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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Arrears (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he or any body under his Department's remit is instructing approved housing bodies to actively pursue tenants to pay the water charges arrears; and if those same approved housing bodies are informed in any manner that if their tenants fail to pay the water charges their funding will be affected. [42590/15]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 3 to Seanad amendment No. 48:In section 19(1)(b), in the inserted subsection (2A), to delete paragraph (c) and substitute the following:“(c) include a statement by the landlord that in his or her opinion the new rent is not greater than for a dwelling in the Dublin area (as defined by the Private Residential Tenancies Board Rent Index) the rent charged on the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 5 to Seanad amendment No. 48:In section 19, to delete subsection (2).

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I am speaking on our amendments to Seanad amendment No. 53. Part of the resolution to the housing crisis will be to increase the rights of tenants and to create a situation whereby the legal balance between tenants and landlords is shifted so that tenants can have security of tenure without the risk of being turfed out at short notice and can develop a home and connections with their...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief. In his response to our amendments and why they cannot be accepted, the Minister of State effectively gave the game away with the line that it would interfere with the right to property and by property, one should read the right of landlords to maximise their profit, their rent, from their tenants and, fundamentally, to do what they like with their properties. That sums it...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I would like to speak in support of the Anti-Austerity Alliance amendment and a similar amendment tabled by Deputy Shortall proposing the deletion of section 7(3)(c). We had a tremendous movement from below for equality which was reflected in the massive "Yes" vote in May of this year, which ended discrimination against LGBTQ people in regard to marriage. That was welcomed by the...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the Bill and agree with its different aspects. The broadening of the definition of homelessness is necessary and reflects the reality that there are thousands upon thousands of people in a condition of homelessness. They perhaps do not fit people's traditional image of what homelessness is, which is generally equated with rough sleeping, which continues to persist in our society....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 21 October 2015, if he has met with the Respond Housing Association to discuss and resolve the issue of funding for Cuan Álainn. [42651/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 21 October 2015, his progress in resolving the issue of funding of Cuan Álainn women's refuge in Tallaght, Dublin 24. [42650/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposal for a school campus at the Commons on the Hazelhatch Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, and of the planning application made by the Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board for a primary-secondary school campus at the site; the Department or other body that is currently dealing with this application and the related...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Commons on the Hazelhatch Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, site was purchased; who purchased this site; who authorised its purchase; the amount paid; the zoning status when purchased, that is, agricultural, residential or strategic infrastructure; if the site has been re-zoned; and if the purchase was agreed subject to planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans and intentions with regard to a Gaelcolaiste in north Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43137/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given freedom of information documentation (details supplied) from his Department which shows a meeting between himself and a bidder for contracts for the senior alert scheme while an agency under his Department's remit was deciding on the tenders for those contracts, if this represents a breach of normal procedures in a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is normal procedure for minutes of meetings to be taken when Ministers meet with bidders for State contracts under the remit of their Departments; why minutes of a meeting between himself and representatives of a company in the process of bidding for contracts under the Senior Alters Scheme were not taken (details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 22 October 2015 regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24, the status of the serious delays in the provision of occupational therapy and other treatments from the school age team in the Dublin South-West area; the measures that were taken to improve the Health Service Executive's situation; his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the situation in Tallaght Hospital in Dublin 24 for staff who engage in whistle-blowing, as in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42939/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I thank the delegation for attending and for the presentation. The engagement between the Government and the IFAC over recent weeks has been amusing to watch. Although the Government, at the suggestion and demand of the Commission, set up a body designed to push for austerity at all times and to be independent of public pressure, it expressed its discomfort with that body when it did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: Surely the most obvious vulnerability is US politics, especially in light of the Pfizer–Allergan merger. The merger, which will minimise the amount of tax paid by locating in Ireland, has brought the question to the centre of US politics. It is featuring to some extent in the US presidential election campaign. The most obvious vulnerability is the United States changing its tax code...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: It speaks to a broader point about the extent of our reliance on multinationals for the driving of economic growth and about the nature of the activity that takes place here. We do not deny that real economic activity by multinationals in Ireland has resulted in significant job creation. I believe they account for approximately 7% of jobs. I have read some statistics relating to the files...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: My final question may relate to what we have just been discussing. Many people feel it is something of a paradox that the substantial and impressive headline growth rates that are undoubtedly being achieved are not being felt by the majority of people. That is not just a political statement. In opinion polls, a slight majority of people say they do not feel a recovery. Clearly, some...