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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (21 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: What are we recovering?

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I have no difficulty with people being accompanied by a garda; it might be necessary on occasion. My concern is that more and more responsibilities are being passed over to the local authorities while there is a staff embargo in place. I am concerned the resources are inadequate to meet those additional obligations. The idea is good but I am not sure it will be enforced.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I made some points earlier in the debate and made the same ones on Committee Stage, so I will not go over them again. I endorse Deputy Humphreys' point on the rebalancing and transfer of powers between reserve functions and the local government executive. Officials are not elected and will not be held to account, which is a major deficit in our democracy. Kildare is not short of landfill...

Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: The Bill introduces a framework for the resolution of distressed institutions. While I welcome some of the provisions, which are long overdue and which could help to ease the burden created by the financial crisis or collapse in 2008, what we really need is a change in culture and political orientation that will prevent credit institutions from ever reaching the stage of catastrophic...

Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Not agreed.

Written Answers — Patient Statistics: Patient Statistics (21 Jul 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 648: To ask the Minister for Health the number of incidents of harm and near-misses by hospitals and community-based health care facilities reported in 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22134/11]

Energy Prices (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the measures available to him to address the continuing escalating cost of energy; if he has or intends to have discussions with the energy suppliers; if so, the outcome of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23880/11]

Energy Prices (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I attended a briefing by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul last week in Buswells Hotel. The society has produced a major report, one of the findings of which points to the significant pressure on people at home all day, particularly the elderly, owing to the cost of energy. We heard about people who are choosing to go to bed at 7 p.m. so as not to have to sit up and shiver. Those who are...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Tuarastal Breithiúna), 2011 — An Dara Céim / Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judges' Remuneration) Bill 2011 — Second Stage (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I do not oppose this straightforward proposal. I am not against reducing judges' pay but I am deeply unhappy with the way today's and tomorrow's proposals to amend our Constitution have been brought forward. One the major flaws with our first Constitution was that the Houses of the Oireachtas could amend it at will and we ended up with a Constitution which was like a wedge of Swiss cheese....

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to honour the commitment given by the previous Government to grow the overseas aid budget to 0.7% of the national income by 2015; the rationale for his decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23264/11]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce any measures to alleviate the financial pressures on mature students who will suffer the combined effect of the removal of the non-adjacent grant and the extension of the non-adjacent area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22815/11]

Written Answers — Civil Registration: Civil Registration (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 286: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in addition to the civil registration indexes, she will complete the project of digitising the records themselves; if so, the timeframe involved; the work that has taken place to date; the locations of the work that is being done; the cost of same; the way she plans to offer it to the public; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Civil Registration: Civil Registration (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the civil registration indexes which have been digitised will be available through the CRO website; the reason they were made available to the Church of Latter Day Saints in advance of going live nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23209/11]

Written Answers — National Monuments: National Monuments (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in view of the unsatisfactory position regarding access to national monuments, he will expedite the publication of a Bill updating the existing Monuments Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22821/11]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 500: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if advice has been issued by him in the past regarding the location of telecommunications masts in the vicinity of schools or residential areas; if so, the nature of that advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23976/11]

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 519: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he sponsored a motion before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 12 July 2011, which was approved, for the introduction of a levy on the incineration of waste when on that same day amendments were made by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on Committee Stage of the...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 551: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to modify the interest rate for the rental portion of the shared ownership loan which appears to be placing an excessive burden on low income households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23206/11]

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Developments: Unfinished Housing Developments (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 552: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the schemes that have been applied for and accepted for the remediation of category 3 and 4 unfinished estates on a county basis; the amount that has been released; the local authorities that received same; the dialogue he has had with them about the projects to be included under their scheme in view of the...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 557: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of volunteer centres on a county basis; the number of staff employed in each centre; the number of volunteers offering and placed in 2010; the funding that was provided to each centre in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23247/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Expenditure: Local Authority Expenditure (14 Sep 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 587: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has given consideration to a combined e-procurement initiative as a means of cutting costs to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23903/11]