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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 678. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for the provision of broadband services to residents in Allenwood in County Kildare and surrounding areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15452/15]

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: As we are taking a number of amendments together I assume I can speak to amendments Nos. 30a and 49e. I wish to expand on some of the points I made last night. The new Bill will give the authority the power to distinguish between barristers who purchase services from the Law Library and those who do not, and that is not very fair. It will force non-Law Library barristers to be individually...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: What was the number of the amendment?

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I accept the Minister's bona fides and am happy to withdraw amendments Nos. 49e and 80b. I am sure that if she will consider it further and bring it to the Seanad, she will do that. The Minister and I may well be trying to do the same thing but what I am trying to achieve with amendment No. 30ais to make sure there is no distinction between barristers. We are giving professional bodies...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 49a:In page 35, to delete lines 25 and 26 and substitute the following:“35. (1) Subject to subsection (2) a legal practitioner shall be entitled to hold client moneys of clients and no professional code shall operate to prevent a legal practitioner from holding moneys of clients.”.Essentially, this amendment seeks to change the terminology so as not to...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I seek clarification with regard to amendments Nos. 49aand 49b. The Minister of State referred to section 99 and said it was a critical part of the public consultation process. Can he clarify that there will be another opportunity to deal with client moneys in that context? I refer to amendment No. 65a, which relates to contentious matters. I accept that the Government is pursuing this...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 49c:In page 37, line 39, to delete "Bar Council" and substitute "Authority".I have tabled these amendments because I believe it is clear that the Bar Council is not the competent authority to supervise professional indemnity insurance. It is not the exclusive regulator of barristers, as the Law Society is for solicitors. One can make a distinction, and there is quite an...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 53a:In page 66, to delete lines 4 to 37, to delete pages 67 and 68 and in page 69, to delete lines 1 to 36 and substitute the following:“Levy to be paid by Law Society, Bar Council 79. (1) Subject to section 81, the following shall, in accordance with this Part, pay to the Authority in each financial year a levy in the amount determined in accordance with this...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I am in favour of the different models and I think we are at one on that. I will withdraw the amendments I tabled.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 80b:In page 80, to delete line 6.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 91:In page 118, to delete lines 26 to 39, to delete page 119 and in page 120, to delete lines 1 to 4 and substitute the following:"151. (1) The Authority may, with the consent of the Minister, make regulations in relation to commercial communications by providers of legal services in a regulated profession that relate to—(a) the independence, dignity and integrity...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I am happy to accept the Minister's bona fides on this issue. I am worried that it if this is not done in the Seanad, it will not be done in primary legislation. If the Minister can give me an absolute assurance that this change will be made in the Seanad and will subsequently be considered here, I will be very happy to withdraw this amendment.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that issues of working time and conditions recently raised at teacher conferences have exposed a prevailing and growing casualisation of labour within the teaching profession, which is to the detriment of the profession as a whole; if she will further recognise that for the public sector to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Data (22 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if and when the Road Safety Authority website database of Ireland road collisions ​ will be updated with details of such events that have occurred since the site was last updated for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15910/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (23 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimate, per housing authority area, of the number of new builds that will be completed in each of the next three years, under the recently announced programme to tackle the homelessness crisis; the factors that led to the wide variation in the projected spend, per person, on the waiting list across...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (23 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to establish a tenancy protection unit in any area outside Dublin; if he recognises the urgent need for such a unit in certain high-pressure areas suffering from local housing crises; his plans to resource local authority staff to enable local authorities to provide even a basic housing service; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (23 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the point at which the decision was made to start drafting of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013; if it is the case that the strained relationship which existed between the management of the corporation and his Department, referred to in correspondence from the time which has come to light very recently, had a bearing on the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (23 Apr 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if the closed process by which the former Irish Bank Resolution Corporation disposed of a company (details supplied) was fully in compliance with European Union competition and state aid rules; if he received any correspondence from the Commission in relation to same; if so, the details of the Commission's interest; and if he will make a statement on the...