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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (11 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Disability Team's occupational therapy services are consistently unavailable for a child (details supplied) in an urgent situation; the reason the services of an early intervention team remain unavailable, following a very urgent referral in March 2015 for this vulnerable child, where such intervention in a timely enough manner would...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Archives (12 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the serious challenges which exist to the proper digital preservation of records at the National Archives; her views that the urgent onus should be on the prompt preservation of such records to best international standard to eliminate the risk of degradation over time and counter inevitable technological...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Library (12 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 34. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware that the present funding situation at the National Library of Ireland is having a direct, detrimental effect upon the ability of management and staff to ensure the safety of the national collection against water and fire damage; that only 1% of the collection is preserved and secured to international best practice...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry Funding (12 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the thoroughbred foal levy, administered by Horse Racing Ireland since 2000, is presently calculated using the advertised fee of the sire of the foal being registered, and not on the actual value of the foal, nor on the actual fee paid for the stallion in question; if he is further aware that under this...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry Funding (12 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that there is no mechanism in place for a refund under the thoroughbred foal levy, should a foal which is subject to it die or become injured; if he will address this anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39921/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (12 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given that the adoption of a local authority budget is a reserved function under the Local Government Act 2001, if he will clarify whether the adoption of a local authority capital programme is likewise a reserved function; if not, if he will clarify the legal status of such a programme if it fails to receive the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (12 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority draft budget can be deemed to have been duly considered in accordance with the Local Government Act 2001 and the Local Government Reform Act 2014, if the process for adopting it has prevented any motions tabled by elected members seeking to amend it from being...

Multi-Unit Developments (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This is a very simple Bill. I tried to get this issue addressed in the first instance a few years ago by getting the evidence and giving it to the Minister in the hope that it would be included in an amendment to another Bill, but that has not been forthcoming. As a consequence, I decided to table this Bill. It is very simple. It is...

Multi-Unit Developments (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the contributors to this debate. I agree with much of what has been stated about the residual issues in the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011. I deal with them routinely. I know of examples in various estates. Every management company is set up differently. A part of the problem is that there is no universal response, but that is also a reason not to make the situation worse,...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: It is obvious from the empty Chamber tonight that the Government does not view the current housing crisis as the emergency those of us on this side deem it to be. If one asked people to identify their two most basic needs, their response would be food and shelter. For a sizeable proportion of our population, one of those basic needs, namely, shelter, is precarious to say the least. I...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to redeploy her departmental staff, at varying levels and grades, who are engaged in the national rents units, due to the phased coming onstream of the housing assistance payment nationally; her plans to redeploy staff to frontline services which have been seriously cut back in recent years, including with the closure...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 5 November 2015, if she will provide, copies of the detailed service statements which the contracted JobPath companies are required to abide by, in delivering specifically tailored job search assistance activation services to customers, under contract with her Department; the full...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law Review (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 335. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in so far as it falls within her remit, she has undertaken an impact analysis of reforming the present criminal penalties for prostitution towards adopting the models utilised in Sweden and Northern Ireland; if she is aware of the projected impact in terms of Garda Síochána resources which would be required to implement such a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 557. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the provisions in place to enable a homeless citizen to vote; and if there is no present provision, the measures he plans to introduce in time for the forthcoming Dáil Éireann election. [40175/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Policy Issues arising from Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Discussion (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: If a regulator was put in place, it would extend to the entire country. That has the potential to increase costs for people. At the moment, if I hear complaints about anything, they are about the cost of funerals rather than that of erecting headstones. Funerals take place at a time when people cannot shop around, which is the point that was made by Ms Goggin. We must be very careful not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Policy Issues arising from Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Discussion (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I was just making the observation that it is probably a more viable route-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Policy Issues arising from Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Discussion (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I asked a question about the comparable cemeteries that would have an historic aspect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Policy Issues arising from Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Discussion (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Is there a contribution towards the maintenance of the historic cemeteries from public funds?

Other Questions: Employment Rights (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware, in so far as it relates to his public service and Civil Service oversight remit, of instances where compromise agreements have been offered to public servants who wish to avail of voluntary redundancy, in place of the traditional terms; if he is aware that previous determinations by the Labour Court have indicated that...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: My question relates to the offering of compromise agreements to public sector staff. An individual has approached me who claims the procedures set down in the Labour Court were not followed in that person's case. It was essentially a case of a gun to the head. I am concerned with establishing the views of the various Departments involved on this matter.