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Other Questions: Schools Building Contractors (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: I apologise for missing my slot. I wish to ask the Minister about the measures taken by her Department to ensure that subcontractors used on school construction sites are in compliance with the law and agreements concerning pay and conditions, in particular the use of so-called bogus subcontracting to enable minimum wage and other legislation to be subverted, and that RCT1 contracts are not...

Other Questions: Schools Building Contractors (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: How long will this investigation take? The strike has been going on for almost four and a half months. The JJ Rhatigan company is not a minor company. It won about half of all the school building projects awarded in the previous phase. It is one of the top 100 companies in Ireland and one of the top builders in the country. We have evidence to suggest that workers on that site are being...

Other Questions: Schools Building Contractors (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: How long will the investigation take? On the point about the rate of pay, it is a simple matter of adding up the hours they have worked and the rate of pay and working it out in a simple mathematical equation, which gives the answer of €5 an hour. This is massive exploitation. Fourteen workers have been on strike for four and a half months in very difficult circumstances. This...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 540. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made regarding the promised review of the waste management industry that was made by the Government during the Greyhound company strike in 2014 and its immediate aftermath. [3739/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 541. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority area of the number of new social homes that are targeted to be built by local authorities in 2015 and 2016; the number that are projected to be built by private developers under the proposed planning (No.1) Bill; and the number under public-private partnerships. [3740/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seanad Reform (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 542. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1485 of 17 September 2014, the number of meetings of the technical working group on Seanad Éireann university constituencies that have taken place since 17 September 2014; and when the work of the technical working group will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seanad Elections (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 543. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has conducted any research on the accuracy of the National University of Ireland and University of Dublin Seanad Éireann electoral registers; and if he will report on any interaction his Department may have had with these institutions regarding their electoral registers; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 544. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of inspections of building projects by building control officers, by county, since the introduction of the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014; and if he will report on the technical capacity of the building control management system to check calculations submitted. [3761/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roadworthiness Testing (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that a change is required to the regulations relating to the definition of vintage cars so that there is a rolling 30-year age criteria rather than the current fixed date of pre-1980 vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3538/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (27 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 993 of 14 January 2015, if his Department has funding available for the opening of railway stations; the extent that private funding is relied upon for the opening of railway stations; his views on the matter of providing railway stations in communities that are less commercially attractive to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the continued detention of Ibrahim Halawa, in particular the further postponement of his trial, and if he will report on the work of his Department on the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2665/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Controls (22 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures in place to ensure that technologies and research developed by companies and institutions based here that are involved with the research and development of military capabilities are not used in the violation of human rights; his views on Ireland’s compliance with the Arms Trade Treaty and EU regulations on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on measures taken to ensure that greyhounds bred for racing but not used for racing are not destroyed or mistreated; the number of incidents that have been investigated in 2011 to 2014, inclusive; if he will report on any investigations into destruction of identification of greyhounds; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (22 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any contact his Department has had with the Embassy of Israel to Ireland regarding the case of a person (details supplied); if he will report on any contact the Embassy of Ireland to Israel and the representative office in Palestine have had with Israeli authorities on this case; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (22 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has examined the report of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the CIA's detention and interrogation programmes; if in view of this he has re-evaluated his opinion on the assurances of the US Government that no prisoners were transported through Irish territory; and in view of this report his views that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: My questions are focussed on the European investment plan. In regard to the global figures, obviously, there is a great deal of criticism of the fact that there is no new money in that the €8 billion, multiplied by two, for existing projects and €5 billion from the EIB, is being leveraged up until the figure of €315 billion is reached. Is this a serious weakness in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Wolfgang Munchau said it reminded him of a synthetic collateralised debt obligation. We have just been through a financial crisis which arose because of fictitious capital and this is our answer. In the context of a social revolution across Europe and a Government committed to public investment, would it not be preferable to have an actual €300 billion investment as opposed to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: In terms of the use of the word "de-risk", I agree that does get to it because, in effect, what happens is that the private investors are treated as the senior tranche and the public is the lesser. As such any losses incurred will in the first instance hit the public and, second, the private investment. Risk still exists. A project will either have risks or no risks on its own merits so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: There is a socialisation of risk and privatisation of resources. In terms of dead-weight, how do the Commission and EIB know that these people would not have invested and risked their own money in any case? In other words, the investors, because of the public offering in the form of the Commission and the EIB, now propose to take the risk on and allow the public to take the risk in what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: I have not seen the list of 70 projects. I presume many of the projects listed are infrastructural projects. Mr. Juncker referred in his speech to a school in Thessalonika in Greece and other grand projects in the public services area that could now be properly funded as a result of this. I presume the projects about which we are now speaking are projects that previously would have been...