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County Enterprise Boards (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply. My attention had been drawn to an inadequacy in this respect in Kildare and I note that there is a means whereby funds can be moved from one place to the another. It appears obvious that the success rate of start-ups is very much predicated on the amount of effort spent on business planning and feasibility studies before the...

Written Answers — County Enterprise Boards: County Enterprise Boards (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has considered or will consider altering the organisational structure and administration of the county enterprise boards from a county to a regional basis; his views on whether the narrow definition of county creates a false barrier to industry and individuals that straddle county boundaries and thus encounter...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 12 May, 2011, the consultation process for transposing the 2003 EU regulatory framework of the telecommunications market will be extended beyond the telecommunications industry to include relevant consumer groups and the general public; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the consultation process for transposing the 2003 EU regulatory framework of the telecommunications market involves an analysis of the health impacts of telecommunications equipment and devices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14974/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there has been any recent review of the Environmental Protection Agency; if so, if it has been published; if not, his plans to conduct such a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14831/11]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I would like to reiterate some of the points already made. I take the Minister's point about people living longer, being healthier and wanting to work beyond the current pension age. We all agree that someone who wants to work, is able to work and has a contribution to make should be free to do so. However, there are worlds of difference between types of employment. I saw my late father...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Birth and death rates are the two primary figures used to arrive at population levels between census years. We have been experiencing a baby boom which, judging by reports from maternity hospitals, appears to be continuing. One issue that must also be factored in is emigration. It is a younger cohort of people who emigrate. We have had a history of emigration so there are things we can...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: On Deputy Ó Snodaigh's point, FLAC has a great deal of experience dealing with people where something has been drafted in such a way that it has produced problems. We want to avoid that kind of situation because we will end up with appeals and it becomes expensive to administer, apart from the fact it would single out particular groups. I am sure the Minister has had the benefit of the FLAC...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to the pilot project in Dún Laoghaire, is every claimant profiled?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Does that add dramatically to the administration of the claim? If the pilot is passed, is it intended to extend it to other areas? Is it computer based?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I would take a fairly similar view to Deputy Wallace. Although in principle internships are a reasonably good idea which give on the job training, a strict regime and control is required to ensure the level of abuse is limited. There will always be abuse of that kind of system. In Germany the welfare system was used when the economy was flat to keep people at work so such people did not...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the point at which it is intended to establish the national employment and entitlement service; if community employment schemes will continue to form part of the mix of options; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15318/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are estimated numbers for those who will transfer from rent supplement to the rental accommodation scheme in the lifetime of this Government; if she has talked to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the challenges that local authorities will encounter in sourcing sufficient RAS houses to...

Written Answers — EU-IMF Programme: EU-IMF Programme (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland is contributing to the Greek bailout; if so, the amount of same; the rate of interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15575/11]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for accommodating post-primary students in Maynooth, County Kildare; if there is scope to expand the current school; if a new site has been purchased; and if so the details of same including the size of site, the location and the cost and the facilities that are intended for the new site; if he is satisfied with the...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been taken to grant a school (details supplied) an additional special needs assistant to offer full-time assistance to a person; if not, when the decision will be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15551/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she plans to review the operation of the rent supplement scheme with a view to introducing a code of conduct for rent supplement eligibility similar to that which operates for local authority tenants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15618/11]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 349: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he intends to publish a national landscape strategy; if so, when a draft strategy will be published for consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15513/11]

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 382: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to undertake a risk assessment of the impacts of peak oil; how they might affect Ireland; if he intends to create an associated short-term and long-term crisis management plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15529/11]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 393: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the responsibility that falls to local authorities in the case of apartment developments which will be managed by a management company to ensure they are fully completed in accordance with the planning permission; in the case of mixed developments, the obligation the local authorities have to take such...