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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to grant an amnesty to all those in the asylum system for a period of four years or more. [7319/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (13 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied). [7312/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the National Roads Authority to examine the bend in the road on the N11 as it enters Donnybrook to see what measures can be put in place to reduce the speed of vehicles as they come through this bend and enter Donnybrook village. [7310/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide emergency funding for raised traffic lights on the N11 at the existing pedestrian crossing by Leinster’s Donnybrook rugby grounds in view of the speed at which vehicles approach this pedestrian crossing from the dual carriageway and the high number of pedestrians crossing at this point. [7311/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to introduce regulations permitting local authorities to introduce by-laws that would designate electric vehicle charging points on public roads as electric vehicle parking only, as well as permitting local authorities to assign dedicated public parking spaces as car club only spaces. [7314/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority has completed its consideration and approval of the detailed designs for the S2S; and, if not, when same is expected to occur. [7317/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Will the Comptroller and Auditor General prepare something for the meeting? Reference is made in the note to a report done in 2009. Is there a follow-up to this?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (12 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is considering incentivising retraining in certain areas, for example technology, by allowing persons taking part in such courses to maintain their jobseeker's benefit so they can afford to learn the necessary skills. [7169/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The second part of my question was whether the borrower has a choice. If I am the borrower and see that 50 people have signed up to lend to me, but I recognise ten of them and they are about to get pushed out, can I choose to include them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: It is the rate that is set.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I have a final question. When we raised this in the Dáil before, the line that came back from the Government was that generally speaking it is waiting to see peer to peer financing or crowdfunding being established in other markets before we would do it here. Is it Mr. O'Mahony's view that it is established now? He cited figures from the UK along with some of the research points. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: What list of activities could the Government do to help peer to peer financing grow in the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: May I clarify that? The Funding Circle is an interesting example and a good way of how a government can help. It is not interfering with the market rate at all. The market rate gets set by private lenders. When it comes in, it makes the return they make as well. So it is investing with the expectation of making a return. The only potential risk would be to look at the default rate,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: What kind of money are they putting in in the UK?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Did the government give money to Funding Circle or to someone else to act on their behalf through Funding Circle? What was the set-up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to attend today. I am not a member of this committee but I wanted to come in because I am familiar with both LinkedFinance and Greenaer. I wish to declare an interest in that I am a lender, or have tried to be a lender, on the site. I opened an account about eight months ago after one of my meetings with Mr. O'Mahony, to try to see how the website...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 4 February 2014, the reason the four criteria carried equal weighting when one criteria, for example experience, is vastly more important than language skills as such supports are generally provided in-country. [6904/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the principles of the cycle to work scheme to other activity areas, for example, gym membership, to promote healthier lifestyles among the general population. [6547/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Yield (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of excise returns by category and by month from January 2012 to January 2014. [6552/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Seizures (11 Feb 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the number of cigarette and tobacco seizures in each month since January 2013; the amount of cigarettes and tobacco seized in each month since January 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6553/14]