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Written Answers — Department of Finance: General Government Debt (12 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures of the total interest payment made by the State on General Government Debt for each year 1990 to date in 2012 by amount and as a percentage of total Government expenditure in each year. [55705/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programme (12 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the required fields in which a potential pre-school leader must have achieved a level seven major award or equivalent in order to successfully receive the higher rate of capitation under the early childhood education programme; if there is a list of approved qualifications offered by Irish institutions in respect of this; if she will provide...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I met a woman outside Leinster House earlier today who told me she had less freedom than an inmate in Mountjoy Prison. Her home has to be locked down 24-7 because she cares for her young adult son who is autistic and presents such of a flight risk that the Garda helicopter has had to be deployed. He requires adult services, but nothing is available to him. Any home help the family has...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Business of Select Sub-Committee (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Minister likely to be able to give us an update on the negotiations on pyrite remediation? Obviously it is a major issue for those who are affected, and it will be on their minds next year.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: My questions pick up where Deputy Stanley finished on oversight. It would be quite useful for us to get the detail. We are informed that the proposed contribution will enable fulfilment of contractual obligations arising in 2012. I would like to know what the contractual obligations are. Unless we have that detail, which may well be available but which I have not seen, it is difficult to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Was it? No doubt the Minister had an obligation to the commitment in terms of the climate change element of whatever the Department oversees, but when one sees a man dying in the doorway, as somebody did on Friday last, one wants to ensure that whatever is available in that homeless fund is spent. I merely draw attention to the matter because that happened last year and I would not like to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It is about the budget as well. There is €895 million.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The broader parameters of the budget are the €895 million, which on 27 November was the detail of expenditure from the Department, not all of which had been fully committed. It is valid to ask whether all of that will be spent by the end of the year or whether there will be a further meeting next week to deal with other issues. The spending of this money is not a private process...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I see no reason that should not be included in the public arena.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Will it be carried over?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I asked the Minister about the detail on the fulfilment of the contractual obligations of the PEACE III programme.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Minister know the detail of what we are contractually committed to?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars which will be deployed as part of his recent announcement; the locations at which said cars will be deployed; if he has determined the allocation of new cars based on need; if he will state the number of cars that have been retired this year; if there will be similar commitments in terms of new Garda cars in 2013 and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an assessment of staffing needs will be done in advance of the local authorities assuming responsibility for the housing assistance scheme; if such an assessment will be factored in advance of any redundancy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55358/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Management Companies (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to any conflict between guidelines issued by his Department in 2006 Circular Letter PD 5/06 of 5 July 2006 regarding the establishment of management companies in multi-unit developments and the text of the Multi-Unit Development Act, 2010 which defines multi-unit developments; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify under existing legislation the precise circumstances under which a management company may be formed in multi-unit developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55636/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health the way adult services were funded for those with an intellectual disability in 2011 and 2012; if that funding system will remain in place in 2013; If it is intended that any future funding model will be reformed in such a way that the funding follows the client; the number of clients deemed to require such services in 2011 and 2012; the number that received...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health the way adult services were funded for those with an intellectual disability in 2011 and 2012; if that funding system will remain in place in 2013; If it is intended that any future funding model will be reformed in such a way that the funding follows the client; the number of clients deemed to require such services in 2011 and 2012; the number that received...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: To ask the Minister for Health the way adult services were funded for those with an intellectual disability in 2011 and 2012; if that funding system will remain in place in 2013; If it is intended that any future funding model will be reformed in such a way that the funding follows the client; the number of clients deemed to require such services in 2011 and 2012; the number that received...