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

Catherine Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the State’s regulation of fishing producer organisations, if he will provide specific administrative arrangements or legislative specifications which differ from those in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4251/15]

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

Catherine Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if membership of a fishing producer organisation is at individual boat level; if not, the level at which it is assigned; if he will identify any legislative provision here specifying this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4252/15]

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

Catherine Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria which must be met to qualify as a member of a fishing producer organisation; the legislative provisions specifying this; the categories of membership for fishing producer organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4253/15]

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

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the information provided to the European Commission in relation to fish producer organisations concerning their funding, quota allocation, membership and landings; if he will provide a copy of the most recent set of such reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4254/15]

Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I support the motion. I welcome the opportunity to contribute on it although it falls way short given the wide range of measures that are required. One reason there is such a desire to own a home is because there is little choice. The choice is between going on the housing waiting list and trying to buy a house. One has security of tenure with a purchase unless one is in negative equity....

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The last time I checked, 19,000 houses in County Kildare had not been taken in charge. Some of the cases in housing estates went back 20 years. There is an issue, on which I hope we can all be at one. There are issues relating to bonds and bonds expiring. Bonds have a seven year duration and are not in perpetuity. When a local authority can take an estate in charge, it will take in...

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to initiate any legislative reforms to address the continued difficulties which exist to the taking in charge of estates where outstanding issues have not been addressed; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that with construction activity increasing the need for these measures has never been greater; if...

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: We are constantly told that the biggest investment people individually will make will be the purchase of a home, yet there is very little consumer protection for purchasers. Construction is beginning to ramp up again, yet many of the defects and deficiencies in the planning system in regard to taking estates in change, bonds and matters such as that, have not been addressed and are not...

Other Questions: Unfinished Housing Developments (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the fact that the Minister of State is open to changing section 180. I had sought that in a provision in legislation that was not opposed and I had hoped to see it included in the planning and development (No. 2) Bill. For a person who lives in a housing estate who wants to petition to have the estate taken in charge, the extension of duration means that it cannot happen before 17...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The point is that there will be no money to invest. The Minister is talking about the need to invest, but there will be no money. He has not made a convincing argument about where this money is going to come from. He talks about people in group water schemes investing - and yes, they did - but equally, people in public schemes and commercial enterprise made an investment in water and waste...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the funding model of Irish Water; the net income from the model annually broken down by category; the estimation of households in the State that Irish Water is relying on to determine the full cost of the €100 allowance and the cost in each year up to 2019; the plans of Irish Water to engage any...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Department has made the assumption that 35,000 households - customers of Irish Water - will not apply for the water conservation grant. This goes to the heart of the viability of Irish Water as it raises questions over the costs of the quango itself and the billing system. The grant itself, in turn, will use up moneys intended for investment. These are the issues I have raised in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Funding (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister claimed it will lead to lower costs in the future. For whom? Essentially, the whole idea of establishing Irish Water was to ensure corresponding funding could be raised off balance sheet. There will be difficulties if it does not pass the EUROSTAT market corporation test. Essentially, much of what has been estimated as the income for Irish Water with the new regime is going to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of the planning review of the performance of planning functions reopened by his Department in July 2013; when it is likely to report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3611/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the annual planning statistics produced by his Department, the reason the number of planning decisions taken nationally where the decision differs from the recommendation of the planner officer jumped from an average of just 400 per year between 2003 and 2007 to an average of 5,600 per year between 2010 and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the objectives agreed at the homelessness conference which took place in his Department in December 2014; the progress on each of the agreed points to emerge from that conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3612/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Parliamentary Party Allowances Expenditure (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular format, the total amounts paid to each qualifying political party in respect of annual Exchequer payments under the Electoral Acts in each of the years 2012, 2013 and 2014; the fixed payment amount each year; the variable amount in each case and the way this was calculated; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (28 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: 118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has allocated the planned expansion of social housing across each local authority in the State; the criteria being used to determine the greatest need and to ensure a fair demographic spread of the extra investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3676/15]

European Council: Statements (27 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputies Healy, Clare Daly and Wallace. As was said by others, much has happened since December, not least the weekend election in Greece which is part of a trend throughout Europe. Calls for a European debt conference ought to be heeded by this Government. Looking back, it is difficult to believe that the last time such an international conference of creditors...

Other Questions: School Enrolments (27 Jan 2015)

Catherine Murphy: There have been public meetings of hundreds of people who want a choice for their children. I attended one such meeting in Kilcock last week. The point is being made about having a place for every child, but parents do not want just any place. They want a choice in education. For example, there are 160 applications for 52 places. It would have been 83 or 84 places with the three streams,...