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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Given that Moneypoint generates a large amount of energy and has a lifespan to 2025, the ESB must have done some thinking about the future of the plant. While I accept that biomass has to be imported, so does coal, which will not be sustainable. No matter how one views this there will be cost implications. There could be cost implications if we do not meet our targets that we are perhaps...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: What is the thinking, given the prospect of fines if we do not meet our targets? Some of the old generating stations attract subsidies. Presumably those subsidies would not apply if they use fuel that would lead to our paying a fine because that would be a double whammy. Has that been considered?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This question relates to the energy mix, particularly the use of biomass at Moneypoint, and whether a cost-benefit analysis has been carried out, given that the Moneypoint plant has a lifespan up to 2025.

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: On the first day of this Dáil, the point was made that the Government would not have a monopoly on wisdom-----

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: -----but that is the way it has proceeded, pretty much right through this Dáil, when it comes to Opposition legislation. It is very demoralising.

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: That is one of the reforms that needs to happen in the next Dáil, namely, that the monopoly on wisdom is not only to be found on one side of the Chamber but that is the way that Government proceeded-----

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: -----throughout this Dáil.

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I support the Bill. I do not suppose anybody in this House will say they welcome the fact that we are talking about bankruptcy, several years after the crash, but this is an important initiative. However, much more is needed. It is extraordinary that moral hazard did not extend to some of the very large debtors in this country that are visibly back in action without having to go through...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Public Service Obligation Levy Application (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the State subsidies available to energy providers, including the amounts spent, by category, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; if future policy towards the subsidisation of fossil fuel-derived energy sources will change, given the specific emissions reduction targets proposed for the State; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Improvement Scheme Administration (15 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 590. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures in place under the Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006, a Statutory Instrument or a Departmental circular that oblige the rating authorities, which oversee the corporate entities established to operate the business improvement districts schemes, to ensure that these...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: It is paid in respect of every Member.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to understand the implications of the change. The fund of €369 million is a lot of money but this is the national Parliament and it does cover every aspect of its work. People tend to think of the expenditure being exclusively for the salary of politicians but it covers everything included in the running of the Houses from heating to the upkeep of the building. Section...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I have spoken on the equivalents of this Bill on a number of previous occasions and will probably make the same points again now. I support the point made by Deputy McLellan regarding representation on the commission. It is totally inadequate that the only Opposition Deputy included on the commission is a Fianna Fáil Deputy. The commission is an important body and it requires a...

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

Catherine Murphy: There are four of us sharing the slot if that is all right.

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

Catherine Murphy: When the Minister of State made his opening statement he referred to property tax being a secure fund. Motor tax was a secure fund and local authorities were previously provided with resources from it through the local government fund. The guarantee from 1997 was that the fund would be ring-fenced. Property tax has essentially become a replacement for the local government fund. When...

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

Catherine Murphy: -----about coming back in 2019.

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

Catherine Murphy: It is obvious that the county that pays the most is Dublin. There are net contributors to the fund and net recipients. There are positive changes on pyrite but only a very small number of people have availed of relief. There is a big omission in terms of people whose houses have tested positively for pyrite but do not yet have damage. Who would buy such a house? What value does such a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the State's capacity to engage in mitigating measures against harmful greenhouse gas emitters is severely restricted owing to the weak legislative climate regime; that it is simply unrealistic to expect the State to be able to achieve even the specified targets Ireland is committing to, given the planned-for growth in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (10 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the decision to close off Gaelcholáiste access to students in north eastern Kildare outside the catchment area of the closest such school in Lucan in County Dublin; her views regarding the total immersion form of education; if the expectation for enrolments being made has now been taken away for an unacceptable period; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (10 Dec 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why she is insisting that parents and students of north eastern Kildare again demonstrate sufficient viability for an immersion model of education, given that this demand is already long proven and is the basis upon which several Gaelscoileanna at primary level were established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44653/15]