Results 9,021-9,040 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Data (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of local property tax, LPT, which is deferred on the basis of inability to pay by local authority; the total income from interest in 2015, 2016 and 2017 that arises from deferred LPT; the rate of interest applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39368/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on her engagement with a group (details supplied) in regard to a care facility in County Cork; her plans to meet the group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39438/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for limiting the terms of the mortgage to rent scheme to only those persons that qualify for social housing; his plans to extend the scheme in order that persons with distressed mortgages may qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 755. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are being provided to local authorities to find replacement housing for tenants under the rental accommodation scheme in circumstances in which landlords withdraw from the scheme due to limits of the rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers available to local authorities to continue to support housing under the rental accommodation scheme in rent reviews within rent pressure zones which result in significant differences with open market rent prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39201/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the data which was used in arriving at the baseline for LPT in 2014; when the 2014 baseline was amended in 2017; the way in which the changes were calculated; the further calculation being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39320/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Data (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cases undertaken by the RTB in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016; the number of those cases resolved by mediation; the number resolved by tribunals; the number of enforcement actions; the number of cases which were referred to the courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39362/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 764. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific allocation of funding for homelessness services by local authority; the amount self-funded by each local authority; the personnel dedicated to homelessness services by local authority; the changes which have occurred in each year since 2014; the councils which are grouped in regional bands; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Data (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 765. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff directly employed by the RTB; the way in which this compares to each of the years 2014 to 2016; the additional functions which have been added; the resources which were provided with additional functions; the additional resources the RTB sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Investigations (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 781. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 613 of 27 June 2017, if he has received legal advice on the publication of the final report of the review into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal; if he is now in a position to publish the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39449/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 796. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which persons will be able to view documents, drawings, maps and submissions on planning applications for 100 units or more that will be considered by An Bord Pleanála under the strategic housing development planning applications either by hard copy and or online; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Ms Justice Laffoy for her work, the work of her team and that of the assembly as well as for all the reading material she gave us to absorb over the summer. It was very helpful. Some questions have been asked already and answered satisfactorily so I will try to confine myself to just one or two. In her opening statement, Ms Justice Laffoy said that, in an additional question on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. However, essentially health would have been to the fore.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost per unit to local authorities of refurbishing and or retrofitting existing units in each of the past five years for which figures are available by county; the cost per unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39943/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annualised cost of the average monthly rent paid to landlords under the HAP scheme in each of the years since the inception of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39962/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There must have been some rationale for reopening Stepaside Garda station. If not, a political decision was made to open a particular Garda station. If there was such a rationale, even for Stepaside Garda station, let us see what it was. We were informed by the Garda that the increase in Garda numbers will create a problem in respect of accommodating new members of the force. Some form...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The imminent report that has been imminent for months.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: When Mr. O'Brien was with us earlier in the year, he told us that we would be provided with the report imminently. He then came back and revised his commitment. He claimed that he had not been provided with the report, it had to be given to the people who would be named in it, and there were a whole lot of different things that he had not anticipated. We had him back when the inquiry was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: While it is often very positive when an inquiry is set up, one of the frustrating things is that it closes down other lines of inquiry on things. We need to learn some lessons on that as it possibly closes things down inappropriately. For example, someone who has submitted a freedom of information request before an inquiry has been set up cannot be refused that reply on the basis that an...