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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exchequer Savings (10 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the reported budgetary savings made in her Department throughout her time as Minister that have had a real and adverse effect on the quality and efficiency of the service provided to citizens who access their services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47093/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (10 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that long term sick claimants of illness benefit supports are not permitted to avail of the Christmas bonus announced recently for unemployed recipients; her plans to widen the Christmas bonus qualifying criteria for persons claiming illness benefit for up to eight years and more; if she will widen the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (10 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who have been continuously unemployed for more than the 391 cumulative-paid total days are required to avail of the Christmas bonus, due to the fact that they are no longer part of another person's claim; if this qualifying period of 391 days will be assessable against joint claims; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (10 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is his Department's intention to increase the tourism potential of the Liffey Valley amenity area; the deliberations he or his predecessor has had with interested parties regarding this; if his Department has had any contact with the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs with respect to the tourist potential of...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I am happy to support it. I am glad the Government is also supportive of it. Obviously, this motion follows the work in the Seanad. I acknowledge Senator Power's work in particular. It has been important. If this year has demonstrated anything, it is that we can dispel the notion that supporting this type of motion will shake the fragile...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in the pursuit of a vital all-island approach to genealogical heritage, a conflict arises in the different legal regimes surrounding access to digitised records online versus digitised indexes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46866/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This relates to having an all-Ireland approaching to genealogical heritage services. Obviously, there are two legal jurisdictions involved. I wish to draw attention to the General Register Office's birth, marriage and death records. We are out of synch with the North's progress. I presume the Minister will be able to address this matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is all right.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The website of the General Register Office of Northern Ireland, GRONI, provides indexes which lead the user to the actual records. The records that were made available on the website to which the Minister referred had to be taken down because the Data Protection Commissioner had a difficulty with the information that was thereby made available. Now, it seems, there is no such problem....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Genealogical Services (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Will users be able to access the actual records or just the indexes?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Leader funding is also important to less rural counties. It impact is primarily outside the capital city and it is an extremely important fund. There have been criticisms of the fact that in some areas there is a queue of projects, while others do not have the same throughput. It is important that a close eye is kept on the funding and that it is distributed to schemes that are ready to...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: On the day the Taoiseach was elected and this Government was formed, he talked about his gratitude and humility. He told us we stood on the threshold of fundamental change. He told us:The new Government will tell the people the truth regardless of how unwelcome or difficult that might be. We will tell it constantly and unreservedly. It is the only way because the people always have a...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I move amendment No. 4:In page 4, line 9, after "Resolution" to insert "of not fewer than two thirds of the Members".The way in which the original Bill was drafted left it open to the Minister to cause the sale of Irish Water. There was cause for further concern in the data protection statements that were included on the Irish Water website. The first of these, for example, referred to the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Cultural Institutions (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has conducted a needs assessment regarding future funding of the national cultural institutions, in particular the National Archives, National Museum and National Library; if she is cognisant of the urgent need to invest in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46865/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the most recent LCP Ireland pensions accounting briefing (details supplied) which estimated the current deficit in the 29 largest defined benefit pension schemes to have more than doubled in one year to €8.5 billion; if her Department had performed a risk analysis of the State's potential exposure if the scenario continues to...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. Next week it will be 12 months since the original legislation was rammed through the House. Since then we have had a year of confusion and anger, and one scandal after another, with regard to Irish Water. That is fundamentally about one issue, namely, old politics and a Government using a huge majority to dismiss dissenting voices. There is an arrogance about a Government taking...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (4 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the review of the business case for DART underground by the National Transport Authority is complete; if so, if he will share the findings of the report; the timeframe now envisaged for the project; if it is still the intention to move forward under the existing railway order; if compulsory purchases necessary to the project are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (4 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the business case for the siting of the proposed national children's hospital at St. James's Hospital; the advantages that site has which were the overriding factors in choosing to site the hospital there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46592/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (3 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that information which schools are requested to collect on parents, medical card status, social welfare status and then forward to the NCSE in accordance with the latest allocation model for resources for children with special needs is done in full compliance with data protection legislation; if she will indicate the use...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I have been raising this issue for the past 18 months or two years, much of the time with the Minister for Social Protection and specifically in regard to rent assistance and rent caps. Not a day goes by without people coming into my office to talk about their embarrassment at finding themselves in this situation. Most of these people are functioning families. They talk about being in...