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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 265. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of local authority dwellings by building-energy-rating in each local authority area in the State in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5271/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the numbers of grant applications for home energy retrofit of local authority dwellings approved in each local authority area in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the total amount spent in each year towards these grants; the total contribution in each year from local authority resources; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 267. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the most recently available numbers of whole-time equivalent staffing in each local authority in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5274/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 268. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government , using the most recently available data, if he will provide, in tabular form, the total number of local authority dwellings in each local authority in the State; the proportion of such dwellings in each area which are single bed, two-bed, three-bed, four-bed or more than four-bed; the proportion of such dwellings in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (5 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the effect the present recruitment embargo has had over the past number of years upon the ability of local authorities to deliver their services effectively; if he will highlight the local authorities which have most suffered as a result of staffing shortages; the measures he has proposed to address these high-pressure...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I thank all those who contributed to the debate. In particular, I thank my colleagues in the Technical Group. We are often described as a disparate group, but this was one motion we all found easy to support. The response of the Government in tabling the amendment was disappointing. The most breathtaking statement in the amendment is the line to the effect that the debt is sustainable and...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the debate on this Bill and I welcome the extension of protection to people who to date did not have protection in regard to mortgage arrears. This is something I and others called for particularly at the time the IBRC loan books were sold when our attention was drawn to the consequences people felt they might face. Many of those who contacted us at the time were furious,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 16 December 2014, if he will indicate if, notwithstanding the commercial independence of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation at the time, his Department endeavoured to query the reason such a large loss to the State, amounting to over €100 million, was permitted to happen in the sale of the company concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (4 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) in County Kildare cannot be facilitated in an appropriate second level school closer than 50 km from that child's home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5088/15]

European Debt: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I move:“That Dáil Éireann notes:— that the financial crisis highlighted the deviation from the founding principles and values of the European Union (EU) such as solidarity and mutual respect amongst nations; — the unsustainability of the debt burden imposed on Ireland and other European countries; — that the debt burden is an obstacle to economic and...

European Debt: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: This motion refers to the call for a debt conference. It is often said that the most dangerous people are those who have nothing to lose. Too many people across Europe have been put in a position where they feel they have nothing to lose, not just because of the economic crash but how it has been responded to by powerful individuals and institutions who design outcomes in their own interest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 2) Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: In the context of our discussion on this meeting, we considered whether we would do pre-legislative scrutiny of the planning and development (No. 2) Bill. We are obviously working on the No. 1 Bill at present. Part of the reason we were exploring this was to see what would be possible, because what is published and what will end up being in the Bill are very different, given what has been...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Mitigation Plan (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, now that the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill has been published, his Department's response in terms of the preparation of a sectoral emissions reduction plan; if he plans to prepare a draft plan in anticipation of the national adaptation plan; if such a plan will be left until the latter end of the 2017 timescale...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to confirm funding for the upgraded M7 Naas-Oberstown interchange and Sallins bypass; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this stretch of motorway is the most dangerous in the State in terms of incidents recorded annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4347/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (3 Feb 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection whether front-line services provided by her Department to the individual citizen have suffered dramatically, given that many urban centres are without community welfare officer access and rely instead on a telephone number which is often not answered; whether she is aware that many persons attempting to make contact with CWOs are doing so in...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome this opportunity to speak on the Bill. One of the frustrations about it is that it should include other issues, on which people are generally supportive, but it does not. These gaps will be the problem. For many of the women, a small number of whom I know, there is a sense of frustration about one particular aspect, which is being believed. I made this point when we were...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: Very reluctantly.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electric Vehicle Grants (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on progress towards the 2020 target for electric vehicle use in the State; the number of EV charge points that have been installed by location and type of charge point in each year since 2008; the number of charge points that have been installed by Electric Ireland at private dwellings, by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Producer Organisations (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the various roles of fishing producer organisations; the oversight and control exercised over them; in what circumstances a fishing producer organisation will be excluded and or disqualified from its role under the common fisheries policy or other legislative provisions; the circumstances in which they will be shut down; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (29 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the European and international legislative provisions and relevant sections of same under which fishing producer organisations operating here operate; if he will provide and list the associated provisions and sections of same in legislation here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4250/15]