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Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (14 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive has refused to accept adoption files from a centre (details supplied) in County Cork; if she will undertake to make these files available in order that the adoptees are given the opportunity to trace their birth parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20612/11]

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I propose to share time with Deputy Mick Wallace. This Bill is welcome. Anyone who has seen a member of the family suffer and die from lung cancer will know that seeing someone trying to survive on an eggcup of air in the lungs is enough to put one off smoking for life. Professor Clancy in St. James's Hospital articulates in graphic detail the job he has in dealing with people with lung...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: We sat in a fog and it was outrageous.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Now, it would be completely frowned upon.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: There were also other smokers. Going to other countries, one arrives at the airport and sees people smoking, which is shocking when one is used to the smoking ban here. I do not think it has modified the behaviour of one of my constituency colleagues but at least this takes place outside. Some 79% of smokers want to quit, which suggests the shock campaigns will be effective. I would like...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Deputy Durkan must be joking.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Articles by Shane Coleman in The Sunday Tribune a few years ago drew attention to how overstated our register of electors was. Those articles showed the potential for manipulating an election given that there were more people on the register than there were electors. After that field work was done an initiative was taken to correct it. The door-to-door arrangement might have worked fine...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: The case Deputy Finian McGrath and I took sought to have preliminary figures used to start the process. I was amused that the Bill was published the day before the census figures came out, jumping the gun. The size of the population growth between now and the next census does not matter. The last census will be used to decide the number to ensure it is constitutional. I am concerned that...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance when the ministerial order applying carbon tax to solid fuel will be commenced, in view of the fact that the Marketing, Sale and Distribution of Fuels (Amendment) Regulations 2011 limits all bituminous coal for residential use placed on the market since 7 June 2011 to a sulfur content of no more than 0.7%, and in the context of the development of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason additional information provided in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare was not considered when refusing a jobseeker's allowance claim; the further reason information was not automatically sent to the appeals officer to assist them in deciding the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of whole-time equivalents, on a county basis, in local authorities in 2010; how this compares to the previous year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20823/11]

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 346: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the level of funding that has been returned to his Department by local authorities with regard to the housing adaptation grant scheme in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; the local authorities that have returned such funding in those years; the reasons for such funding returns; the local authorities that have...

Written Answers — Local Authority Funding: Local Authority Funding (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 347: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has notified local authorities the amount that they will be allocated through the Local Government Fund for 2012; if not, when he plans to make that information available to local authorities; the amounts to be awarded out to all local authorities under the Local Government Fund; the way the Census...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (19 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 484: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the number of nurses currently employed in Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, is adequate to ensure patient safety; if the hospital has sought a relaxation of the public service embargo in order to employ more nurses; if so, the result of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20826/11]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise an issue of urgent national importance, namely, the need for a swift response from Ireland and, more importantly, Europe to the famine that has been declared in sub-Saharan Africa. In the light of the extent of the crisis that is unfolding, I ask the Government to outline the intended Irish response, to raise this matter at...

Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I was angry on reading the Cloyne report, mainly because it shows that the culture has not changed for many senior figures in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. It takes great courage to come forward to give testimony and I applaud those who did so. For years they were not believed, fobbed off and treated as though they were in a confessional, which was wrong. The law of the State, it...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Prior to the High Court decision, I attended a large meeting in my constituency of people, mostly women, who were employed under the joint labour committee, JLC rules. All were low paid and all were concerned about maintaining their living standards. Some spoke of there being little incentive to work were they to take further pay cuts or were their incomes to be reduced further or eroded...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason delays are continuing to be experienced in her Department in deciding claims for carer's allowance; the number of cases that are yet to be decided; the number of cases being reviewed; the number of cases being appealed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21437/11]

Written Answers — Customer Service Standards: Customer Service Standards (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has reviewed or plans to review customer service standards; if she has concerns about the capacity of her Department to adequately deal with the extent of communication being generated; if she has sought additional resources to meet this need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21438/11]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (20 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils attending primary school by county in 2010; the number of special needs assistants positions by county; the number of remedial teachers by county; the number of pupils attending special schools by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21860/11]