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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate, in tabular form, the total expenditure by his Department on external consultancy advice services, including legal services, in 2011 to 2013, inclusive; 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. [10011/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation 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. [10015/14]

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

Catherine Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate, in tabular form, the total expenditure by her 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 her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10016/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht 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. [10007/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 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. [10009/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 159. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government 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. [10321/14]

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

Catherine Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Defence 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. [10010/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 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. [10006/14]

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

Catherine Murphy: 213. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will indicate, in tabular form, the total expenditure by her 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 her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10008/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charities and Voluntary Organisations (26 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all instances where a company has been used to identify replacement candidates to fill vacancies on the board of the Central Remedial Clinic; if such a process is under way at present; the total costs involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9891/14]

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

Catherine Murphy: 271. To ask the Minister for Health 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. [10014/14]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I propose to share time with Deputy Peter Mathews.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Deputy Seamus Healy for proposing this important and timely motion. The post office service is at the heart of our community services with a long history of hundreds of years. I remind the House of the importance of the service in ensuring our very survival, given the remittances that kept this country afloat for generations. The post office organisation has been capable of change...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise guidelines and regulations schools must adhere to in the delivery of sex education to pupils; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some schools invite external organisations to provide sex education based on religious beliefs and practice which may be contrary to proper medical advice without seeking parental consent;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Protection (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of European Court of Human Right's Judgment 027(2014), he will introduce comprehensive reforms of the funding-management model of schools to ensure a strong foundation of the sector going into the future; if he will provide details of the implications of the judgment for the current model; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Redundancy Payments (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a former resource teacher (details supplied) is not entitled to claim any redundancy payment even though their employment was ceased because of financial cutbacks and through no fault of their own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9279/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 450. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended that the annual taxpayer-funded subvention to Irish Water will cover the amounts spent by the company in providing the free usage allowance; the amount the free allowance is predicted to cost to provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8990/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 451. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the monetary value of all development contributions collected by each local authority to date which have not been spent; if he will introduce measures that would legally facilitate the drawing down of development contributions which have no reasonable chance of being spent upon the original agreed improvements; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Cycling Facilities Provision (25 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 452. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the annual spend on cycling provision, infrastructure, education and awareness in each local authority in 2013; if he will provide a list of all paved cycle tracks which are at a fully separated grade from other vehicular traffic; the number of such tracks currently in planning...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceapacháin Bhreithiúnacha) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Judicial Appointments) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Deputy Shane Ross for bringing forward this Bill. First, I wish to draw attention to Article 35.2 of the Constitution which states, "All judges shall be independent in the exercise of their judicial functions and subject only to this Constitution and the law". Is our method of appointing judges in keeping with this? I believe it is not. In the debate on Second Stage of the...