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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: Yes, but that fund does not relate to social infrastructure projects. This is what gives rise to the deficit in urban areas. It is for small businesses and allows them to connect with businesses in other cities, etc. However, it is not used in the context of building social infrastructure such as community centres, halls, sports facilities and so forth. It is on the latter that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: We all remember when the farming community highlighted the issues relating to the CAP in their protest in October. This aid programme is very important and I hope that during our Presidency it will be to the forefront in our considerations on this area. Ireland's overseas aid programme is approximately €639 million and the EU aid's programme is €3.3 billion and, therefore, any...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund (5 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to provide funding for urban community centres under the dormant accounts scheme or other programmes in view of the fact that centres in urban areas cannot access schemes such as LEADER; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5082/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund (5 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grants or funding available to urban community centres under programmes administered by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5081/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Education Schemes (5 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the application for a place on a momentum course by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 will be reconsidered, taking into account that they have been unemployed since December 2010, apart from March to October 2012, when they received illness benefit, and in view of the fact that their eligibility would not be in doubt if they had not been sick...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: We are in the middle of a fast-moving offence this evening with respect to the promissory notes and the ECB. As we await confirmation of the facts in this regard, I take this opportunity speak about an element of our national debt which I believe has not been part of the public debate but should be considered in any deal with the ECB and EU, resulting in fair treatment for Ireland. In...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, column 1, lines 40 and 41, to delete “Dublin Bay South” and substitute “Dublin South East”.I do not challenge the independence of the commission or the outcome with regard to the boundaries and the number of Deputies. However, I wish to challenge the change made by the commission in its report of the name of the constituency...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I am sure the Minister is aware that my colleague, Councillor Richard Humphreys, has made a strong presentation on the proposal to change the name of the Dublin South constituency. I will leave it at that.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: The Minister can deal with the amendments that are tabled only.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Minister for his response. I can understand the difficulty in that he does not want to reopen this issue given, as he said, it is like Pandora's box and he would be lobbied on many other cases. I point out to the Minister that when this went out for consultation, it was not in people's minds that there would be a change. Normally, up to this point, we would have been talking...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: No, it is nothing like that, or perhaps it was a little like that, but it needs to be explained. Until recently, Terenure was split down the middle, with nine Dáil Deputies and some ten councillors all representing one area. If there was a meeting, there were almost more public representatives at it than community groups. I recognise there was a certain logic in the commission's...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: There is an association and an affinity with a community.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: There was quite a significant increase in turnout within areas, certainly within one of the areas in my constituency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I apologise if the following matter was dealt with earlier. I had to attend the Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government for a meeting on an important Bill. In recent months I came across a lead story in which stated that the information which followed was discovered by a news agency through freedom of information. As it happened, I was nearly sure I had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: There is an issue in researching a matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I take Ms O'Kelly's point about the user group. I have strong views on where the State has a monopoly. Irish Water and the grid, for example, should be covered by freedom of information. On why the delegation is before the committee, they refer in their own submission to the public interest. Often I have a question over the public interest. Unfortunately, the group that is here is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I ask the witnesses this question while they are here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) with National Newspapers of Ireland (7 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank all of the witnesses for attending this morning's meeting. I also thank them for the remarks made earlier about the former Minister, Eithne Fitzgerald, in the context of the introduction of ground-breaking freedom of information legislation. We often concentrate on the negativity of freedom of information requests, but this can lead to positive change in terms of record keeping and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) with National Newspapers of Ireland (7 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: What were the questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) with National Newspapers of Ireland (7 Feb 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: I feel strongly about the public private partnerships. They have been abused in the past. I am in favour of moving back to the spirit of the legislation introduced by Eithne Fitzgerald. With greater freedom, however, comes greater responsibility. The media must live up to that responsibility in manner information is reported when it is made available. Sometimes the banner headlines do...