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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Another question relates to where the bank has repossessed properties. A common complaint many of us encounter is that when people see boarded-up houses they presume they are owned by the council, but often they are not owned by the council but by banks. Non-governmental organisations, NGOs, have said there is a process of repossessed houses lying empty for a period of time. Threshold told...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: From reading the figures it would seem that a lot of buy-to-lets are on tracker mortgages - that a disproportionate number of buy-to-let properties are on tracker mortgages versus owner occupiers. Is that accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: What if ECB interest rates rise, which they will do at some point? It is just a question of time. Will that create a knock-on problem for tenants in terms of buy-to-let mortgages?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: Richard Curran of the Irish Independentdescribed it as the great unexploded financial time bomb ticking away in Ireland waiting to be detonated by rising EC interest rates. If there were to be a significant rise in interest rates would many people with buy-to-let mortgages get into difficulties?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 56. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has assessed the impact on youth poverty of the lower rates of unemployment allowance; if so, the findings of such an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36028/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 64. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the way child maintenance is considered in means tested payments in view of the fact that often families can be worse off if in receipt of the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36027/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans on cutting unemployment payments following reported comments (details supplied) made at a recent Pobal conference in Dublin City University; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36026/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Waiting Times (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the processing times for carer’s allowance and benefit applications; the measures he will take to reduce these times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36025/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has reviewed the number of properties available to rent within the rent allowance limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36029/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider reviewing the regulations for rent supplement for those who are in homeless accommodation in view of the costs and difficulties they face; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35946/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person's family (details supplied) were not informed of case funding review meetings; if any further case funding review meetings will take place; if a date will be fixed for the assessment from the HSE that the person has been due to receive since March 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35891/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 427. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to the Tallaght drug and alcohol task force each year since its foundation in 1997 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35949/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider increasing the funding to the Tallaght drug and alcohol task force in view of the fact that the task force did not receive a commensurate increase in its budget following the increase in its responsibilities when alcohol was added to its remit in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35950/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 429. To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing the budget for drug and alcohol task forces; his further views on whether increased funding should form part of the new strategic action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35951/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (22 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 446. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of 24-hour emergency dental cover; if his Department has made any plans to expand the coverage of emergency dental cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36153/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress towards reaching the goal in Rebuilding Ireland that by mid-2017, emergency hotel and bed and breakfast type accommodation for families will only be used in limited circumstances. [35428/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: NAMA Assets Sale (17 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the advertisement of NAMA rental properties for sale on the basis of the potential for large rent increases and reports that a bank (details supplied) intends to sell off up to €1.9 billion in distressed buy-to-let mortgages to vulture funds, in view of the impact this could have on tenants; and...

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Government would like to get away from the core issue, which is pay equality. I do not think it can because that is central, but it would like to. For example, the question of increments is fine. Nobody has a problem with the idea that someone who has ten years experience should be paid more than someone with five years experience - that is not what we are talking about. However, some...

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he envisages difficulties in recruiting extra teachers, as outlined in the budget speech made by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, in view of the inferior terms and conditions for new teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30837/16]

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (16 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: In last month's budget, the Government set out its plans to recruit an additional 2,400 teachers. How on earth does the Minister expect to recruit teachers given that new teachers are beginning on a lower payscale? How does he think new entrants can be attracted into a two-tier system in which unequal pay for equal work is enshrined?