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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason broadband service of at least 100 mbps is not available to businesses and consumers in the north-eastern Kildare area; the measures that are being rolled out to address this issue; if he will provide an update on the progress of the exemplar network; if the scheme will be expanded beyond the Dublin area; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the most recent available breakdown, in tabular form, of all costs incurred by Irish Water to date, including contracts entered into but not yet paid and including specifically itemised figures for each of the following categories of expenditure, salaries and wages, bonuses, recruitment, training,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Application (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 303. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the commencement notices are no longer being published at local authorities for viewing by members of the public; his plans to rectify same by making the centralised database of commencement notices available for inspection online; if he is further planning to include a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Care Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 497. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied) in County Kildare where there is currently inadequate care being provided to two extremely ill children with a rare, serious condition; if he will provide an update on efforts to provide the children with the precise and expertise care they need in their home; if he will ensure continuity of care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 498. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a list of all nursing agency services who have been contracted by the Health Service Executive to provide medical care by each location in each of the past five years to date; if he will further indicate the number of agency staff who are engaged to provide palliative care and complex care of patients with serious chronic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 499. To ask the Minister for Health the factors that are taken into account by the Health Service Executive when determining the best provider of agency staff; the way contracts are selected; if contracts are put to tender; the oversight that exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28089/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list all occasions in each of the past five years to date where the Health Service Executive found an external nursing or medical staff agency with which it had a contract to be in breach of the contract and basic standards of care; the steps that were taken in respect of each; if any serious consequences for patients arose in each case; if an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 501. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is appropriate that a child with Pffeifer syndrome should not have access to a specialised team of care givers under the home care package which can fully respond to the needs of the child; if the provision of agency staffing to provide care in these instances can lead to gaps in care provision due to a lack of continuity; if it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 506. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the care options that a child with a chronic, serious condition that requires near-constant care is entitled to; if, in providing such care through the home care package, any consideration is given to the continuity of the person providing the care and if this is the best option for the child instead of rotating agency staff; if in many...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the present law and policy architecture regarding food allergies; if he will follow the US and UK models in this area; if he is considering new guidelines for the dispensing of emergency epinephrine autoinjectors at pharmacies and making them mandatory in restaurants and other places where the public consume food or congregate in large...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (1 Jul 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 537. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list times for children to access allergy testing and consultation; the locations around the State where such services are available; if he will provide general figures indicating the numbers of persons seeking treatment for food allergy related conditions over the past ten years; if there have been increases in the number of cases of...

Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: A Cheann Comhairle, can I be helpful?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: We have just watched - some of us in total frustration - the fundamentally flawed Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 being passed by the House. The Bill which contains major flaws is not the problem. The greatest flaw of all is the lack of a coherent housing strategy to take account of the bigger picture and focus on the economic and social consequences of how we plan and deliver...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: No one will benefit from a short-term or short-sighted approach to this problem. We need a coherent and multifaceted plan that will encompass several Departments. There are people in third level institutions such as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, NUIM, and the Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT, who are doing excellent work on this matter and have written widely on it....

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I do not know why the Minister of State would be introducing regulations or a statutory instrument when she could do what we desire in primary legislation. It does not make any sense at all. The amendment on transfers is fundamentally about the policy on delivering social housing. I read the Fine Gael local election manifesto and noted that it matches completely what the Minister of State...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied that the changed rules governing entitlement to the one-parent family payment will not lead to an increase in the number of children in poverty, currently at more than 200,000; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the changes will result in many families being forced into lower household incomes at a time when...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of recipients of one-parent family payment who will transfer to a jobseeker's payment, family income supplement or carer's allowance on 3 July next; the achieved or expected saving to the Exchequer arising from the changed rules in each year from 2012 to 2015 inclusive; if her Department has evidence that the changed rules will create...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she has proceeded to implement the changed rules governing the one-parent family payment when she agreed on the record of Dáil Éireann on 18 April 2012 that seven years was too young for a family to contemplate removal of that support without a system of safe, affordable and accessible child care in place, similar to what is...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total number of whole time equivalent staff for each local authority on this date in 2009 to 2013, inclusive, and at present; if he will indicate in the same table the total number of staff from each local authority who have transferred to Irish Water, including the numbers on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total breakdown of general purpose grants allocated to each local authority in 2009 to 2013, inclusive, and in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27775/14]