Results 1,181-1,200 of 12,298 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 299. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected payment schedules for future housing projects funded by the National Asset Management Agency; and his views on claims that there are administrative blockages in the agency, which appear to be hindering the release of funds to contractors and design professionals for works carried out in certain projects to date. [37702/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports that in many projects funded by the National Asset Management Agency design works are required to be completed prior to any funds being paid to design firms; and the average time projected for payments to project design professionals for work to be undertaken on future agency housing schemes. [37703/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is an inspectorate for refuges for those persons escaping domestic violence; if this inspectorate examines the standards of the buildings used, cleanliness and safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37649/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 806. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the response times and the depot of departure of ambulances responding to Echo and Delta calls in north Kildare from September 2014 to October 2015. [38095/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for treatment at Naas Hospital in County Kildare; the treatments for which they are waiting; the time they have been waiting; the number of persons transferred from the hospital's waiting lists to the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and the cost of this transfer. [38096/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Treaties (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 873. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the recent parliamentary elections in Switzerland, his views regarding the renegotiation of bilateral treaties between the European Union and Switzerland concerning the free movement of persons and banking secrecy. [37393/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 877. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent election that took place in Egypt. [37767/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 886. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the possible revocation of Jerusalem residency of Palestinian communities on the outskirts of East Jerusalem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38097/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (3 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 1078. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will legislate or issue a ministerial directive, as necessary, to the local authorities to permit persons (details supplied) who have surrendered their homes to the banks to join the housing allocation lists, which is currently a condition for making a successful application for rent supplement. [37911/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the negotiations between the European Union and the United States of America on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37225/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister to report on the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, between the EU and the USA, particularly in light of the large and unprecedented protest in Berlin, involving 250,000 people, which reflects the growing understanding that, as John Hilary put it, "TTIP is correctly understood not as a negotiation between two competing trading partners...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Minister's answer reflects the soporific strategy of the European establishment, which is to refer to large numbers of potential growth that are not based on reality and then to tell us not to worry because none of the concerns that people have will come to pass. Let us consider the question of the environment. In January, we had a concrete promise from the EU to safeguard green laws,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I simply do not believe, nor do those watching us, that the right to profit will not take precedence over the right to regulate. The big winners will be large corporations and the losers will be small businesses, consumers, working people and the environment. In the draft text the definition of "expropriation" is being expanded dramatically. We know have terms like "measures...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the implementation of the Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37226/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister to report on the Action Plan for Jobs. Does he agree that it is not an action plan for decent jobs or work but instead a plan for driving down working conditions, normalising people working for free, driving an agenda of tax cuts for big business and increasing corporate welfare?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Minister's use of the phrase "improving the business environment" gives the game away. The approach of the Fine Gael Party, to which the Labour Party has unfortunately acquiesced, is based on the idea that the State cannot create jobs but can only create the environment in which big business can create them. To achieve this end, businesses must be incentivised. This approach lies at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Let me tell the Minister about some reality. In my constituency a number of places in a vocational training opportunities scheme, VTOS, which is a further education scheme, were cut and instead we have extensive use of the Gateway scheme whereby hundreds of peoples have been working for €1 for 20 hours a week for almost two years. They are involved in protests against the scheme,...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I want to take up where Deputy Tom Fleming finished, which is the notion that this Social Welfare Bill is part of the fifth regressive budget in a row. It takes some doing by the Labour Party to stand over five budgets throughout the course of a crisis that managed to increase the gap between rich and poor and, in reality, increase the gap between the rich and the rest and transfer wealth to...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for local authority housing in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38323/15]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: What are the Minister's plans for local authority housing in the coming year? What is the number of homes proposed to be built? Do those figures not badly contradict the notion that this will be the largest social housing programme in the history of the State, instead indicating that this is the usual approach of pretending to do something about a real crisis while being a completely...