Results 22,601-22,620 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will locate the funds to re-open a special-needs playschool (details supplied) in County Kildare that was closed down in June 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7549/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 28 January 2015, when the findings and outcomes of the investigations, under the planning review of the performance of planning functions, will be released; if he has received a copy of the finished report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7410/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legal status of the recently published Planning Policy Statement 2015 (details supplied); his plans to issue a ministerial policy directive to planning authorities, under section 29 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7472/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 11 February 2015, if the Data Protection Commissioner has raised concerns with her Department regarding the primary online database; if so, if she will make these concerns known, her Department's response and the measures intended as a consequence; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (17 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 502. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the requirement that 25% of employed sub-contractors, under the regional water meter installation contracts, should come from the live register, has been complied with; the percentage to date; if the contracts remain valid if this figure has not been attained; its implications; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the Government's position on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations; how he plans to address concerns that the main goal of the partnership is to remove regulatory barriers which restrict the potential profits to be made by transnational corporations on both sides of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (12 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the submission that is proposed from Ireland to the European Union Commission on the new Common Agricultural Policy, including measures to simplify payments or processes; the timeframes for same; the consultation process to support same; the reason there appears to have been no formal consultation call; the mechanisms for making...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (12 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process that his Department is undertaking in respect of the recording and updating of hedgerow, ditch and buffer zones; the process where these areas are being considered as an ecological focus area in the new Common Agricultural Policy; the timeframes for same; the process for updating this data; the control and oversight and...

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: In 2005, I was elected to the Dáil in a by-election in Kildare, and a by-election was held in Meath on the same day. A key issue in the by-election was the lack of available and affordable child care. It seemed to come as a bolt from the blue and was regarded as a commuter belt issue. It is way beyond that. The response was that €1,000 was provided in the following budget per...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Two weeks.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I regret that I was not in the House when the Minister opened the debate. There was a Whips' meeting and I have not yet mastered bi-location. I would like to be energetically and enthusiastically supporting this legislation. Unfortunately, I cannot because it is woefully inadequate. Over the past ten years, we have seen eight different pieces of legislation on this topic. I introduced...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Public Appointment Service does not keep track of the status of applicants for temporary clerical officer positions; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, for the minimal effort to record such information, large efficiency savings can be made and offers of employment can be sent to those who are in a position...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil Data Collection (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that the collection of data concerning primary school children for the primary online database is legally permissible; the way schools have gathered and processed sensitive personal data, as defined under the Data Protection Acts 1988 - 2003; the way this has been done in a manner consistent with statutory obligations; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil Data Collection (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way it is legally permissible for schools to gather and process the personal data of primary school children for a purpose other than the purpose for which the data has been collected; if she will categorically list the purposes for which data is being collected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6276/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil Data Collection (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that capitation grants and staffing resources are linked to the provision by parents of personal information regarding their children to schools for the primary online database; that there is an inherent coercion in this, in that schools feel obliged to gather and process this information, for fear of losing funding; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the creation of the primary online database without the protection of the provisions of the Statistics Act 1996 is an appropriate method of gathering and processing the personal data of primary school children. [6278/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil Data Collection (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department has instructed schools to make a copy of the personal data collected and processed for the purposes of populating the primary online database; to store and process it on site; the way such actions could possibly meet the security requirements as mandated by data protection...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil Data Collection (11 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has been cognisant of concerns arising from the Data Protection Commissioner as far back as 2010 over the collection of personal information regarding students (details supplied); if she will provide a detailed copy of the legal opinion which her Department has utilised to justify the present primary online database scheme;...

Other Questions: Wildlife Conservation (10 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We signed up to an obligation but we did not fulfil it. This obligation predates the Government, and the Minister is working towards resolving this issue. Conservation is never easy, and we know a number of species have dwindling populations. Do the European institutions take account of the staff and resources required to fulfil these obligations, particularly at a time when there are huge...

Other Questions: Wildlife Conservation (10 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will confirm that all outstanding matters brought by the European Commission against Ireland concerning the State’s transposition and implementation of the birds directive, details supplied, relating to the protection of endangered birds have been resolved; the measures that have been put in place to ensure...