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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 619. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rail stations at which wheelchair users can independently access train services; the rail stations at which wheelchair users are required to give advance notice in order to access the train service; the number in each of the cases of hours that the station is unmanned; his plans to upgrade stations in order that rail services...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The Irish Planning Institute makes the point that there is a myriad of guidelines that are confusing and that it makes it more difficult to make decisions. It is almost a convenient way of blaming a cohort of society, namely the public who have an interest in the planning decision by virtue of living beside a development that is planned. They appear to be the cohort that are being cut out,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I agree with some of the points made by Deputy Ó Broin and his questions. One usually only gets public interaction when there is a large scale development of 100 houses or more. This is a particular category that draws public comment but the opportunity for meaningful public interaction has been cut out. A developer has six months to respond to a request for additional information....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Has the Department carried out a risk analysis?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, has outlined his rationale for this measure and as he is entitled to his view on it I feel that I am entitled to mine. This is a monumental error. It is the kind of stuff we would expect to be written by the Construction Industry Federation. This is more to do with development - or a hope of development - rather than planning. With a really robust planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: It is by way of guideline.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I acknowledge that I have misread the matter. The provision is at serious variance with how people have engaged with the planning process to date. This section is a monumental error and one that will cost. For example, local authorities will consider compliance matters at a later stage. They must interpret some of the conditions that will be applied without having an opportunity to avail...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: There is a big difference between influence and power and the power is where the decision is made. County councils will not be making the decisions on these planning applications and An Bord Pleanála will now make them. A court-based process like a judicial review is not an appeal process because it does not deal with substance but with technical arrangements around which the decisions...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: It is a rowing back of an entitlement by virtue of the fact that there is a single process rather than a dual process in respect of the planning authority and An Bord Pleanála. There is every chance that there could be a process to challenge this by virtue of the fact that it rows back on something to which we signed up. The Aarhus Convention includes the planning process. The...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: We got a list with the grouping.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I assume I can speak to amendment No. 118 when it comes up separately rather than in terms of the grouping?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Amendment No. 118.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I did not refer to amendment No. 118. It was not clear that this was being taken here, but the Minister of State has responded to it. My intention with the amendment was around the provisions of Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 which covers the taking in charge of housing estates. It says that where the local authority has not taken an estate in charge seven years after...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: It just appears to be-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Minister of State need me to submit something or will he bring forward a proposal?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I endorse the point made about not returning the fees. The mind boggles on this. If a person lodges an objection to a planning application in the normal planning application process at the local authority level, and if the application is withdrawn, the person who paid €20 of their hard earned cash for their objection does not get that back. The Construction Industry Federation is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the VAT on adult motorcycle helmets and cycle helmets from the standard 23% rate in line with the zero rate on children's safety helmets in view of the fact that they are an essential component in motorcycle and bicycle safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40257/16]

Public Accounts Committee: Policy on the Retention of Contemporaneous Notes in the Preparation of Board Minutes: National Asset Management Agency (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses cited best practice, but it is not unfair to say that "best practice" did not prove to be best practice. Mr. Daly stated that, were he to change something, NAMA would have kept a better record of the rationale for decisions.

Public Accounts Committee: Policy on the Retention of Contemporaneous Notes in the Preparation of Board Minutes: National Asset Management Agency (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: It did not prove-----

Public Accounts Committee: Policy on the Retention of Contemporaneous Notes in the Preparation of Board Minutes: National Asset Management Agency (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Maybe the difference between NAMA and the top 100 companies was that NAMA had a different role and there was a public aspect to it, in that it was disposing of loans, assets or whatever. Did the same person take the minutes throughout 2013 and 2014?