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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (15 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has made allowances for the hardship faced by families applying for social welfare schemes who are not entitled to supports under the supplementary allowance scheme regulations but where they must wait for more than 12 months for a decision on their case in total; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30944/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if corrective lenses to aid primary school-aged children with Irlen syndrome associated with dyslexia are covered under optical benefit where their parents or guardians do not have a medical card; and if so, the amount of the cost that is covered; if the full cost of the lenses may be provided for in cases where the parents have a medical card; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homeless Persons Data (15 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 828. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children and young people referred to after-care services who are now accessing homeless services broken down in tabular form by each local authority; the same figures for this time last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31476/14]

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: As others have said, changes in personnel will really mean nothing unless it makes a real change in people's lives. In order to make that change, it would have been necessary to have a new vision. I wish all of those who have been elevated well and I know that on a personal level this is a very important day for them. There is no doubt, however, that this is still the same Government that...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am sure the Minister is not.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: If the Deputy does not mind, I am making my contribution. It is amusing that an instrument of the Crown should be adopted so readily by Sinn Féin, despite its resistance to other aspects. It is entitled to do so, but that point always amuses me.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am not going on a tour of counties, but they have a significant influence on how we designed the electoral system and the composition of the Seanad. The organisation of local government has a direct input into the way in which 43 of the 60 Senators are elected. Up to now, there was a definite rural bias in favour of less populated areas because the value of a vote at local level had a...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I think the public feel conned by the claim that the Government needed a huge majority to give it the strength it needed to introduce radical change. We did not have the promised democratic revolution.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: We got a group of backbenchers who were tightly controlled. If they do not like to go along with decisions, they are chucked out and there is little impact on the Government which can continue on its merry way because of the size of its majority.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The public has learned a lesson about big Governments and how they do not necessarily act in the people's interests. That is not an unfair comment.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This is technical legislation aimed at facilitating a system that is utterly flawed. It will not make a major difference because the margins are tight, but we need to grow up and realise it is not a catastrophe to lose a vote in a democratic system. The Government does not have to control everything.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: This has been described as technical legislation to assist in changes to functions to enable a by-election to be held but it will be a by-election without a popular democratic mandate and I have a problem with that. The people had an opportunity to speak on the abolition of the Seanad, a proposal I supported because these institutions need to be reformed and not because useful work is not...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Appointments to State Boards (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of all persons appointed by him to a State board in 2014 to date in tabular form; the name of the person and board in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30593/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Statutory Instruments (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list and itemise the title and reference of every statutory instrument signed by him from 1 May 2014 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30652/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of total revenue raised through the universal social charge in each year since its introduction; if he will provide a breakdown of revenue raised through the income levy and the former health levy in each year of their operation going back to 2002; if it will be policy eventually to alter or merge the USC with other forms of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Appointments to State Boards (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all persons appointed by him to a State board in 2014 to date in tabular form; the name of the person and board in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30592/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Statutory Instruments (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list and itemise the title and reference of every statutory instrument signed by him from 1 May 2014 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30651/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all persons appointed by him to a State board in 2014 to date in tabular form; the name of the person and board in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30590/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Statutory Instruments (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list and itemise the title and reference of every statutory instrument signed by him from 1 May 2014 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30649/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (10 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all persons appointed by him to a State board in 2014 to date in tabular form; the name of the person and board in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30597/14]