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Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: There is nothing routine about this payment which has nothing to do with social protection or water conservation. It has everything to do with creative accounting and Irish Water being able to satisfy the EUROTAT test by being able to issue bills, while rebates will be provided by another Department and, as such, will not be counted in the test. It is a disgrace that we will load additional...

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: What?

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I never opened my mouth about the ESB.

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: What is the Tánaiste talking about?

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I did not make a comparison. To whom was the Tánaiste listening?

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Tánaiste is unbelievable.

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: A first-fix policy.

Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Tánaiste did not answer the question, which is incredibly frustrating. I asked just one question, to which she did not even give an answer about the estimated amounts for which her Department had applied.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Employment Service (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that funding for the County Kildare Local Employment Service network has dropped by over 60% in 2015 compared to 2014; if her attention has been drawn to the enormous impact this will have on the ability of persons to get back to work, at variance with her stated aims of moving persons off social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Policy Reviews (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason citizens who avail of the services of her Department are referred to throughout departmental communications and publications as customers; her views that such nomenclature originates in an ideological mindset more disposed towards a vision of a market-oriented society and, as such, is perhaps unnecessary for a Department whose primary...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason employees holding prison administration and support officer grades are deemed ineligible to apply for vacancies for Civil Service grades in other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5184/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Staff (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason employees holding prison administration and support officer grades are deemed ineligible to apply for vacancies for Civil Service grades in her Department; her views on altering the rules to permit such applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5309/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 265. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of local authority dwellings by building-energy-rating in each local authority area in the State in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5271/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the numbers of grant applications for home energy retrofit of local authority dwellings approved in each local authority area in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the total amount spent in each year towards these grants; the total contribution in each year from local authority resources; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 267. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the most recently available numbers of whole-time equivalent staffing in each local authority in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5274/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 268. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government , using the most recently available data, if he will provide, in tabular form, the total number of local authority dwellings in each local authority in the State; the proportion of such dwellings in each area which are single bed, two-bed, three-bed, four-bed or more than four-bed; the proportion of such dwellings in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the effect the present recruitment embargo has had over the past number of years upon the ability of local authorities to deliver their services effectively; if he will highlight the local authorities which have most suffered as a result of staffing shortages; the measures he has proposed to address these high-pressure...

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister spoke about not having a mandate. I wonder when he will get a mandate. Will it be in the Fine Gael election manifesto seeking a repeal of the eighth amendment through a referendum? Other matters have been dealt with without a mandate. For example, the introduction of a property tax was expressly in the manifestoes of the two Government parties but they said the opposite of...

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: -----and hope that they will not to be stopped. It is outrageous that we are putting them in that position. They want to acknowledge what would have been their hopes and expectations, but which have sadly been terminated because there was an incompatibility with life. There has been mention of postponements and claims about not having mandates while having sympathy and so on, but we...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (10 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans, once access to the records and indexes in the Government Records Office, GRO, is made available at www.irishgenealogy.ie, to provide free access, without charge, to these records and indexes, just as records currently accessible at the site are; what the fee regime will be if not; if she will acknowledge that the...