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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I wish to follow up on Deputy Howlin's point regarding the ownership and management ethos of the national maternity hospital. The Religious Sisters of Charity own the land on which the new facility is being built and the Government is negotiating with the order through its company, St. Vincent's Healthcare Group. That group will have a majority on the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government promises improved intervention for children with special needs but the reality is that we have a national crisis, with hundreds of children on waiting lists for years not getting the early intervention that everybody acknowledges is needed. The State is failing families. There are particular black spots. Tallaght and many other areas of Dublin are among those....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Minister plays with figures and the definition of social housing to create confusion. To be clear, as he said, the plan is to build 6,545 new social housing homes. The plan is not to build 10,000 homes, 20,000 homes or 27,000 homes but 6,545. The figures of 27,000, 20,000 and 10,000 are the equivalent of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's 60 new hospitals and 50,000 new nurses. Can the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Minister should stick to the facts.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: Let us stick to the facts. The Minister should stop talking about 10,000 social housing homes being delivered this year. That is not true. He should stop talking about 20,000 or 27,000 social housing homes being delivered. The Government's plan is to build 6,545 new social housing homes. He cannot seriously claim that more than 2,000 homes leased from private developers amount to social...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Government did not meet them.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build homes to be completed by each local authority by the end of 2019. [51370/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister how many new-build homes are to be completed by each local authority by the end of 2019 because the Government has a mantra that 10,000 social housing units will be delivered this year, which is simply not true. I want him to put the figures on the record to demonstrate that it is not true and that he is engaging in spin worthy of Boris Johnson.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most recent figures on the housing waiting list for four Dublin councils (details supplied). [51371/19]

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: One in four of Deputies who will vote on this measure on Thursday is a landlord. Almost one in three members of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael who will vote on Thursday is a landlord. When Deputy Micheál Martin was asked at the weekend about the double jobbing of one in three Deputies in this House, he stated, "Parliament has to represent the diversity of people." What the Deputy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence Services Funding (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to support a network (details supplied) that includes the vital local service provided by an organisation in view of the 16 days of action to promote domestic violence awareness, which has highlighted that 60% of abuse starts before 25 years of age and that Ireland has only one third of the recommended number of refuge spaces;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence Services Funding (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: Today is the last of 16 days of action to promote domestic violence awareness. I ask the Minister her and the Government's plans to support women's refuges and networks such as Women Together Tallaght Network in the context of some of the facts we have heard highlighted over these 16 days. One in two women murdered in Ireland is killed by her partner or ex-partner, but Ireland only has one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence Services Funding (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I also pay tribute to the work of local women's groups in Tallaght, where not only paid employees but also volunteers make up in some cases for the inadequacies of State provision. I am sure it is the same throughout the country. I welcome the fact that a new refuge is being opened, and I accept that this is not purely the Minister's responsibility. However, the fact that Saoirse Women's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic Violence Services Funding (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise the question of the interaction between domestic violence or intimate partner violence and the housing crisis. Safe Ireland has reported that housing instability is four times more likely to affect women who have experienced domestic violence and that one in four homeless women cites intimate partner violence as a major contributor to her homelessness. This was illustrated...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [50290/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department with the National Economic and Social Council. [50373/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland has scaled back by a third the number of observers it sent to the recent elections in Belarus compared to previous elections in 2015 and 2016; the names of the two observers sent; the basis on which they were selected; if his attention has been drawn to concerns that no open call issued to the official election roster...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary)
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: If it was known that this case was being taken and that it was probably heading towards settlement, why was provision not made for it earlier? Why do we have to deal with it in a Supplementary Estimate?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary)
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: Separately, in the documentation on the Supplementary Estimates for public services, money for this legal settlement is listed under the subhead "Consultancy Services and Other Services". This is where money for a legal settlement is allocated. It does not seem a transparent way of explaining what the money is for. It is certainly not for consultancy services, but for other services....