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Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: The results are now available regarding the changes in eligibility for the one-parent family payment which the Minister implemented. Rather than supposedly supporting a return to work, the payment represents one of the most regressive swingeing anti-woman policies implemented by this Government. Would the Tánaiste agree, therefore, that instead of continuing with the transference of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of part-time workers in receipt of family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17325/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance If it was normal procedure for no minutes to be taken of meetings between the Secretary General of his Department and the board of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if minutes were taken for the meeting between persons on 1 and 2 August 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17583/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Council Meetings (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the upcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting with particular reference to the Government’s position on the in-depth review of the macro-economic imbalances procedure and the implementation of structural reforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17584/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Council Meetings (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the upcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting with particular reference to the Government’s position on the aging report 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17585/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recently announced loss of 1,500 jobs in AIB's Financial Solutions Group and the answers provided to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform where the bank stated that outsourcing is key to reducing its cost base, his views regarding the erosion of job security and working conditions in the banking sector;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance if the decision in budget 2014 to grant banks the ability to fully offset losses against all profits each year against corporation tax has been approved by the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17587/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the €1.67 million remuneration package to the chief executive officer of Ulster Bank, if he will introduce caps on the remuneration of chief executive officers of all banks or other such measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17588/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Job Losses (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has estimated the number of jobs lost as a result of cuts to public spending from 2009 onwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17589/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason table 10 in the stability programme update of April 2015 does not include a line showing the underlying general government primary balance, as has been provided in previous years; and if he will provide that information. [17885/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Sameh Shoukry, in New York in the United States of America; his views on any developments in the case of a person (details supplied) who is detained in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17349/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 435. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the current situation in Burundi, and the violence used against protesters. [17717/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 436. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 21 April 2015, his views on the death of a person (details supplied); his further views on the policing of minority communities in the United States of America, following a number of deaths, with particular reference to the city of Baltimore; if he has made any representations to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the presidential election result in Kazakhstan; his views that there was a fair and democratic election process in the recent Kazakh presidential election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17719/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Control of Dogs (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 559. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of studies showing a higher rate of hospitalisations from dog bites (details supplied) here in comparison to other European Union States, if his Department is reviewing the situation; if measures are being considered, including legislative change, to deal with the matter; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Rangers (6 May 2015)

Paul Murphy: 610. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the internationally recognised importance of Bull Island in north Dublin as a nature reserve, and the ongoing threat to its wildlife from persons and unleashed dogs, if she will arrange for funds to be made available for the employment of a wildlife ranger and dog warden exclusively for the island; and if she will make a...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Government in preparing its spring statement was perhaps reading some of the works of the 19th century English novelist, Samuel Butler, who advised that "the advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places". The Government took full advantage in a full week of Dáil time to do exactly that but it is a little...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (30 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if asking candidates in interviews for positions in the civil and public service regarding their political views is prohibited or in breach of any guidelines. [17038/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Council Meetings (30 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 122. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on discussions held with European Union counterparts on possible military action connected to the current humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17005/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Council Meetings (30 Apr 2015)

Paul Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on any discussions held with European Union counterparts regarding refugees from North Africa; if she supports granting visas to persons from the Middle East and north Africa fleeing the conflicts in the region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17004/15]