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Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I will. This development will create new caring needs. It makes no sense at all. The State must either provide direct support to carers to allow them to provide the necessary care or provide the services itself. As it stands, there is no adequate provision for either option.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I have a problem with the Title of the Bill on a number of grounds. First, I cannot figure out what piece of property someone owns if they are in negative equity. If a person's income is below a certain threshold and the tax is deferred, the liability can follow that person around, even after their house has been repossessed. Second, the word "local" is a misnomer. Only 65% of the revenue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to make a couple of points. As regards the accreditation system, I have watched a lot of planning permissions over the years, including ones where an environmental impact assessment is required. They are required to be independent but I found it strange that in all those years I never saw one arguing against the proposal. I would have thought there would be something that would not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: When there is a planning application that requires an environmental impact assessment - and those assessments are supposed to be independent - I have never seen one argue anything other than positively in favour of the application in every respect. One would have thought that some of them would have been neutral at least on the proposal that was being made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want to make another argument, but that is it.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her proposals in relation to the proposed Child and Family Resource Agency; if she will confirm that resources granted to the new agency will be given on the understanding that they will be applied over as wide a geographical spread as possible; if she will outline the proposed budget for the new agency; if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her responsibility in relation to children who require the services of domestic violence shelters; if she will confirm that all domestic violence shelters which cater for children as well as adults meet Health Information and Quality Authority standards; if she will outline the cooperation her Department has with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Maternity Leave (18 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to his statement following Budget 2013, if it is his intention to reduce entitlement of teachers and special needs assistants to maternity leave-in-lieu arrangements; if it is his intention to eliminate all entitlements to such maternity leave-in-lieu arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56449/12]

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: This legislation has two aims. The first is to change reference pricing. We all realise we adhere to a very narrow band and if we were to reference against the other 26 EU member states it would considerably reduce the cost of drugs. The second aim is to allow for a greater use of generic drugs instead of branded drugs. I take the point made that generic drugs would not exist if it was not...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: According to the Government, this tax is set to bring in €500 million. Let us suppose everyone pays it; it is reasonable for people to ask what they will get for it. What they get is a dysfunctional local government system. Local government fund spending has been reduced from €999 million at its peak in 2009 to €615 million in 2012, a reduction of €384 million or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It is welcome to hear that we are likely to see the heads of the climate change Bill before Christmas. There would have been a difficulty with our credibility if we had not kept to the timeline. What happened in Doha cannot be separated from the work that will be done during the Irish Presidency. The Minister said he had bilateral talks with many European environment Ministers. Will...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister is filibustering.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Even people who are not affected by the reduction in the respite care grant are deeply concerned by it. In fact, it has become a lightning rod for public dissatisfaction with Government policy. If the Minister listens to the people in her own party and in Fine Gael, she will discover that they all have their antennae up and have realised that this measure is unacceptable. It is purely a...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The number of people now discovering that what they had hoped would be a guaranteed pension at 65 is not what they hoped for has become more obvious during this year. This measure tends to affect disproportionately people who have had to take time out of the workforce and that is the reason I oppose this section.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I do not even want an answer from the Minister.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Why is the Chair stopping me?

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I spoke on this subject last night. The Minister opened the debate this morning by claiming that we are confusing matters. She is confusing matters. This is precisely the issue I addressed last night. Will child care places be made available for all those who are forced onto jobseeker's benefit when their youngest children turn 12 after 3 May 2012? I do not want a response. I merely...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister is not addressing the issue raised.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: On a point of order, please.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: On a point of order, please.