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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am unsure about this proposal regarding tax clearance certificates. I have no difficulty with Members being tax compliant, as they absolutely should be. Moreover, things should be vouched and open and there should be proper oversight and so on. However, my understanding is no individual receives funding in this way and only political parties actually receive any kind of funding under the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Is that not what this is about?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I mean the amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Very well.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Appeals Tribunal Decisions (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the refugee appeals tribunal; if his attention has been drawn to the particulars of a judicial review regarding a decision of the refugee appeals tribunal (details supplied) which identified many extreme errors and part-attributed the decision to a personal dislike by a tribunal member of the applicant concerned; if his attention...

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

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the existing useable space in buildings at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare may be used in the medium term to provide accommodation for an additional Gaelcolaiste for the north Kildare area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10005/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Job Initiatives (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the new gateway scheme operated between the Department of Social Protection and the local authorities is being considered in parallel with the workforce planning under way in his Department; if so, is there possible progression to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10299/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 239. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the work that is being done on the sustainability of the special projects for disadvantaged youths; if demographics play a part in the allocation of funding; if she is seeking increases in her budget in view of the growing youth population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10227/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the allocation for the SYP project run by KYS in Leixlip will be increased in 2014; if so by how much; if she has concerns about the sustainability of this and other similar projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10241/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (27 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 241. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the the cost of keeping juvenile offenders in custody, if she is working with the Department of Justice on additional measures over and above the Garda Youth Diversion Projects; if so, if she will outline same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10243/14]

Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That requires investment in, for example, IT systems that communicate with each other. If a patient is left on a trolley in an ambulance because there is no hospital trolley or bed available, that essentially is a productivity issue in terms of the use of an ambulance. Everything must fit together. The Norwegian system, which includes a huge public service platform that is based on a good...

Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will indicate, in respect of overall workforce planning within the public service, if there is a planned response to instances where the recruitment embargo is relaxed for individual Departments and-or agencies or if it is the case that embargoes are only lifted in cases where management repeatedly requests that recruitment take...

Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I have asked similar questions to this one on a number of occasions. My primary objective is to ascertain how the Department will decide where to lift the public service recruitment embargo. We are all aware of areas where public service staff numbers are unevenly balanced. This sometimes impacts on the productivity of public services. I heard on the radio this morning, for example, that...

Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: If consideration is being given to relaxing the embargo on public service recruitment, is a workforce planning framework in place against which one could match numbers? Until now, most of the discussion on reform has been focused on cutting costs. A real reform programme must be focused on delivering services differently and redressing the imbalance in public service numbers to close gaps...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the State's total financial commitment in each of the past five years to rents on vacant properties; if he will provide an itemised list of all such properties indicating the annual rent specific to each one; the leases that may be ended or broken in 2014; if the State plans to cease rental of any such properties in 2014; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will indicate, in tabular form, the total expenditure by his Department on external consultancy advice services, including legal services in 2011, 2012 and 2013; if this spend is in line with the overall value for money objective of his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9430/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will indicate, in tabular form, the total expenditure by his Department on external consultancy advice services, including legal services, in 2011, 2012 and 2013; if this spend is in line with the overall value for money objective of his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10013/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate, in tabular form, the total expenditure by his Department on external consultancy advice services, including legal services, in 2011, 2012 and 2013; if this spend is in line with the overall value for money objective of his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10012/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the accommodation levels in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the number of classrooms; its current enrolment; the latest figure for applicants to the school; if the school has applied for an urgent extension of its accommodation; if he will agree to granting an extension of accommodation at the school in view of the increase in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has applied to the buildings unit for an extension to its accommodation; when such an application is likely to be decided upon; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in excess of 90 children have already been refused enrolment in the school for 2014 and that the school has a wider...