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Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Taoiseach keeps telling us that the country has the fundamentals right. Is there anything more fundamental than having a roof over one's head? As has been said already, just yards from here a man, Mr. Jonathan Corrie, died on our streets. It was a needless and lonely death and it is just plain wrong. This is combined with a situation whereby hundreds of children and their families...

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Taoiseach cannot call an inquiry into this because the buck stops in one place, that is, with him. For every day there is inaction, the situation will worsen. The €55 million for homelessness to which the Taoiseach referred does not involve spending €55 million on what he spent it on two years ago. It has been spent throughout the country to try to assist functioning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I presume the Minister will outline his priorities, but we will expect to see certain measures during the coming year, for example, the climate Bill and planning legislation. I understand that we will undertake pre-legislative scrutiny on the planning and development (No. 1) Bill. The planning and development (No. 2) Bill will address the Mahon tribunal's recommendations. I was hoping to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This is the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I just wanted to see whether it was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is not that the Bill has been amended. When this legislation was first announced, the intention was for metering to be in place. We will not now have bills based on meters. I understand that the meters have a 15-year lifespan. Is that the case? Are there relevant contractual obligations? I will run through a number of other issues that I wish to raise. I will be jumping all over...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the revised wind farm planning guidelines will be available; the number of submission received; if it is unfair for local communities and planning authorities to be operating in the dark with large-scale proposed developments in advance of the publication of the new guidelines; if it is within his power to initiate a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the cost of water meters installation has had to be revised upwards significantly; if he will make available the precise terms of the final contracts with all agents contracted to install meters; if it is anticipated that, as a result of the changed timetable for water metering to commence, there will be any...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 394. To ask the Minister for Health the range of supports which are available for sufferers of fybromyalgia; if his Department is monitoring reported rates; the cases which have been reported in each of the past five years; if there is a strategy in place to try and tackle the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46038/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks Projects (2 Dec 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 621. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps taken by her Department towards the creation of a Liffey Valley national park in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46167/14]

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The money that transferred across to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is still less than the budget that was available last year, even when the €20 million that transferred to the housing assistance payment scheme is taken into account. I accept the point that has been made about rent assistance as a poverty trap. I have made that point continually...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That is homelessness, but it is not being counted as such.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I read with interest the housing document launched by the Government yesterday. While I welcome any initiative that will deal with the housing crisis around the country, I have said repeatedly that it needs three strands, short, medium and long term. It is clear from the document that the focus is almost exclusively on the medium and long term, referring to 2017-2020, a timeline beyond the...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: How can I?

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: May I speak on the section?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the significant demand for a new Gaelcholáiste in the north Kildare area with parents of over 200 children seeking access to such an educational environment as their first choice; her views that at this point An Aonad does not come close to recognising this need; if she will revise earlier statements that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that class sizes here are the second highest of EU members; to set out her views on the fact that class sizes in County Kildare are among the highest here; her plans to tackle this in view of the fact that the increases in her Department's funding is only sufficient to maintain present pupil-teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Local Government Fund (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide all occasions where he has requested a payment from the Local Government Fund under the provisions of S6 (2C) of the Local Government Act 1998 as amended, indicating the dates the request(s) were made; the amounts requested; the dates such moneys transferred; his plans to seek further funds in this manner before the end of 2014; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (27 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 200. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money paid out of the local government fund to Irish Water under the provision of section 6(2CA) of the Local Government Act 1998 (as amended), indicating the amounts paid, the dates moneys transferred; the purpose of the transfer in each case; his plans to transfer further funds in 2014 or 2015; and if he...

Human Rights Budgeting: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan for tabling this timely motion. It gives us the space to consider what should happen into the future and just as importantly how it should happen. We need to make it happen because it will not happen on its own. Too often we have been a hostage to the past and present when we need to be aspiring to something far better in the future. Equality or a more...