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Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for accommodating post-primary students in Maynooth, County Kildare; if there is scope to expand the current school; if a new site has been purchased; and if so the details of same including the size of site, the location and the cost and the facilities that are intended for the new site; if he is satisfied with the...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been taken to grant a school (details supplied) an additional special needs assistant to offer full-time assistance to a person; if not, when the decision will be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15551/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she plans to review the operation of the rent supplement scheme with a view to introducing a code of conduct for rent supplement eligibility similar to that which operates for local authority tenants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15618/11]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 349: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he intends to publish a national landscape strategy; if so, when a draft strategy will be published for consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15513/11]

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 382: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to undertake a risk assessment of the impacts of peak oil; how they might affect Ireland; if he intends to create an associated short-term and long-term crisis management plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15529/11]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 393: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the responsibility that falls to local authorities in the case of apartment developments which will be managed by a management company to ensure they are fully completed in accordance with the planning permission; in the case of mixed developments, the obligation the local authorities have to take such...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 418: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he considers there is an urgent need to enact domestic climate change legislation in view of the fact that the Labour Party introduced the cross-party Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security Bill into the Oireachtas on 30 December 2010 and that the former Government published a...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 482: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures that the Legal Aid Board has in place to ensure persons in custody who require legal representation in family law cases receive such representation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15381/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 551: To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to implement, in whole or in part, the Neurological Alliance of Ireland ten-point action plan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15724/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 552: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons by county, currently being treated for acute neurological conditions; the average time it takes, by county, for persons with sudden onset neurological conditions to access specialist treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15726/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 575: To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of permanent and temporary, whole-time equivalent, staff employed in the Health Service Executive for 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15522/11]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: With regard to the pilot project in Dún Laoghaire, is every claimant profiled?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Does that add dramatically to the administration of the claim? If the pilot is passed, is it intended to extend it to other areas? Is it computer based?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I would take a fairly similar view to Deputy Wallace. Although in principle internships are a reasonably good idea which give on the job training, a strict regime and control is required to ensure the level of abuse is limited. There will always be abuse of that kind of system. In Germany the welfare system was used when the economy was flat to keep people at work so such people did not...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: On Deputy Ó Snodaigh's point, FLAC has a great deal of experience dealing with people where something has been drafted in such a way that it has produced problems. We want to avoid that kind of situation because we will end up with appeals and it becomes expensive to administer, apart from the fact it would single out particular groups. I am sure the Minister has had the benefit of the FLAC...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Birth and death rates are the two primary figures used to arrive at population levels between census years. We have been experiencing a baby boom which, judging by reports from maternity hospitals, appears to be continuing. One issue that must also be factored in is emigration. It is a younger cohort of people who emigrate. We have had a history of emigration so there are things we can...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I would like to reiterate some of the points already made. I take the Minister's point about people living longer, being healthier and wanting to work beyond the current pension age. We all agree that someone who wants to work, is able to work and has a contribution to make should be free to do so. However, there are worlds of difference between types of employment. I saw my late father...

County Enterprise Boards (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply. My attention had been drawn to an inadequacy in this respect in Kildare and I note that there is a means whereby funds can be moved from one place to the another. It appears obvious that the success rate of start-ups is very much predicated on the amount of effort spent on business planning and feasibility studies before the...

Written Answers — County Enterprise Boards: County Enterprise Boards (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has considered or will consider altering the organisational structure and administration of the county enterprise boards from a county to a regional basis; his views on whether the narrow definition of county creates a false barrier to industry and individuals that straddle county boundaries and thus encounter...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2011)

Catherine Murphy: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 12 May, 2011, the consultation process for transposing the 2003 EU regulatory framework of the telecommunications market will be extended beyond the telecommunications industry to include relevant consumer groups and the general public; and if he will make a...