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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (7 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the outstanding difficulties in relation to the proper remuneration for a person (details supplied) have not yet been resolved; when the person may expect the matter to be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12059/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (7 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons newly appointed teachers who commenced between the 1 January 2011 and 1 February 2012 and who should be entitled to payment at point four of the relevant pay scale, that is, those who formerly received a qualification allowance have not yet been paid at the rate specified in their contracts; when he expects the difficulties within the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Transport (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Reference was made to 100 cars in 2004. A significant number of those cars are close to the 300,000 km limit. I do not buy what the Minister said. I do not ask him to micro-manage but the regional approach to the deployment of Garda personnel is discriminatory in that what one has, one holds. I indicated to the Minister on numerous occasions that there are wide variations and they cannot...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Transport (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in view of recent assurances that highly visible mobile Garda units will be deployed to cover wider geographic areas after station closures come into effect, he will explain the way this is intended to be facilitated in view of the existing wide disparity in the deployment of Garda vehicles and the shortage of vehicles in many parts of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Transport (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: As I have pointed out to the Minister several times, there is not an even distribution of gardaí around the country. There are also wide differences in the ways Garda cars are deployed. I have asked for information on that matter a number of times, but the Minister keeps giving me the same answer, that being, he cannot tell me because he does not have a function in that regard. If he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Transport (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: How can this be avoided in the fleet's absence, particularly in areas that have lost police stations?

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Title of the Bill is the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill but it should really be titled the Health Service Executive (partial governance) Bill because it deals predominantly with new directorates rather than a reform of a whole governance approach to the HSE. The big myth about the HSE when it was established was that it would replace the old health board system. In fact,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Policing Plans (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will explain in detail the elements involved in smarter policing with specific regard to the way imbalances in geographic Garda deployments are taken into account in the application of the policy; if there will be any large scale rebalancing of the way Gardaí are deployed as part of this process; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has or intends to carry out an audit on local authorities to determine an estimate of losses of works insured under Irish Bank Resolution Corporation bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11848/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Research Centres Programme (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of ventures supported financially by the National Digital Research Centre in each year since its establishment including to date in 2013; if he will detail the particulars of the support offered in each case, including amounts granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11821/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Research Centres Programme (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will itemise the total share capital portfolio of the National Digital Research Centre at present; if he will list all ventures in which the NDRC once held share capital, including the value of each investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12007/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ensure that the number of Gardaí deployed in the national force does not fall below 13,000 in 2013; if he intends to recruit extra Gardaí before the end of 2013; if so, if he will ensure that the Garda Commissioner will be cogniscent of the wide disparity in staffing levels across Garda divisions when assigning any new staff;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider, as part of the wider redress scheme that is to materialise in due course for survivors of the Magdalene Institutions, enabling a thorough and comprehensive record facility to be established that would allow survivors and their families access to all available genealogical and other records necessary to locate their families and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Executive Staff (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC directive of the EU is applied to non-consultant hospital doctors, to specialist hospital consultants, to allied health professionals based in hospitals and to nursing staff in hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Information and Quality Authority Inspections (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no legislation to enable the Health Information Quality Authority inspection and oversight amongst hospices and other palliative care centres; if he is planning to address this anomaly; when such legislation can be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11781/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (6 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the DART underground project; his future plans in relation to this project; if any developments are expected in the coming months to advance the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11786/13]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: That there is such an inadequate amount of time is the nub of the problem. Some of us went to the trouble of framing amendments in good faith, but there is no good faith in dealing with them. Even the Title of the Bill belies its intent, as there is nothing local about the tax. It is not raised locally, the money spent will only replace the money withdrawn from the local government fund...

Meath East By-election: Issue of Writ (5 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: It is hard to see how this will not feature as a major issue, particularly in households which are up to their tonsils in debt and, because of recent large-scale development in Meath East, may have forked out huge sums in stamp duty which will not form part of the expected exemptions. The by-election will be seen as an opportunity to make a statement on the performance of the Government, as...

Meath East By-election: Issue of Writ (5 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the moving of the writ for the Meath East by-election. We have seen the last of the protracted delays that were a feature of the past in terms of the holding of by-elections, which is a product of the court ruling in the case taken by Deputy Pearse Doherty. With the late Shane McEntee, I was elected in a previous by-election in March 2005, a day which held fond memories for us...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending to the highly populated area of north Kildare the same provision for the highly populated portion of County Wicklow in which residents may avail of rent assistance at the Dublin rent limit level; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10958/13]