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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (7 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the negative impact of the minimum income thresholds for medical card holders who are also in receipt of social welfare payments; if it is open to him to amend this minimum income threshold to allow the Health Service Executive to award medical cards in such cases of obvious need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24635/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (7 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 443. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that at present there is no child psychology service available in County Kildare, the fourth most populous county in the State; his views that this presents a significant child welfare issue; the dialogue he has had with the Health Service Executive in respect of this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27274/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: European Court of Justice Rulings (7 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs to the Exchequer arising from the State's obligation to enforce the decision of the European Court of Justice of the European Union on 26 April 2005 in case C 494/01, Commission v. Ireland, in the matter of the waste directive, and the associated programme of measures; his plans to fully transpose the landfill...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (7 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulatory regime governing the use and operation of rickshaws; if they are subject to the same rules as regular cyclists; his views that greater regulation is required, given the commercial nature of their operation and the fact that they tend to proliferate at night time in busy city centre areas; and if he will make a statement...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This is connected to it. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, made sure it was connected to it.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Absolutely, I know that. The campaign of civil disobedience is about more than water. It is about concerns about not having enough money to live on and about being pushed too far. We have seen what the credit unions have to say about the level of disposable monthly income. This must be factored in when considering the debt issue. The Government may not want to be seen to backtrack...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Law Reform Commission presented its proposals on this issue in 2010, long before Irish Water was even conceived and before the last general election. What was proposed was not the same as that being presented which is being presented in tandem with other legislation this week to create a connection between the two. I am in favour of jailing people who are a threat to society. There must...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister of State noted there is evidence that the pay by weight system removes a significant amount of waste away from landfill. The point I was making is that if a person has a municipal bin and is paying for it and is getting a bin for the other, non-compost, waste, the person will separate it out. If a person has a compost bin, he or she will separate out that waste. The household...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: One of the concerns about the process is that the major focus of attention was on the amendments that were related to water. This area required a great deal of scrutiny and I cannot overstress how frustrating the inadequacy of the process is. People have changed their habits. I know people who have reluctantly ended up with an ordinary bin and the benefit was that they received a recycling...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to come back in on a few issues relating to enforcement. The Minister spoke about learning lessons and we have to do that. In the Naas experience it was the community, through Clean Air Naas, that demanded intervention and it came at a very late stage. Regarding the organisations that would have had responsibility, it is one thing to have good legislation, but, obviously, it needs...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: There are really three Bills in one. There is probably no difficulty with some of the provisions, but it would have been very helpful to have had a decent Second Stage debate to discuss some of the issues being addressed by way of amendments. The waste industry has left a trail of destruction in its wake in some parts of the country and some of the problems have been very expensive to...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I wanted to ask a number of things about this amendment. This is clearly an industry in which there has been a history of problems. I see Deputy Lawlor is leaving the Chamber, and if one takes Naas, for example, a mountain of waste was allowed to develop and it burned for weeks before the fire brigade was called in. Remediation costs were somewhere in the region of €40 million. Are...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I apologise. I was speaking to amendment No. 11.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: There is a range of elements to the amendments and some of the contributions have focused on rental properties. Amendment No. 21 requires all households to register as customers of Irish Water. This is the only utility of which I am aware for which registration is a mandatory obligation. For electricity, telephone services and other utilities there is a choice. I understand why there is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (2 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the criteria his Department utilises to anticipate and prepare for future human resource trends in the public service, including how the need to respond to imbalances in staffing resources per capita across different geographical regions is measured and how this data is incorporated into policy; what he considers to be, based on...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I want to tell the Minister of State what a real person wrote to me and many other Deputies. This person says she is a lone parent. The cuts that come into force this week will seriously affect her financially. She has worked part-time since her son was born nine years ago. These cuts will mean that from this week she will be down €62. She has a mortgage of over €600 on a...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I will focus on the €540 million. I have a copy of the Local Government Reform Act 2014. Part 13, which is entitled, "Local Government Fund and Irish Water", amends section 6 of Local Government Act 1998 by substituting a number of sections, and by inserting the following subsection:(2CA) The Minister may make payments out of the Fund to Irish Water in respect of water services...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Government said that last year and the year before.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Normally after a Bill is published, on Second Stage we get an explanatory memorandum. It would have been very interesting to see the explanatory memorandum for these amendments. It is not just the water-related amendments, but also the other amendments relating to waste, some of which are quite good. Perhaps others could have been added and there may have been a number of missed...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Catherine Murphy: During the years I had concerns about the way in which the money was distributed, but at least it offered certainty. Subsequently, however, the household charge was introduced, with promises that it would pay for grass cutting or libraries. It was mis-sold on the basis that it would cover a range of additional services to which people were not accustomed. The household charge was succeeded...