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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 21 October 2015, if he has met with the Respond Housing Association to discuss and resolve the issue of funding for Cuan Álainn. [42651/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 21 October 2015, his progress in resolving the issue of funding of Cuan Álainn women's refuge in Tallaght, Dublin 24. [42650/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposal for a school campus at the Commons on the Hazelhatch Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, and of the planning application made by the Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board for a primary-secondary school campus at the site; the Department or other body that is currently dealing with this application and the related...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Commons on the Hazelhatch Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, site was purchased; who purchased this site; who authorised its purchase; the amount paid; the zoning status when purchased, that is, agricultural, residential or strategic infrastructure; if the site has been re-zoned; and if the purchase was agreed subject to planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans and intentions with regard to a Gaelcolaiste in north Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43137/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given freedom of information documentation (details supplied) from his Department which shows a meeting between himself and a bidder for contracts for the senior alert scheme while an agency under his Department's remit was deciding on the tenders for those contracts, if this represents a breach of normal procedures in a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is normal procedure for minutes of meetings to be taken when Ministers meet with bidders for State contracts under the remit of their Departments; why minutes of a meeting between himself and representatives of a company in the process of bidding for contracts under the Senior Alters Scheme were not taken (details...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: Why not answer the question? In fairness, that is quite suspicious.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: That is pretty much word for word the answer the Minister gave my colleague, Deputy Joe Higgins, a few weeks ago and while it may be true, what is interesting is what has not been included in it. I seek clarification from the Minister. She said one of the approaches adopted involves making use of open source information. What other approaches are used by the Garda to monitor protesters?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: My questions were clear, so why is the Minister refusing to answer the simple questions that arise following the answers she has now given on three occasions? Are members of the public or public representatives subject to any form of surveillance by Operation Mizen or the Garda as a result of participating in anti-water charges protests? The Minister referred to one of the approaches...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there was any investigation within her Department regarding a surveillance programme within An Garda Síochána named Operation Mizen; the approach taken by An Garda Síochána to surveillance of protesters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42694/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister to make a statement about Operation Mizen, which was reported in the Daily Mail as a surveillance operation against anti-water charges protesters. We have asked a number of questions about it and the answers we have received have been more interesting for what they have not said than what they have said. The Minister has denied this is a surveillance operation but she has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 69. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures she will take to tackle the discrimination faced by members of the Traveller community; if she will support the establishment of a Traveller agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42395/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if whales and dolphins in Ireland's 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zone are adequately protected under the European Union habitats directive and national legislation, given the four super trawlers currently fishing in this area; and if observers from his Department or other State agencies are observing the impact of the super...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any super trawlers have been boarded for inspection by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority or by the Irish Naval Service this week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Arrears (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he or any body under his Department's remit is instructing approved housing bodies to actively pursue tenants to pay the water charges arrears; and if those same approved housing bodies are informed in any manner that if their tenants fail to pay the water charges their funding will be affected. [42590/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, between the European Union and Canada; the status of the agreement's investor state dispute settlement, ISDS, mechanism; if the mechanism will threaten the right of European governments to regulate in the interests of workers, consumers, and the environment; and if...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: What is the status of the CETA agreement between the EU and Canada? In particular, I would like to ask about the ISDS within the agreement. I refer the Minister to his comments a few weeks ago when he assured us that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, agreement will not contain a similar ISDS. Is it not the case that US corporations will be able to use the ISDS under...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree the ISDS under CETA is more expansive than that proposed under TTIP, presuming that deal is concluded? Does he further agree it is at least as expansive, if not more expansive, than that under the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA? Does he acknowledge that NAFTA and the ISDS mechanism have made Canada the most sued state in the world, resulting in damages of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (26 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: The ISDS is in place to defend the right of corporations to profit and to say that any interference with that right to profit under the expansive fair and equitable treatment and legitimate expectations provisions constitutes something that they can then sue a state for huge amounts. That can be workers' rights such as in the case of Veolia suing Egypt for increasing the minimum wage;...