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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: May I come back in on a couple of things?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I have a number of points, including the one I made earlier about capturing the number of people at risk of homelessness. Local authorities have different approaches. The problem with community welfare officers is that, with the best will in the world, some people, including families, are being captured far too late. When people contact me I encourage them to talk to the local authority...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but there is a difference in the way some local authorities handle it. We could prevent people from getting to that stage. If we can get over this year, we may well see more housing stock starting to come in. It is critical this year that, as far as possible, we deal with families in particular. It is much more difficult to find accommodation where children are involved because of...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Is the 20% distribution of the local property tax to the local authorities based on the needs and resources model or is it related to a lower property tax? Very often, what happens is that local authorities are deemed to be quite well off because, for example, they have a staffing complement they have to pay and they have a number of swimming pools, libraries and so on. However, very often,...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I have been critical for donkey's years about a historical model being used to calculate these issues. For example, there were wide variations with regard to staffing ratios of local authorities, and that is factored into their baseline. A local authority in Meath has half the staff of Kerry but it has more people living in the county. Kerry is a net contributor, as it happens, so I am not...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: There was a specific question about changing mid-stream. We got less but we had to contribute less. What is the approach in that regard?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I asked about development contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that her Department, by instructing schools to collect and hold personal data relating to primary school students and their family backgrounds, under the primary online database scheme, is not exposing those schools to potential legal difficulties; if, in view of Government legislative proposals relating to data sharing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on removing the cap for enrolment at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare for the next three years until construction of new school buildings is complete; the number of parents of pupils of the school concerned that have initiated appeals under section 29 of the Education Act 1998 concerning enrolments; if she will arrange a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Climate Change Policy (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency has conceded that Ireland will fail to achieve its binding EU 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target by as much as 15%, the financial contingency planning he is putting in place to cover this eventuality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9222/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the perilous funding situation of an organisation (details supplied) which conducts vital suicide prevention work in the community; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that funding to tackle suicide has never been of more critical need, considering that the number of suicides reached its highest ever number...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will itemise the public car parks at each acute Health Service Executive hospital and voluntary hospital in the State; the private companies which operate them, where applicable; the income derived through car park fees and clamping activities at each carpark; if his attention has been drawn to any case where the proceeds derived accrue to hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Down syndrome has been added to the list of disabilities for which individual resource teaching hours is automatically provided; if she will provide an update on the roll-out of this scheme, which was committed to one year ago; the amount her Department has spent in legal challenges brought by parents seeking such resource hours prior to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 568. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of days that elapsed between the coming into operation of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013, generally, and the commencement of the statutory authority of Irish Water to issue and collect composite connection charges under section 8 of the same Act; if section 8 still is in effect at this date; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the levying of a composite connection charge by Irish Water is consistent with Ireland’s obligations under the Aarhus directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9117/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (3 Mar 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that the rationale for the absence of greenhouse gas reduction targets in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 is that Ireland already is subject to binding European Union targets, and that the Minister is on record as stating these same targets are unrealistic and unachievable...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (26 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who made 723 ORD class social insurance contributions, and 1,078 class A1 social insurance contributions, between 1964 and 2002, may not avail of a treatment benefit payment, owing to a change in that person's class of contributions, for three years after 2002; the reason the contributions made over the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: General Register Office (26 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total income derived by the general records office through fees paid by persons searching records at the office's site, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8686/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (26 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will share the results of the scoping exercise undertaken in her Department to determine the resources that will be required to administer the annual allowance, as set out in the most recent Irish Water legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8720/15]