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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: Was there any variation in how the minutes functioned?

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: Did Mr. Daly say that there was an electronic record or did I pick him up wrong? What was the format?

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: "Electronic" can have a few meanings, for example, a recording. Essentially, this was done by e-mail.

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: Are the e-mail exchanges held or are they disposed of?

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: If meetings were held when everyone was not in the same place, how were they minuted and who minuted them?

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: We are probably trying to get a flavour of what happened at the meeting as opposed to what decision was made. Would the notes have had the level of detail necessary to show whether someone had taken a contrarian view to, for example, the change in approach to Project Eagle from the pattern of asset or loan disposals in other transactions to date?

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: In retrospect, would it have been helpful to have kept the notes that were disposed of?

Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: This is the first time in the history of the State that the Dáil has the prospect of dealing with its own agenda. This smacks of the same thing we heard from the last Government to the effect that it was a national government. In those days, anyone behind the division barrier on my left was treated as though they did not exist. We are seeing exactly the same scenario today. Either...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The vacuum we were told was being created, has been created elsewhere as a consequence of not including areas that should have been included in the first instance. Amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 55 and amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 68 deal with the entire country and with linking rents to the CPI. Someone who is up for a rent review in a high pressure area outside Dublin will be very...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister has done so because he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to broaden the area from Dublin and Cork. He talked about the science of it. I do not know at what he was looking. The Government has the information-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: -----on the housing assistance payment. In fact, there is information available even in respect of the housing assistance payment. Perhaps the Departments do not talk to each other but the facts are available on the housing assistance payment and the areas in which both rents and the level of demand are highest in the country. If that is not evidence, I do not know what is. This is...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: We favour applying the CPI to the whole country. According to the RTB, landlords frequently do not update figures. As such, its figures may not be reliable. The quarterly Daft.ie report contains good statistics and is based on small areas. For example, there are 17 areas in Kildare. I agree with Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, in that this is the worst of all worlds. The idea behind enacting...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Is that not a vacuum?

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I can completely understand the frustration which has caused the occupation of the particular building in question. It is so offensive to walk around Dublin city and see the extent of homelessness. The Social Democrats supports this amendment. I do not believe the word "planning" should be included in this Bill because it is about development. It will cut out local authorities,...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: That is a terrible record to be drawing on.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: Some areas will be more affected than other areas by this section of the Bill. I anticipate that my area will be one of those areas because the profile of large housing estates is typical of Kildare. Our population has quadrupled in the last four decades and it has been consistent growth, an experience we can draw upon with regard to what does and does not work. Between 2002 and 2006, and...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I support the proposed Focus Ireland amendment. The organisation asked us to put forward the amendment. In the buy-to-let area, there has been an acceleration in the volume of people receiving notices to quit. The point has been made in respect of commercial properties with the tenant in situ. Commercial properties change hands. It is interesting that we were talking about emergency...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 2 to amendment No. 55:To delete the proposed amendment no. 55 and substitute the following:“32. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2):“(3) The setting of rent under the tenancy of a dwelling that is carried out on or after the relevant date shall be linked to the Consumer Price Index.”.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 68:To delete the proposed amendment no. 68 and substitute the following: “33. With effect from the relevant date (within the meaning of section 19(8)) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the setting of rent in line with the Consumer Price Index shall be applicable to all tenancy agreements across the country.”.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is considering increasing the income thresholds for the purposes of qualifying for inclusion on a social housing waiting list; the thresholds from 2011 to date in 2016 and the comparison with the cost of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40489/16]