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

Paul Murphy: Is contract manufacturing a part of that? It appears on the balance sheets and is included in GDP, but it does not necessarily relate to anyone producing anything in this country.

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

Paul Murphy: You say "as well".

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 340. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will request Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to meet with representatives of the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of funding for their counselling services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43811/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to meet with the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of funding for their special needs programme and for a clinical director of counselling services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43809/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who needs respite care from St. Michael's House and the Health Service Executive. [43810/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to meet representatives of the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of a dedicated literacy co-ordinator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43812/15]

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the motion. It is scandalous that the Government will reject it. I want to highlight an issue that underlines the need for the anti-corruption agency with a monitoring and investigative role over public procurement activities for which the motion calls. Public procurement is a key area in which the space exists for public representatives or others to interfere with public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (9 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons employed on lower rates of pay due to participation in an apprenticeship or training. [37223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the new builds and acquisitions to be completed and the new units to be provided by housing associations under the capital assistance scheme by local authority area in the second half of 2015 in tabular form. [44272/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the figures provided to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on 24 November 2015 projecting 950 local authority new builds and acquisitions and 440 new units under the capital assistance programme by the end of 2015 when compared with the latest on his Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has analysed the proportion of council homes purchased under previous tenant purchase schemes that have ended up owned by landlords in the private rented sector, and how many of these are rent supplement, housing assistance payment or rental accommodation scheme tenancies. [44274/15]

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: It was truly shameful to see Deputies Wallace and Daly jailed yesterday for their part in highlighting the disgusting role the Irish Government has played and continues to play in facilitating warmongering and the killing of ordinary people in the Middle East through the use of Shannon Airport. For most people, that contrasts very greatly with the inaction we are likely to see in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (10 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 170 and 171 of 2 December 2015, if procedures exist for accidental or unscheduled meetings that may take place between Ministers or senior officials and bidders for State contracts under the Ministers' remit, and if such policies contain an obligation to take note of the topics...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Meetings (10 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received any written or oral representations on behalf of Task Alarms from any elected representative, and the topics discussed at his meeting with a bidder for contracts under the senior alerts scheme on 10 December 2015. [44112/15]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: What we have from the Government are some pre-election crumbs. They are not even crumbs from the Government’s own cake but crumbs from the people’s cake that the Government has taken from them in the form of the property tax. Even then, it is giving tiny crumbs of it back to them. I can see the leaflets now from Fine Gael in particular but also from the Labour Party, which is...

Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: The proposal yesterday from the European Commission regarding European border guards, which will be discussed at the European Council, is most serious. It represents an attempt to build even higher the walls of fortress Europe and to further militarise those walls. It places metaphorical and real barbed wire on them, provides for tower guards and for drones flying across the Mediterranean....

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (17 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the actions taken by him to secure the release of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who is detained in Egypt and facing serious charges that could result in the death penalty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45311/15]

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (17 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: A tenth trial date, a third birthday and Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish citizen, is still languishing in jail in a dictatorship, potentially facing a death sentence, after his 20th birthday. I listened to the Minister’s response to Deputy Seán Crowe and accept that he wants to see Ibrahim Halawa released and that embassy staff are working hard in that respect. However, is it not time...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (17 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I accept the bona fides of the Government and the Minister that they want to see a positive outcome to this case. I also accept that Ibrahim Halawa is facing a trial in a judicial system in another country. It is also a fact that it is not possible for him to receive a fair trial, to reasonably prepare for his defence, in a situation where he faces a mass trial with almost 500 people and...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (17 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: One would hope that Saturday will see progress, but we also hoped for progress on earlier dates. It is therefore not unreasonable for people not to have too many illusions about the Egyptian courts system. The Egyptian authorities argue that before law 140 can be applied, the case must first be finished and a conviction or otherwise occur. That does not seem to be accurate, however. It...