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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the figures provided to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on 24 November 2015 projecting 950 local authority new builds and acquisitions and 440 new units under the capital assistance programme by the end of 2015 when compared with the latest on his Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (9 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has analysed the proportion of council homes purchased under previous tenant purchase schemes that have ended up owned by landlords in the private rented sector, and how many of these are rent supplement, housing assistance payment or rental accommodation scheme tenancies. [44274/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 340. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will request Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to meet with representatives of the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of funding for their counselling services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43811/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to meet with the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of funding for their special needs programme and for a clinical director of counselling services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43809/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who needs respite care from St. Michael's House and the Health Service Executive. [43810/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (8 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to meet representatives of the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of a dedicated literacy co-ordinator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43812/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I thank the delegation for attending and for the presentation. The engagement between the Government and the IFAC over recent weeks has been amusing to watch. Although the Government, at the suggestion and demand of the Commission, set up a body designed to push for austerity at all times and to be independent of public pressure, it expressed its discomfort with that body when it did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: Surely the most obvious vulnerability is US politics, especially in light of the Pfizer–Allergan merger. The merger, which will minimise the amount of tax paid by locating in Ireland, has brought the question to the centre of US politics. It is featuring to some extent in the US presidential election campaign. The most obvious vulnerability is the United States changing its tax code...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: It speaks to a broader point about the extent of our reliance on multinationals for the driving of economic growth and about the nature of the activity that takes place here. We do not deny that real economic activity by multinationals in Ireland has resulted in significant job creation. I believe they account for approximately 7% of jobs. I have read some statistics relating to the files...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: My final question may relate to what we have just been discussing. Many people feel it is something of a paradox that the substantial and impressive headline growth rates that are undoubtedly being achieved are not being felt by the majority of people. That is not just a political statement. In opinion polls, a slight majority of people say they do not feel a recovery. Clearly, some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: Is contract manufacturing a part of that? It appears on the balance sheets and is included in GDP, but it does not necessarily relate to anyone producing anything in this country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: You say "as well".

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 22 October 2015 regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24, the status of the serious delays in the provision of occupational therapy and other treatments from the school age team in the Dublin South-West area; the measures that were taken to improve the Health Service Executive's situation; his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (3 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the situation in Tallaght Hospital in Dublin 24 for staff who engage in whistle-blowing, as in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42939/15]

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the Bill and agree with its different aspects. The broadening of the definition of homelessness is necessary and reflects the reality that there are thousands upon thousands of people in a condition of homelessness. They perhaps do not fit people's traditional image of what homelessness is, which is generally equated with rough sleeping, which continues to persist in our society....

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I would like to speak in support of the Anti-Austerity Alliance amendment and a similar amendment tabled by Deputy Shortall proposing the deletion of section 7(3)(c). We had a tremendous movement from below for equality which was reflected in the massive "Yes" vote in May of this year, which ended discrimination against LGBTQ people in regard to marriage. That was welcomed by the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief. In his response to our amendments and why they cannot be accepted, the Minister of State effectively gave the game away with the line that it would interfere with the right to property and by property, one should read the right of landlords to maximise their profit, their rent, from their tenants and, fundamentally, to do what they like with their properties. That sums it...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I am speaking on our amendments to Seanad amendment No. 53. Part of the resolution to the housing crisis will be to increase the rights of tenants and to create a situation whereby the legal balance between tenants and landlords is shifted so that tenants can have security of tenure without the risk of being turfed out at short notice and can develop a home and connections with their...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 3 to Seanad amendment No. 48:In section 19(1)(b), in the inserted subsection (2A), to delete paragraph (c) and substitute the following:“(c) include a statement by the landlord that in his or her opinion the new rent is not greater than for a dwelling in the Dublin area (as defined by the Private Residential Tenancies Board Rent Index) the rent charged on the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 5 to Seanad amendment No. 48:In section 19, to delete subsection (2).