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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I might not get the chance to thank the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is very likely that we could have several very similar amendments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Members can withdraw them or amalgamate them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his department's expenditure on all rental supports (details supplied) for 2017; the projected expenditure on same for 2018, by rental support heading; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52462/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I want to get information on the various housing support schemes, including the housing assistance payment, HAP, the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and long-term leasing, to try and make sense of them for this year and next year. It would be useful to have projections into the future, because it would demonstrate whether or not this is a sustainable approach, even in the medium term.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: A large amount of money has been announced for Rebuilding Ireland. We are trying to desegregate the capital from the current. Increasingly we are seeing the current amount growing, and given the amount of precarious employment, including zero-hour contracts, low-hour contracts and temporary employment, more people will qualify. The number is growing, and the housing model becomes...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There is an argument that spending to save is another approach. If social or affordable housing units were built there would be a quicker saving on that side and a more sustainable approach. We should be able to rely on the figures from the Department rather than doubt them, and there continues to be a doubt about some of the figures. I will table some parliamentary questions that might...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I am not casually questioning them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: We do.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That is not reliable.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the services available and the way in which they are accessed for a person (details supplied) presenting as a suicide risk who cannot be seen by child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, due to budget constraints and cannot access adult services; the way in which their risk will be managed in the absence of such services; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outcome of the review of HAP rates and maximum rent levels undertaken in summer 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52470/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has systematically collated data in order to understand the current barriers facing a single person household securing a tenancy in a one bedroomed apartment within the proscribed HAP limits for renting a property on the private rented market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52472/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a statistical analysis has been carried out on the number of occasions adults are presenting to support organisations (details supplied); the number of these persons noted as accessing or needing wrap around services; the way in which this is recorded; the strategic planning undertaken to deal with identified growing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has undertaken to assess the inter-county movement barriers between counties assessed as being in tier 1, 2 and 3; the changes he plans to make; the collation of data that has been undertaken in his Department to assess the impact of previously implemented amendments to permit some inter-county changes within certain...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made since 2014 to implement a fully functioning homeless persons unit in counties Kildare, Wicklow and Meath; the strategic planning that has been undertaken to deal with the identified demand for such a unit; the way in which the data is being collated; the other stakeholders involved; and if he...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What happens if we clear correspondence? Do we have to wait to come back to the meeting next week for that to be published?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. Can it be published? What is the story with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thought it was going to be a very simple matter, with the way it was responded to.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to regulatory bodies that are not semi-State bodies, such as the Irish Aviation Authority. Are these bodies audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General? How does the Oireachtas see those accounts?