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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (31 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to take part in JobBridge under the youth guarantee. [13018/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (31 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance reduced or suspended for refusing to take part in the gateway scheme. [13019/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (31 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have taken part in the gateway scheme in the Fingal, South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown, Dublin City, County Carlow and County Kilkenny local authority areas; the number of placements that are ongoing; and the number that have been completed. [13022/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (31 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the discussions held regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Commission and at the recent Council of Ministers meeting held in Riga in Latvia; and his position on the model of investor state dispute settlement for the partnership. [13147/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (31 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 427. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the shortage of social workers for children at serious risk; the measures he will take to remedy this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12824/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 448. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, where availability of theatres for surgical procedures is severely curtailed due to budgetary measures, which results in longer waiting lists, hardship for patients and frustration for staff who cannot provide the quality of service they wish for patients; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Library Services Provision (31 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 654. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a system of charges for the use of local authority library services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13128/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (26 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the State, in October 2014, communicated to the European Commission its support for the inclusion of an investor state dispute settlement mechanism in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12087/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on au pairs and domestic workers being paid the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12086/15]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: Tairgim leasú a 8:I leathanach 5, líne 9, “bliain agus fiche” a scriosadh agus “ocht mbliana déag” a chur ina ionad.I move amendment No. 8:In page 4, line 10, to delete “twenty-one years” and substitute “eighteen years”.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: Tairgim leasú a 4:I gCuid 1, leathanach 7, líne 3, "bliain agus fiche" a scriosadh agus "ocht mbliana déag" a chur ina ionad. agus I gChuid 2, leathanach 7, líne 5, "twenty-one years" a scriosadh agus "eighteen years" a chur ina ionad.I move amendment No. 4:In Part 1, page 6, line 3, to delete "bliain agus fiche" and substitute "ocht mbliana déag". and In Part 2,...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: No.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: The point is that the Government-----

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: -----is not interested in dealing with young people. With regard to the Bill, the notion Deputy Mitchell put forward that Irish people can lose the run of themselves by electing a 21 year old President - the idea that the worst thing that could possibly befall the State is that the people in a democracy would elect somebody who happened to be 21 rather than 35 or older - is bizarre. The...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: We were the only ones who put down amendments to the Bill.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: We have here a proposal from Government, originating from the Constitutional Convention, for involving young people in politics. The Government is able to find the time and the space for a referendum on this issue but has refused to provide a referendum for the much more urgently needed repeal of the barbaric eighth amendment of the Constitution. We will vote in favour of this referendum...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: I do. I also understand-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will put my question. What consolation prize is the Taoiseach going to give the Labour Party for enthusiastically hammering the final nails in its coffin? Will the party take the chance? Will the Taoiseach take the chance of voting for the Private Members' motion by the anti-austerity alliance tonight to abolish water charges?

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall and that is the situation facing the Government. It is in that moment between pride and a fall. Faced with a huge protest on Saturday and the prospect of a massive boycott, all talk of listening has been forgotten and replaced by a high-handed, arrogant and bullying approach. The Minister for the Environment, Community and...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will finish on this point. Was Elizabeth Arnett of Irish Water not correct when she said this morning that there would be no penalties in the case of the first four bills? People can, therefore, refuse to pay, without penalty until after the next general election. They can join the group that will bin their bills outside the Dáil on 18 April. This campaign will sink water charges,...