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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, concerning the number of people moving from RAS to HAP.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: May I come back in on a couple of things?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I have a number of points, including the one I made earlier about capturing the number of people at risk of homelessness. Local authorities have different approaches. The problem with community welfare officers is that, with the best will in the world, some people, including families, are being captured far too late. When people contact me I encourage them to talk to the local authority...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but there is a difference in the way some local authorities handle it. We could prevent people from getting to that stage. If we can get over this year, we may well see more housing stock starting to come in. It is critical this year that, as far as possible, we deal with families in particular. It is much more difficult to find accommodation where children are involved because of...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Is the 20% distribution of the local property tax to the local authorities based on the needs and resources model or is it related to a lower property tax? Very often, what happens is that local authorities are deemed to be quite well off because, for example, they have a staffing complement they have to pay and they have a number of swimming pools, libraries and so on. However, very often,...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I have been critical for donkey's years about a historical model being used to calculate these issues. For example, there were wide variations with regard to staffing ratios of local authorities, and that is factored into their baseline. A local authority in Meath has half the staff of Kerry but it has more people living in the county. Kerry is a net contributor, as it happens, so I am not...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: There was a specific question about changing mid-stream. We got less but we had to contribute less. What is the approach in that regard?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I asked about development contributions.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We are here actually.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We have ten minutes each.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I think there are only two of us. There has been a lack of trust in politics. Part of the reason for that is that what is said does not match the reality in people's lives. They can see that very well. Terms like "protecting the core rates of social welfare" are used. The core rates were protected, but many things were lost, for example, in the case of pensioners there were losses of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (4 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money in owed development contributions transferred to Irish Water on property vesting day under section 12(8) of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013, broken down by the local authority to which they were formerly owed; the amount that has been collected; the amount Irish Water has spent on recovering these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (4 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government relating to the composite connection charge levied by Irish Water since 1 January 2014, which was intended to replace the income stream from water and wastewater development contributions, if such charges are appealable under planning legislation; if such charges exist outside the present planning regime; if so, if the...

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

Catherine Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 4 February 2015, the reason he stated in his reply that the sale of an entity by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation prior to its liquidation (details supplied), which resulted in a net loss to IBRC of approximately €105 million, did not meet the financial thresholds which trigger mandatory consultation with...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (5 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that the indicators used by her Department to show labour market participation are of limited relevance for Ireland's youth and their opportunities to move on to paid employment, education or training; that the resources of her Department would be better used in actively ensuring those not in education, training or employment would have...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the most recent comprehensive rent study that shows the highest year-on-year rent increases occurring in County Kildare (details supplied), and that such increases have increased pressure on an already critical number of persons struggling to attain accommodation within rent supplement limits; the measures she is...

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency has conceded that Ireland will fail to achieve its binding European Union 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target by as much as 15%, and a briefing from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, details supplied, notes that a shortfall, in the range of 1% to 4% on the...

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This question relates to the EPA raising the fact that we will miss some of the targets on greenhouse gas emissions and the relationship between that and the delivery of the mechanisms to meet those targets. If we do not meet the targets, we could end up paying hard cash for not delivering on the targets we have signed up to on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I know the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government has the co-ordinating function, and part of the reason we may well have understated our problem is the downturn in the economy and the reduction in traffic movements. We must heed what the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has indicated: if the modelling scenarios are realised, the scale of investment,...