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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for a voluntary farm building relocation scheme due to flooding issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the trial on lowering water levels in Lough Allen undertaken by the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group; if there are legal or statutory impediments to such measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34231/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of meetings held by the interdepartmental flood policy co-ordination group in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34232/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the establishment and operation of the national flood forecasting and warning service unit; the number of staff employed in the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34233/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of meetings held by the River Shannon co-ordination group in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount put aside for the pilot scheme of individual home protection measures; the amount of money drawn down; the timeframe for a decision on the future of the pilot scheme's national roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flooding Data (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Office of Public Works' work on riparian rights landowners legal obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34239/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the minor works flood scheme review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34236/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 1200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money paid out humanitarian assistance scheme per annum in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34237/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (13 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: 1201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting times for payment under the humanitarian assistance scheme in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34238/17]

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputies Troy, Cassells, Moynihan and, possibly, Browne.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: I was in the middle of things with the Minister of State on the Bill and what is happening. I was proposing to the Minister of State that if we are to be serious about the development of the west, the Government should set up this new Department there. We have waited for years for something to happen. The Minister of State knows the people have lost patience. Something needs to happen...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: As one who constantly got into trouble with teachers and my parents for not having my homework done as a young fellow, I would like to see this issue discussed. I do not agree with the word "eradicate" in the context of homework. We have to take into account what Senator Kelleher and Deputy Cassells said which is that this is really changing the goalposts. The error I see is that children...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: I agree with my colleagues. I come to this as someone with a little grand-niece and a nephew-in-law with autism. While I pay tribute to the system for the good work it does, parents are unbelievable in these situations. Great work is going on at primary school level. It has come on in leaps and bounds but the Senator is right that there is a gap in what is available at secondary level....

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: From speaking to parents, they do not necessarily want a unit in every single school. What they want is one that is not six, eight or ten miles away.

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: The programme for Government puts a strong emphasis on fighting crime in respect of increasing Garda numbers, reopening six Garda stations and helping communities. As the Taoiseach knows, text alerts are a very important part of this throughout the country. Rumours are circulating in the media that the Government is considering cutting back on the funding that is given to text alerts. I...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: It is in the programme for Government.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: We are not talking about that at all.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: I wish the Minister well. He has certainly rattled the can for the west of Ireland down through the years and he delivered for his own area of Westport and for County Mayo in general.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Eugene Murphy: He will have to deliver more now in Roscommon. I am delighted he got the position and I wish him well. I also wish the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, well. There is a plethora of difficulties, as the Minister well knows, with regard to the west of Ireland. I and my party are of the opinion we must seriously look at the Department being decentralised to the west. The west, as a...