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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I hope not because in that case there would be no change.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I want to get some of the detail as it would be easier than submitting a parliamentary question. The basis for the distribution of the fund, albeit there have been some changes, is the needs and resources model. There is no factoring in of increases in population. By my reckoning, in the main, it is based on what happened previously. That means we are using the population in 1996 as the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is just the population about which I am talking. I am familiar with what happened at that time. In the needs and resources model what a local authority had at a point in time was counted and it was resourced. If it had six swimming pools, one received funding to ensure it could continue to have six swimming pools. If it did not have any swimming pool, it was not factored in as a need....

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I have tracked its evolution and it was modest enough. There were changes and an elaborate gathering of information in order to make them. However, it did not fundamentally shift things like staffing and capital funding backed up for libraries and so on. It did not change very much. I take as an example County Meath and use the 1996 population figures, the ones I have in front of me. In...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: There may be but in the main, one finds that if one puts some areas at the top and some at the bottom, the common denominator will be that the areas that have a rapid and sustained population growth will tend to be the ones with a lower ratio of staff. I was in a local authority when the crash happened and essentially all of the temporary staff were the first to go. It is a much more...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That is totally separate. Why would it appear in this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: What I did note is that while the commercial rates have not been increasing at budget time, the overall take from commercial rates as a proportion of local government funding has been increasing quite significantly. It actually made up a significantly bigger chunk in 2016 than it did in 2009, for example, and the big difference is the general purpose grant had shrunk and local property tax...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Is that coming from a growing sector?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (28 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the conclusions from a report that took into consideration a small cohort of workers (details supplied) working beyond 65 years of age in relation to the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10179/19]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We know this emergency legislation is very much of a technical nature. As we debate it, the ground is shifting in the House of Commons and, hopefully, we will never have to use this legislation. I noted the Tánaiste's comments about the value of a united front across all of the political divide. While I agree with him on that, and agree most Irish people feel a sense of belonging to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Land Commission (27 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Land Commission records have been digitised to date; if so, the number that have been; his plans to digitise the entire records collection in order to preserve it for the longer term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9924/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (27 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding made available to date for the decade of centenaries programme; the amount that will be allocated and-or provided for in the remaining years; and if supplementary funds will be made available to the National Archive in the context of the large number of records it received on 1 February 2019 and in view of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to fill the shortfall in classroom spaces for children with special needs including autism at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare before the new school year 2019/2020; the way in which he further plans to provide an adequate number of school spaces to meet the needs of schoolchildren with special needs in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Supported Residential Accommodation Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding has been refused for the provision of a supported housing solution in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the solution was recommended in 2008 and the person has been waiting for approval of funding; the options available for the care of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8978/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions the National Civil Aviation Security Committee has met in the past five years to date; if it has identified new risks at airports in that time; the progress made to date in mitigating those risks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9273/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 540. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rule or directive under which airport security officers have the authority to stop and search Revenue Commissioners enforcement officers at Dublin Airport; the date on which this practice began; the body that has directed these measures be undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9274/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Expenditure (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 548. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated for sustainable transport measures in 2019 by each heading; the funding code of his Department for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9409/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Expenditure (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 549. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding and-or grants available in 2019 and 2020 for the provision of new cycleways, pedestrian ways, maintenance and or upgrade of existing cycle and walk ways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9414/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Expenditure (26 Feb 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding under the B8 sustainable transport code by its various subheads for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9667/19]