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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (22 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the processes he is currently undertaking to determine climate change mitigation policy; and if he will detail the public participation opportunities incorporated in those processes. [3108/14]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Predominantly the afternoon, although the Bill will be taken for an hour prior to Leaders' Questions.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The problem is we cannot attend. There will not be a quorum. How can we be in two places at once?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: We are deeply unhappy.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Rent supplement is not accepted.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Will the accounts be done at the end of the year?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I must say the Minister is just-----

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is impossible to know and I will tell the Minister the reason.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: It is because I do not know what the service level agreements were in respect of the water.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That is the reason I do not know. I cannot compare like with like.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That payment to the Exchequer was €100 million last year, however.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: So, €500 million extra has gone to the Exchequer.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: People do not realise it though.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I have read them.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: No.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I am not going to the other meeting because this one is very important. The focus of attention has been on water services but there are additional substantial issues at stake. If one wants confusion in terms of income stream versus expenditure stream – pardon the pun - then one must look to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Let us look at page 16 of...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: That is a critical issue that will be raised in the coming months. In terms of the income of local government, some years ago the motor taxation income was ring-fenced for the purpose of establishing the Local Government Fund. That has largely proven to be the case. I have figures from 2006 to 2014. It is a sizeable amount of money – close to €1.1 billion. Basically, what...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
(21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: Absolutely, and the Minister knows it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Amalgamation (21 Jan 2014)

Catherine Murphy: I attended and was deeply involved in some of these well-attended public meetings. Together with the other Deputies, I was aware that people were very clear as to what they sought. There was no expectation that there would be two vertical schools within the community on a single campus and I note this is replicated nowhere else in the country. However, part of the fall-out from that...

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