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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: We all know about the historical memories in the DNA of the Germans about the Weimar Republic, but a new DNA is being developed in southern European countries and even in Ireland regarding lack of growth. Does the Minister think it right that an institution such as the ECB would have its terms of reference established in perpetuity?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (17 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an invalidity pension appeal will be made in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18490/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to combat the illicit tobacco trade and the measures being put in place in view of the forthcoming plain packaging for tobacco products to further discourage the illicit tobacco trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19202/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a student (details supplied) in County Cork who does not have access to a reader for forthcoming State exams and a waiver from assessment of spelling, grammar and punctuation in language subjects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18755/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Establishment (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include representatives of community education in the new education and training boards structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18912/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Fees Waiver (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the Quality & Qualifications Ireland, if the Cork City Network of FETAC Quality Assured Community Education Providers will be added to the list of persons and groups that are receive waivers from fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18930/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 427. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a timeframe for the roll-out of high speed fibre cable broadband in the Kerry Pike area of County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19008/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Qualifications (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 if 3 April 2014, if there is an interim scheme in place to allow candidates already registered under the non-domestic scheme to qualify as a domestic assessor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19253/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (30 Apr 2014)

Dara Murphy: 765. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the inclusion of fampridine in the drug purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18788/14]

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Government amendment to the motion. The Minister of State is a very caring Minister. She has inherited her Department at a time of difficult economic circumstances. It must be frustrating for her to have to deal with the problems while she must work under economic restrictions. Her departmental brief requires significant resources. I compliment...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the rate of deposit interest retention tax from 41% in 2014 on life insurance policies and investment funds back to 2012 levels of 30% in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20009/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (6 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance appeal will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20186/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (6 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20311/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (6 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the capital allocation for a county council (details supplied) will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20262/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the savings that will accrue to the State by reducing the number of post-mastectomy bras to be given to each person following breast cancer surgery, from two bras every year to only one bra every two years; if he will confirm that this saving applies only to medical card holders; if this policy applies nationally; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (15 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 281. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken on the funding crisis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21954/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (27 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when funding will be released to Cork City Council for adaptation works on local authority houses for persons with a disability in 2014 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23327/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: 815. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the nursing home support scheme, the reason the income of children and other relatives who live in the same house, is not taken into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22703/14]

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: This is the reintroduction of a Bill that Deputy Wallace introduced some time ago. Nobody would dispute that what was requested at the time, and did not happen, needed to have happened. After the local elections most of us, particularly on this side of the House, probably feel bruised from the experience, but perhaps it allows us to speak in more blunt terms than we have used in the past. ...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite (28 May 2014)

Dara Murphy: I welcome the delegates. Mr. Taft claimed that some countries with much higher effective rates of corporation tax than Ireland also have a much higher level of corporate investment. That is a rather nebulous statement. Will he explain what he means by "corporate investment"?