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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electric Vehicle Grants (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on progress towards the 2020 target for electric vehicle use in the State; the number of EV charge points that have been installed by location and type of charge point in each year since 2008; the number of charge points that have been installed by Electric Ireland at private dwellings, by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Producer Organisations (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the various roles of fishing producer organisations; the oversight and control exercised over them; in what circumstances a fishing producer organisation will be excluded and or disqualified from its role under the common fisheries policy or other legislative provisions; the circumstances in which they will be shut down; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the European and international legislative provisions and relevant sections of same under which fishing producer organisations operating here operate; if he will provide and list the associated provisions and sections of same in legislation here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4250/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the State’s regulation of fishing producer organisations, if he will provide specific administrative arrangements or legislative specifications which differ from those in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4251/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Producer Organisations (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if membership of a fishing producer organisation is at individual boat level; if not, the level at which it is assigned; if he will identify any legislative provision here specifying this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4252/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Producer Organisations (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria which must be met to qualify as a member of a fishing producer organisation; the legislative provisions specifying this; the categories of membership for fishing producer organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4253/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Producer Organisations (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the information provided to the European Commission in relation to fish producer organisations concerning their funding, quota allocation, membership and landings; if he will provide a copy of the most recent set of such reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4254/15]

European Debt: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move:“That Dáil Éireann notes:— that the financial crisis highlighted the deviation from the founding principles and values of the European Union (EU) such as solidarity and mutual respect amongst nations; — the unsustainability of the debt burden imposed on Ireland and other European countries; — that the debt burden is an obstacle to economic and...

European Debt: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This motion refers to the call for a debt conference. It is often said that the most dangerous people are those who have nothing to lose. Too many people across Europe have been put in a position where they feel they have nothing to lose, not just because of the economic crash but how it has been responded to by powerful individuals and institutions who design outcomes in their own interest...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Mitigation Plan (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, now that the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill has been published, his Department's response in terms of the preparation of a sectoral emissions reduction plan; if he plans to prepare a draft plan in anticipation of the national adaptation plan; if such a plan will be left until the latter end of the 2017 timescale...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to confirm funding for the upgraded M7 Naas-Oberstown interchange and Sallins bypass; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this stretch of motorway is the most dangerous in the State in terms of incidents recorded annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4347/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection whether front-line services provided by her Department to the individual citizen have suffered dramatically, given that many urban centres are without community welfare officer access and rely instead on a telephone number which is often not answered; whether she is aware that many persons attempting to make contact with CWOs are doing so in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: In the context of our discussion on this meeting, we considered whether we would do pre-legislative scrutiny of the planning and development (No. 2) Bill. We are obviously working on the No. 1 Bill at present. Part of the reason we were exploring this was to see what would be possible, because what is published and what will end up being in the Bill are very different, given what has been...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the debate on this Bill and I welcome the extension of protection to people who to date did not have protection in regard to mortgage arrears. This is something I and others called for particularly at the time the IBRC loan books were sold when our attention was drawn to the consequences people felt they might face. Many of those who contacted us at the time were furious,...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I thank all those who contributed to the debate. In particular, I thank my colleagues in the Technical Group. We are often described as a disparate group, but this was one motion we all found easy to support. The response of the Government in tabling the amendment was disappointing. The most breathtaking statement in the amendment is the line to the effect that the debt is sustainable and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 16 December 2014, if he will indicate if, notwithstanding the commercial independence of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation at the time, his Department endeavoured to query the reason such a large loss to the State, amounting to over €100 million, was permitted to happen in the sale of the company concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) in County Kildare cannot be facilitated in an appropriate second level school closer than 50 km from that child's home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5088/15]

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to her Department of administering the water conservation grant; the number of staff who have been taken on or it is intended are to be taken on; the total supplementary funding sought in relation to administering the scheme; the anticipated transaction costs of handling the various methods by which the grant shall be awarded; and if she...

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This relates to the conservation grant the Department of Social Protection will have responsibility for paying. What impact will it have on the Department's resources and will it affect other services relating to its core function?

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: It is clear that the announcement was made without that scoping exercise having been done. Not having an indication at this point of the staffing requirements is concerning. According to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, last December, an estimated 1.3 million households of the 1.65 million eligible would apply for the water conservation...