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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We have been told that this is a technical Bill. I am often watching for Bills to which I can table amendments. When I tabled amendments to a transport Bill not that long ago, I was told that certain things could not be raised because it was a particular type of Bill. I would like to ask about the amendments that are coming to us. I have to tell the Minister of State that I do not like...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Are we looking at technical amendments to existing waste legislation? The legislation in question is pretty significant in its own right. Indeed, anything to do with water services legislation tends to be controversial.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Minister of State telling us that these changes are essentially technical and that the Bill is not going to be amended significantly?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Legal Cases (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 288. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money spent to date by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in litigating a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20258/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 289. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the existence of a verbal agreement between a debtor (details supplied) and the chief executive officer of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, which stipulated terms and conditions of loan repayments due to the corporation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20259/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 290. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of an agreement put in place between a debtor and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (details supplied), regarding the flexible repayment of that debtor's loans, which was never escalated to the credit committee of the corporation, as legally required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20260/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that a debtor to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (details supplied) had written to the present special liquidator of the corporation, seeking changes in any of the terms and conditions of that debtor's loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20261/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 292. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that the special liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation have offered or given discounts to debtors, as an incentive to refinance their loans elsewhere, before the scheduled sale of said loans as part of the liquidation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20262/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance if the review into transactions at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, to be undertaken by KPMG, will include a review of both the Blue Ocean Associates sale to a person (details supplied), which resulted in a write-down of €64 million, and the sale of Topaz to a consortium led by the same person, which also involved a significant write-down...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (26 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 727. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts that have been made to employ additional psychologists at Naas child and adolescent mental health services in County Kildare; if he is aware that presently social workers are carrying out the duties that psychologists would ordinarily carry out, as a result of shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20641/15]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I do not think I can remember a night in the past four years since this Government took office when we have been debating Private Members' business and there has been less interest. The Government has struggled to fill its speaking slots. All day today has been a fig-leaf of a session. It is something of an insult to the Opposition and the people who put this motion together. What we...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I just-----

Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Where?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (19 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); the length the Government are prepared to go to to ensure that this person is released; the progress the Irish diplomatic service has made to date; the consular assistance that has been provided to this person, and his family; and if he will make a statement on the...

Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The programme for Government included a commitment to introduce new freedom of information legislation, and it was introduced. My understanding is that it also allows for a review of the legislation. I have submitted freedom of information requests to the Department of Finance but must say I am really unhappy with the way the legislation is playing out. I was due to receive responses at...

Independent Planning Regulator: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The public is sick to the back teeth with the endless sequence of tribunals and inquiries. The sums involved are huge, with the Mahon tribunal costing in the region of $300 million. We do not seem to learn lessons from them, however. The usual finding is of systems failure but it takes an age to put new systems and legislation in place. We tend to be reactive, and proactive legislation is...

Challenges Facing the European Union: Statements (7 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I want to focus on debt, climate and social Europe. We need to get to grips with the European debt mountain and to reset our ambition away from the idea that has dominated Europe in the past seven years, that is, the sense that the EU has become an agency of fiscal control more than anything else. What of the Lisbon treaty, the social chapter, social solidarity and a European Union that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 26 March 2015, in relation to his Department's inquiries into the sale of Siteserv by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the reason he stated this matter was further discussed at a meeting between the former Secretary General of the Department of Finance and the then chief executive officer of the corporation took...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (7 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the information which has emerged in the public domain recently which demonstrates a severely strained relationship between his Department and the senior management at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in advance of its special liquidation, if he will state that such difficulties were not a contributory factor in the early winding up of the...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We have to be able to create these links.