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Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister acknowledged there is a problem here. The deadline is this week but the uncertainty will continue for people in this position. Does the Minister expect the issue to be resolved before the property tax is payable for next year? If so, will it require further legislation? What initiatives could be put in place to give clarity in advance of people being obliged to register and...

Finance Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I support amendment No. 49. Some of us engaged with the Pyrite Resolution Board for a period prior to the remediation scheme being put in place. Essentially, the object of the exercise was not to force people to incur needless expense. If a condition survey had been carried out and it was obvious that bits of a house were literally falling down on top of people, then it was not necessary...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Can I get an update on when we are likely to see the climate Bill? How many Bills will be needed to provide for the announced changes in Irish Water? When are we likely to see them? Will a specific social welfare Bill be necessary to remove the PPS number provisions in the existing legislation? Given that an amendment to that effect was ruled out of order during the debate on the current...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is in the Bill.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance the processes by which a company may apply for a tax clearance certificate; the timeframe such a process takes; the diligence the Revenue Commissioners have to conduct in order to issue a certificate; the number of tax clearance certificates that were sought in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and of those the number awarded; if his attention has been drawn to any...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions in which he is involved at European level regarding the growing movement towards recognition of Palestinian statehood; if Irish policy is developing in this regard towards offering recognition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44955/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to seek Cabinet approval to begin the process of offering Irish recognition of Palestine as a nation State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45050/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (26 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the eligibility criteria for applying for the contract to install water meters; the number of bids received; if he is satisfied that all bidders were fully tax-compliant at the time of making their bids; the timeline by which the tendering process was conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45489/14]

Banking Inquiry: Motion (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Much work has been done by the committee in getting to this point. The Committee on Procedure and Privileges has had a number of meetings and has gone through the proposal and the amendments in considerable detail. One of the amendments, with regard to the euro project, is incredibly important. Deputy O'Donnell spoke about what led up to the guarantee and the euro project is central to it....

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: One thing one never used to encounter was the direction of people from the Leixlip-Celbridge area towards Naas as heretofore, they always were directed towards Blanchardstown and Tallaght hospitals. To an increasing extent, Naas is absorbing that major conurbation and consequently this is a kind of pressure the hospital had never experienced previously. I wish to echo the point about the...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I will try not to go over the same territory. Approximately two weeks ago, nurses at Naas General Hospital took the unusual step of going out in protest during their lunch hours. Some of us joined them. The point they were trying to make was that they were presiding over an unsafe service. They took their decision with heavy hearts, as they are proud of their hospital. They were also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: If the consultation process concludes in March 2015, it will probably take another two months to study the submissions and produce a report, which would bring us to May 2015. That would leave only nine months or thereabouts before the start of the commemorations. Even modest events organised at local level require a decent lead-in time. This timeframe imposes limits on what can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: When will the indexes reappear on genealogy.ie?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am very pleased to see both the Minister and the Minister of State here. I made the suggestion because we have two sets of Ministers and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht tends to be the poor relation, which should not be the case. The attendance of so many people here today demonstrates that this area should get more attention than it does from this committee and others....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Future Plans: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I also understand that a few votes are likely to be called in the House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development in Ireland: Irish Planning Institute (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Irish Planning Institute presentation commenced by saying there has been some confusion in regard to planning and that although people tend to talk about the area as a combined entity, there are separate roles and many different players. I understand that as I have spent many days trying to explain to people how things are done. It is obvious significant work needs to be done on various...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on bringing forward legislation to provide for the right of former employees and pension beneficiaries to be represented and negotiate on their own behalf within the industrial relations architecture of the State; the reason such a measure has not been considered up to now; if he will confirm that there is a precedence for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the services of the tenancy protection unit to the areas surrounding Dublin which are suffering a severe housing and homelessness crisis but who have far less resources to deal with the problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45138/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has encountered any unforeseen difficulties arising from the phasing out of the State pension transition payment; if in particular her Department has had difficulties reported to it of persons being forced to retire at 65 and move to a jobseeker's payment; if a particular cohort of persons have been adversely affected by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (25 Nov 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) was inadvertently and incorrectly not provided with an adequate pension following 30 years working as a home help provider with the Health Service Executive and its predecessors; the reason they were informed that they were too old to avail of the pensions scheme at the time of their retirement in January...