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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rules on the spending of development contributions; if restrictions remain in the context of general Government debt; if he will outline these; the current totals in tabular from, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage accuracy of the updates available to the client-facing interface of the passport tracking system on a monthly basis for the past five years to date in 2022; and the number of instances in which the system was down and-or not operational to the optimum level over the same time period [11426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that her Department is refunding only four years of employee S class PRSI payments in circumstances in which scope found in employees favour and RTÉ therefore backdated all A class PRSI both employer and employee share (details supplied). [11450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and the date on which citizenship may be granted to the person. [11553/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and the date on which citizenship may be granted to the person. [11554/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 694. To ask the Minister for Health if he and-or his officials have reviewed the health insurance levy with a view to reforming the way in which it is applied; and the amount paid to insurance companies from the risk equalisation premium credit annually since it was introduced. [11171/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 708. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention and that of the Chief Medical Officer has been drawn to proposals to expand a refinery in Limerick (details supplied). [11209/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 709. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention and that of the Chief Medical Officer has been drawn to a report (details supplied) regarding human health in Askeaton, County Limerick. [11210/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of site visits that have been made by his public health officials to the Askeaton area in the context of a factory (details supplied); and if his Department has surveyed public health environment in the area. [11220/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Travel (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 725. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 16 February 2022, if he will provide the benefits realised by his Department in respect of travel episodes undertaken in 2018 and 2019 by the former Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People in his Department to Washington, New York and San Francisco; if he will provide further information regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The RTB has increased its staff complement from 45 to 91. There was an expanded remit. Is that the absolute upper limit? Are there still vacancies? Has the RTB sought additional staff or sanction for that from the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: What kind of vacancies are there?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Therefore the RTB is below complement and covering with temporary staff.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is that the optimum or is the RTB seeking further expansion?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. I will leave it at that. I just wanted to see if the board had the people to do the job. There are a couple of areas I want to focus on. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage was before the committee last week. The officials told us they had done a survey or report in 2017 or 2018, I cannot recall the year, and 28% of people in receipt of housing assistance...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I do not want to go into that kind of detail. I do not have the time.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: In other words, when it comes to the data that the RTB has and on which we are supposed to rely, if a significant number are topping up, then the RTB data are not reliable. Would Ms Gallagher accept that is potentially the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage last week gave us a figure of 28% in 2017 or 2018. There is no reason to think that practice has discontinued. If anything it has increased. There is an unreliability about the data on the rents being paid. The RTB is not able to capture that because it is relying on the landlord to provide it with the information.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I understand this from a tenant's perspective because I deal with them day in, day out. The thing is that it does not get declared.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Residential Tenancies Board - Financial Statements 2020 (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Murphy: What I am looking at is the reliability of the rents. We are told that the RTB is the most reliable source because they are the actual rents paid but in fact they are not the rents paid in many cases where people are topping up and that is not being declared. My next question is on rent pressure zones and the RTB's function. I noted there was a high level of satisfaction with tenants but...