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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the independent working group report on asylum seekers that, among other issues, recommends the provision of residency to those who are over five years in direct provision centres and an increase in the weekly allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27088/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: What are the Minister's views on the report of the independent working group on direct provision, which is damning and contains limited recommendations on the provision of residency to those who have been more than five years in direct provision and on an increase in the weekly allowance? Does the Government intend to take on board these recommendations and make those changes?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. Does she agree that the current situation is inhumane and intolerable, as described accurately by the Minister of State? I am sure that she has visited the centres where conditions are inhumane and intolerable. People have no individuality or freedom over what they do in their lives and are dependent on their centres to provide food that may not be of sufficient...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Certificates (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will revise the fee charged for a naturalisation certificate; her views that the fee is a barrier to citizens from other European Union states becoming Irish citizens in view of the fact they do not have to renew visas at cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27076/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the passage of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 through Dáil Committee Stage, her views on the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; if she will report on the work of her Department on the Interdepartmental Committee dealing with the Convention's ratification;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Religious Discrimination (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the rights of non-religious and minority faith persons, specifically in the context of a recent review of that issue by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. [27075/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans on the passage of a marriage equality Bill through Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27074/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the online appointment system for Garda National Immigration Bureau, promised for the end of the first quarter of 2015, will be brought on stream; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27072/15]

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: In these amendments we are dealing with the other Bill being rammed through in the pre-existing Bill that has nothing to do with water charges or waste. It is a substantial piece of work which deserves its own process of scrutiny, not the 40 minutes we have been allocated, after which it will be law. The Government is dealing with the fruits of bin charges and the privatisation of waste...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: They have missed the deadline.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I had already booked.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: It is not what I said.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I sat down with their workers.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I heard him say that before.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: He must have said that five times already in this debate.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I have heard it many times before.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: Although I will not be here, I will be voting on it and fighting in Greece against the same austerity agenda. I have confidence in the ability of Deputies Ruth Coppinger and Joe Higgins to talk along the same lines as I do.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Bill that will be discussed tomorrow applies only to debts owed and judgments already given by the court of at least €500. This means that it will take two years of non-payment before the first of two court cases could take place. We are not hiding it from people. We are saying that if the Government remains in power and committed to water charges, court cases could begin at the...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: Of course.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paul Murphy: I have a lot of points to which I wish to respond that have arisen in the course of the debate. It was good to see the pat on the back from Fine Gael for the Minister to thank him for not going on a different path. The Labour Party could have but it decided to go along the Fine Gael path to implement the water charges in contravention of their mandate.