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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 am interested in an insight from the Department of Finance on how the European semester works in practice. We know there are set pieces whereby member states produce certain things and these are discussed by the Commission and at Council level. It happens in parallel across member states. In practice and culturally, has there been a shift after the introduction of the European semester...

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: No, it is precisely what I am interested in. I have another question on the collapse of investment. The witness gave a figure of 15% at EU level and it is a multiple of that in the Irish level. It is probably still 50% or 60% down on what it was.

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: Obviously an amount of the 2007 level of investment was in construction, not all of which would be viable. Mr. McCarthy says that is the main reason for the scale of the collapse, but why are we still bumping along the bottom? Obviously, there was an uptick in investment but according to the latest quarter for which we have reports, it went down again slightly and certainly did not rise....

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: Is research and development now included in investment?

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: However, it does not necessarily affect the percentage figures because Mr. McCarthy is counting backwards and including research and development.

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: It means the percentage of GDP is therefore distorted. We were talking previously about a 10% or 11% figure.

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: If we had had the new mechanism of accounting, it would not have dropped to that level.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports (details supplied) of hospitals that have denied treatment to new public patients in an attempt to lower waiting lists; the timeframe within which this practice has been practised; the number of patients who have been denied treatment or have had treatment delayed as a result of this policy; the measures in place to end this practice;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent increase in the Nursing and Midwifery Board’s registration fee from €100 to €150 (details supplied) and on reports that nurses and midwives that do not pay the additional €50 have been threatened with being taken off the register. [2380/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the upcoming Landlord and Tenant Reform Bill will propose to reform the law concerning estate management companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2950/15]

Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: Once again, we are told we have a monumental step forward, as the First Minister, Peter Robinson, put it; the Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, described this document as astounding; and the US diplomat, Meghan O'Sullivan, described it as a new era for Northern Ireland politics. In contrast to all of the empty bluff and bluster, the ad by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 492. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to the ambassador for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Ireland regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and 1,000 lashes for criticism of the authorities in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2225/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of seized dogs or dogs otherwise in the care of local authorities by county for the past three years; and the number of these dogs that were successfully rehomed. [2230/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if measures are being considered to publish the registers of seized dogs as per section 14 of the Control of Dogs Act 1986 held by local authorities online or in a form easily accessible to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2231/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures put in place by his Department to ensure that dogs in the care of local authorities are adequately cared for with appropriate accommodation and veterinary care, including those put into the care of outsourced companies or institutions by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2232/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (15 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on changes to be made in the Garda National Immigration Bureau to end long queues outside their office on Burgh Quay in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1406/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on changes made by her Department in relation to the granting of citizenship to children born here whose non-EEA-Swiss parents do not meet residency requirements, as highlighted by an Ombudsman's investigative report in 2014; her views on the Ombudsman's remit to be extended to include naturalisation and immigration sections...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: A number of the amendments – Nos. 2 to 15 and Nos. 17 and 18 - depend on whether we are to have a broad or narrow approach to the registration and regulation of lobbyists. At the moment, unfortunately, the Government’s approach is to take quite a narrow view of who can be lobbied and also who can do the lobbying. It will not capture in any way the real lobbying that goes on...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Minister for Defence the measures that are in place to ensure that the technologies developed following co-operation between the Defence Forces and companies and research institutions involved with the research and development of military capabilities are not used in the violation of human rights. [1222/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on a change to the State's policy on military neutrality in the White Paper on Defence; his further views that the United States use of Shannon Airport, the commitment to increase military capacity under the Lisbon treaty and support for French intervention in its former colonies indicate a move away from the policy on military neutrality; and if...