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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (14 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 841. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way Ireland is engaging with other European countries in crafting 2030 climate targets which target the most cost-effective means of reducing emissions; the potential he envisages in reducing emissions from that sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29045/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (14 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 872. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to roll out the housing assistance payment programme to County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28975/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (14 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 873. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to secure additional funding to purchase social housing units in order to stem the homelessness crisis in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28976/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (14 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 874. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment tenancies that were secured in 2013 and 2014; if these tenancies have resulted in a reduction in the waiting lists for social housing, per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28977/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 944. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is co-operating with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in engaging with the process that is under way at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to establish a global market-based mechanism for international aviation; the way Ireland is ensuring the ICAO mechanism will have...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Oil Specifications (14 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 945. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the State supports a 2025 fuel efficiency standard for cars, vans and trucks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29046/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the housing assistance payment will be confined to existing rent cap limits for rent supplement in locations where those rent caps are being routinely negotiated upwards; if so, how they anticipate acquiring houses under the HAP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29234/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This question relates to the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme. We know the market rents are, in most cases, higher, and sometimes significantly higher, than the capped rents, yet the scheme is supposed to be limited to the levels of the current rent caps as it relates to rent assistance.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The very fact that the Minister of State has selected south Dublin shows that it is the first big urban local authority where there are serious rental pressures significantly above the rent caps. That is exactly the point I am trying to get to. HAP has the advantage of taking that poverty trap out of the system, which I acknowledge, but in fact it could end up being a very costly solution...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I can tell the Minister of State straight off that he will find it impossible to get houses in my area for anything approaching the rent cap limit, even with 20% flexibility. Fingal, Dublin City Council, Dún Laoghaire, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow are all going to be a huge challenge. Has the Government actually looked at where people are coming into the scheme? Are they coming into the...

Other Questions: Building Regulations (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 10. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he and his colleague, the Minister of State with responsibility for housing and planning, wrote to each chief executive of the four local authorities in County Dublin on 10 June 2015 on the matter of building standards; if he will describe precisely the unreasonable and excessive requirements in the standard of...

Other Questions: Building Regulations (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister and the Minister of State wrote to the local authorities in Dublin about building standards. They spoke about unreasonable and excessive requirements. What precisely did they mean by this?

Other Questions: Building Regulations (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We have had many examples of bad decisions being made during a crisis, which is why I asked the question. It is fine as long as the standards end up being good standards and we do not end up paying money in the future for cutting back on something on which we should not have cut back. Insulation standards are an example. We do not want to end up with a situation where we have to retrofit...

Other Questions: Building Regulations (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Sometimes, if one does not put standards in place, one gets the lowest possible standards with the applications. This is a counter-argument to not setting that out. We should seek not to have to end up doing or reversing things in the future. Has the Government looked at other elements of the cost of building other than the standards? I presume it has. What evidence does the Minister of...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Government parties get it as well.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the information supplied to him regarding the steady rise in the number of homeless persons in the Dublin commuter belt region, if he will consider extending the Dublin Homeless Executive model to those areas in the immediate hinterland of the four Dublin local authorities; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number and percentage of claims under the child benefit scheme that are reviewed yearly; if the claims for review are selected randomly or on a targeted basis; if targeted, how is this determined; the number of claimants who have had more than one review in the past five years; the number of claims that have been withdrawn...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Administration (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 has received yet another review of a child benefit claim following just days after the claim was reinstated; if this person is being specifically targeted, given that the person was subjected to several reviews since 2012; if the error made by her Department in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that jobseekers engaging in return to work interviews have been obligated to hand in advice to employers of a grant of €10,000 that is available to employers for every curriculum vitae the employer submits; that the jobseekers have no choice in submitting this letter along with their curriculum vitae, and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation Office (16 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it was possible when the Valuation Office had oversight for foreshores for it to value the foreshore as land within the meaning of section 3 of the Valuation Act 2001; if so, when that remit changed; if it has been transferred elsewhere; if not, the way it is valued; if the foreshore in question abuts a residential unit, the legal...