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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan (2 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on delivery of the national disability strategy implementation plan; the number of Departments of State that have submitted their required inputs into the draft plan; the targets that have been discussed under the plan; her views that the plan has taken an inordinate amount of time to prepare; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (2 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that the regulatory regime governing the legal profession as it stands is at variance with the services directive; the full implications of this; the legislative measures that are required; the implications that may arise for persons who suffered a professional loss as a result of decisions taken underneath the flawed...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (2 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the precise criteria used by consultancy firms (details supplied) in determining to which entity to award the original Irish Water tender in 2012; the amount that was paid to said firms for their services in respect of this advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13852/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (2 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 263. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 26 February 2015, the reason appointments were made to the board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland without a public competition; if he considers it good practice to have made such appointments in the knowledge that the Government of which he is a member viewed such...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (15 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is aware that the present housing crisis is one of the biggest contributors to child poverty, curtailed educational attainment and childhood health concerns; his views that the extreme pressures placed on families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness create an urgent child welfare issue in many cases; the measures he proposes...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (15 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 904. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht regarding the recent public consultation conducted on Section 40 of the Irish Wildlife Act, the way any change to the section, if such is to be made, would be made; the instrument that will be used to amend the Irish Wildlife Acts; the time frame for any findings and recommendations to be made to her from the working group she has...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to focus on under-employment and the increasing casualisation of the workforce which is happening in both the private and public sectors. Increasingly, we are seeing this in the teaching profession, for example, at primary, post-primary and university level, and it is having a major impact. There are societal consequences which must be factored in. The more we see of casualisation...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (16 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate, with respect to a person (details supplied) seconded to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation from September 2012, the reports, this person prepared during his tenure at the corporation; if he will make copies of these reports available; if that person's remit was to examine decisions prior to his deployment; the recommendations that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (16 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate, with respect to a person (details supplied) seconded to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation from September 2012, the reason such an appointment was made, if the Minister was, as he has stated numerous times, satisfied that transactions at the corporation were being carried out in the best interests of the taxpayer, in particular, the...

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Operations (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I am disappointed the Minister for Finance is not present, as he was in the House earlier. The first two Topical Issue debates were taken by the relevant line Minister. When I first started raising this issue with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, he told me IBRC operated at arm’s length from the State. As I probed deeper, he conceded his Department was concerned about the...

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Operations (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, went out of his way on the night IBRC was wound down to compliment the board of IBRC. He stated, "I wish to emphasise that the reasons the steps are being taken are entirely distinct from the performance or the direction of the board of management of IBRC." He also stated: "I acknowledge, with much appreciation, the significant efforts the directors...

Topical Issue Debate: IBRC Operations (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: An interpretation of them.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 11a:In page 14, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:"(5) A person shall not be eligible for appointment to the Authority if that person has served as a member of the Solicitor’s Disciplinary Tribunal, the Barristers’ Professional Conduct Tribunal or the Barristers Professional Conduct Appeal Board at any time in the five years preceding the date...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I will have to press it in that context.Perhaps I will be able to talk to the Minister in the meantime.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I am concerned about fairness and the same thing applies to amendments Nos. 49 and 50. It is about bringing another level of fairness and trust into the proceedings of the authority. Part of the reason for the amendment is to ensure members of a disciplinary tribunal which reviews disciplinary determinations are not conflicted by having been involved in disciplinary matters prior to the...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: In that context I will have to press it.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 30a:In page 19, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:"(10) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Authority shall not distinguish between barristers who are members of the Law Library and barristers who are not members of the Law Library and barristers who are members of a professional body other than the Bar Council.".It is intended that the new...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 305. To ask the Minister for Finance if staff which his Department seconded to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation from September 2012 reported to his Department any concerns related to persons working at the corporation (details supplied) and their potential conflicts of interest relating to the disposal of an indebted entity, Boundary Capital; if the person on secondment indicated to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his statement that his Department had a number of concerns regarding the quality of decisions taken at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation over the sale of a company (details supplied), if those concerns specifically included the possibility that a senior staff member (details supplied) of the corporation had a triple conflict of interest in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of bids that were received during the first round of the sale of an entity (details supplied) by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will provide a list of those bids; if the company which was ultimately successful in purchasing the entity was in fact among the first bidders; if that bid amount changed over the course of the bidding...