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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Training Support Grant (6 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount provided in training support grant in each of the years 2015 to 2017, by amount paid, to each supplier of training; the number of training suppliers that are based in Northern Ireland in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5451/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in the first steps programme who have been referred to JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5454/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the JobPath scheme who have availed of the training support grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5501/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 23 January 2018, the number of treatment abroad scheme payments issued by year since the inception of the scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a company (details supplied) can conduct and issue an exit review in a client's absence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6152/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a JobPath provider obtains a level of information on a person (details supplied); her views on whether it is appropriate for such information to be stored on a JobPath provider's database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6261/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if private companies and-or bodies are permitted to accept the public services card as a form of identification in the context of section 5 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6153/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I apologise for not being here earlier but I have the opening statement and I will read the transcript. We need a universally accessible transport system, whether a person is in a wheelchair, pushing a buggy or mobility or visually impaired. That should be the object of the exercise as a right. Part of the reason we are doing this exercise is the European directive that requires us to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: May I stop Mr. Moran there and ask him something about the ramps? In his experience, are there ramps that, like the steps on a Ryanair plane, are embedded in the trains and automatically deploy? Is that a scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I apologise. I interrupted Mr. Moran's replies to the other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Neither of us is Independent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is important to have this exchange of views as we will be writing a report on the matter. There are positives and negatives which we need to consider. There is an EU directive on accessibility and the main focus of attention is on rail. Can the Minister tell us what the response from his Department will be to that? When does it have to respond to the directive? Is there a timeline for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I am talking about when Bus Éireann does not win the contract and it is a private contractor on Expressway. In that case, they have two years to upgrade. It is something that should be insisted on from day one otherwise there is the very real prospect of going backwards where there is an accessible fleet and it is not a like-with-like situation. I may have misunderstood. That is my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It was definitely-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It was definitely the NTA. It is not a like-with-like situation. I am happy to go back and look at the notes I have. If I am wrong, I am fine with that. The one thing we do not want to do is go backwards. That is the point I want to make. The response to one of the questions I asked was that there was a pilot study done on retrofitting, which was done up to ten years ago. Could the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Or Jack O'Connor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: If we can we get a rough idea it would be helpful. Can the committee also get a rough idea of how the case that was made? If the Minister argued for the money he must have had a case and the Department must have audited the needs. I welcome that fact that the money will be there. We are not having a row about it but we do need to know what we require to get up to a point where we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: But the Minister does not know what he promised.