policy in this regard to them; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Local Government Fund (14 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all transfers which have taken place from the local government fund to the Central Fund in 2014 by date and amount concerned; all transfers which took place in the reverse by date and amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1750/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (14 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the proceeds from the sale of the combined portfolio off floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds which had been acquired by the Central Bank of Ireland following the liquidation of IBRC, the amount of these proceeds which were destroyed in 2014; the dates this occurred; the amount of interest which was paid in 2014 on the elements of the bond...