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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's call in 2016 for the Government to provide a clear and accessible legal framework to regularise the status of children and their families in irregular migration situations; if her Department plans to create such a legal framework; and if so, the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will detail the parameters of the good character requirement in the naturalisation application process; if her Department has any intention of clarifying the definition of the good character requirement in legislation or through a statutory instrument; and if so, the details and timelines for the plan. [53686/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of revocations of certificates of naturalisation from 2000 to date in tabular form. [53687/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has considered the introduction of an independent appeals mechanism for naturalisation decisions; and if so, the details and timelines for the introduction of same. [53688/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of stateless persons in the country from 2000 to date; and the number of stateless children in the country from 2000 to date in tabular form. [53689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department plans to introduce a formal process for determining statelessness, a regularised system for recognising stateless persons in Ireland or a process for stateless children who migrate to Ireland; and if so, the details and timelines for the plan to implement such a process. [53690/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 207. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development in the context of a correspondence item sent to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (details supplied) by the Secretary General of her Department, if she will clarify whether the national funding platform that she is developing in conjunction with Pobal will be an open source for the public to use; if not, the rationale for...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. It is not possible to separate land use from transport planning and we must look over a long horizon to see what the trends are. In the mid-1990s, there was scenario testing for how the greater Dublin area was going to develop. It was intended that there would be a greater concentration of development in the city centre and, further...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with the Minister for Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of reviewing and or amending planning guidelines or regulations in respect of SEAI-funded solar installation on houses; if his attention has been drawn to the requirement in some instances in which an applicant for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and or his officials will review the planning requirements for the installation of solar panels on houses. [53307/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the “exceptional file” also known as the ghost file generated by his Department’s driver and vehicle computer services division; the number of disqualifications received from the Courts Service each year since 2017 that were inputted to the exceptional file due to the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with banks and or the Central Bank in respect of the timeframes that the banks have set for borrowers to draw down mortgages once approval has been sanctioned; if his attention has been drawn to the issue for borrowers facing interest rate increases on loans that cannot be drawn down due to building works on properties not being completed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available from her Department for those completing educational psychology trainee courses who are on placement in the children's disability network team. [52699/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding increases, if any, that have been made to the early childhood care and education scheme since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53412/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of profitability for sessional services funded via the early childhood care and education scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53414/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the circumstances of the closure of a montessori (details supplied) in Tuam, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53415/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which many early learning and care services have engaged with county childcare committees in relation to financial sustainability in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are available to services, either private or community, to support them with financial sustainability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend the Multi Unit Development Act; if he will provide guidance on the criteria and thresholds that must be met in order to make a determination that an estate is unfinished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52902/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Today's from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, about the wastewater treatment plants is very concerning. Millions of litres of raw sewage continue to be discharged into our rivers and our seas every day. Only half of our sewage was treated to EU environmental standards in 2021. That is way below the EU average of 90%. In Ringsend, which is in the Minister's constituency, sewage is...