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Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this Bill. We all speak to the gardaí in our areas. Something that they tell us is that burglary is a difficult crime to detect and becoming even more so. That may be because of television programmes that alert people to the possible detection methods. While I do not oppose strengthening the sentences, I am not sure that it will...

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: On the interim report into IBRC, Mr. Justice Cregan identifies confidentiality, privilege and the Stock Exchange as areas where there is a legal impediment to proceeding and estimates that the 18 months it would take to do even a scaled down review would only kick in after these legal difficulties have been addressed. Does the Government plan to introduce legislation or is the Attorney...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry Funding (25 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to parliamentary question No. 116 of 12 November 2015, whether he recognises that the thoroughbred foal levy is regressive in nature; consequent on this recognition, and taking into account his assertion in the former parliamentary question that it would be impractical to calculate the levy on the value of the foal or on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister anticipates 64% of the Department’s overall allocation for 2015 to have been spent to date. What will not be spent and under what headings before the end of the year? The area of housing accounts for 51% of the overall allocation for the Department. It is pretty difficult to scrutinise this when one is only counting one part of the equation and when the other side is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Minister expect all of the money to be spent by the end of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I refer to the underspend in the leasing of houses. Is the Minister saying he cannot find houses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: How can one evaluate it if there is no link with conservation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Such data is not calculated on a monthly or quarterly basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: May we have the documentation on choice-based lettings and whatever documentation it might be useful to the committee to have on refusals? We all know that there are many valid reasons for refusals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development (Urgent Social Housing Supply) Policy Directive 2015: Motion (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: It is a pity the other part of the meeting went on so long as this merits some consideration in its own right. I doubt there is anything in this the local authorities are not already familiar with. We are all aware of Part 8 and the other Part. The Minister of State might tell us what additional powers are in this of which the local authorities might not already be aware. If they had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development (Urgent Social Housing Supply) Policy Directive 2015: Motion (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to come back on some of those points briefly. I have been told all year, having asked about the matter on numerous occasions, that the tenancy protection unit would be expanded. The Minister of State did not outline the additional powers in this that are not already available to the local authorities. There is an element of the blame game going on in the context of local...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 96. To ask the Taoiseach all instances from 1 January 2000 to 2015 to date where legislation introduced by him or on his behalf, which is enacted and still in force, contains a provision amending the Data Protection Acts to allow for the transfer of personal or other data collected, retained and processed by the State for a particular purpose towards another specific purpose, in tabular form;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently announced establishment of a new Gaelcholáiste in Maynooth in County Kildare will require a new build; how the new build will interact with the proposed Maynooth Community College build; how the demand for the Gaelchólaiste will be measured; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41514/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the recent announcement of the establishment of a new Gaelcholáiste in Maynooth in County Kildare to set out the arrangements that will be put in place to accommodate those students outside the Maynooth catchment area who, from September 2016, will no longer have the option of attending the Gaelchólaiste in Lucan in County...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I do not suppose there is a community that is not affected by suicide. In my area there were several clusters of young people who lost their lives through suicide. One parent came to me, and probably to every other public representative in the area, because she was looking for it not to happen to anyone else, if that was possible. She was still very raw. She had gone through the strategy...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to make a few comments. First, the changes to section 37 are welcome. While the wording is not ideal, I understand there is a limit because of the directive and consequently, it was not as open to change as perhaps would have been desired. Nevertheless, this legislation is moving Members along from a previous position and in many ways, the public has been ahead of the Oireachtas on...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware, in so far as it relates to his public service and Civil Service oversight remit, of instances where compromise agreements have been offered to public servants who wish to avail of voluntary redundancy, in place of the traditional terms; if he is aware that previous determinations by the Labour Court have indicated that...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: My question relates to the offering of compromise agreements to public sector staff. An individual has approached me who claims the procedures set down in the Labour Court were not followed in that person's case. It was essentially a case of a gun to the head. I am concerned with establishing the views of the various Departments involved on this matter.

Other Questions: Employment Rights (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I certainly will provide the Minister with the details of the case to which I referred. Essentially, there was no question of the person being offered any support or even guidance on the rights that should apply. That is the reason I tabled this question. We must prevent creeping erosion of employees' rights. In this case, the employee was told that if the offer was not signed by a...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The agency is question is one associated with the Health Service Executive.