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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration given to the impact on pupils that are not accommodated in the nearest school, such as a school (details supplied); if the time and expense involved for students and parents forms a part of the analysis when consideration is given to extra classrooms when the numbers merit this; if it is necessary to plan places at an earlier...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date on replacing the Communications Retention of Data Act 2011; if it will be assigned to the relevant Oireachtas committee for pre legislative scrutiny; if the European Court of Justice has set a deadline for a new Bill to be enacted in view of the fact that without new legislation it may impact on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which annual policy plans are to be constructed in the absence of CSO figures on crime statistics; the data that will replace these statistics; the interaction he has had with the CSO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4272/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 350. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include chiropractors in new guidelines for X-ray referral; his further plans to extend and or re-open the consultation phase regarding the new guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3943/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Collection (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 501 of 23 January 2018, the amount of motor tax collected in each of the years 2015 to 2017 by county, in tabular form; the way in which the funds collected are redistributed; the way in which motor tax receipts are spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4355/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 548. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the road category and road mileage each local authority is responsible for (details supplied); the allowance made for road usage in respect of road deterioration; the areas in which such allowances are applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4419/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy regarding the issuing of the public services card and persons who are adopted (details supplied); if only certain information is inscribed on the card; if information regarding a person's adoption history or status is inscribed or encoded on the card; if a person has ever been refused a card based on his or her...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services Provision (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the changes planned in respect to the amalgamation of community welfare services in the Dunboyne and Maynooth areas; if changes are proposed, the details of same; the capacity considerations that have occurred in the context of resourcing such changes; the consideration being given to access by way of public...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fines Data (30 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount collected in parking fines in 2016 and 2017 by local authority and municipality in tabular form; the way in which moneys collected regarding parking fines is used and-or distributed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4075/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Is the commission examining other cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Two similar cases were identified in the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: One of our concerns related to how the report was processed, the relationship between the Health Service Executive and Deloitte and whether the report was influenced by engagements between the HSE and Deloitte or was genuinely independent. According to the correspondence, a request was made to tone down certain aspects of the report. The purpose of commissioning an independent report is to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: My concern is whether the report fully reflects the position. While I will not discuss in detail individual items of correspondence, one of them indicates there are two similar cases in litigation. As we discussed last week, the HSE is moving towards an open disclosure approach. I do not know if this issue falls into that category. It is frustrating that money that could be spent on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The reference for the correspondence in question is PAC 32R 986.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I agree with Deputy Cullinane's comments about the response the committee received, especially from the Department in question. The education sector requires significant investment. This is a potential source of investment. These universities and institutes of technology are a research and development tool but there is a cost to that research and development, in the same way there is a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I remember having an engagement with the guy from the HEA on whether it was likely that third level institutions would go on the national balance sheet. He said it had been looked at several times, that it had not happened to date and that, from memory - I could be wrong - there was not an expectation that it would happen. If it does, it obviously brings into sharp focus the very first item...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, but would their assets, and how does one keep a balance there? For example-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I know, but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Then it impacts on our ability to borrow for a whole number of things.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: National Property Revaluation Programme (25 Jan 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. It strikes me that Richard Griffith did a fantastic job in being able to value every house, every piece of farmland and every business in 12 years between 1848 and 1860. I might be slightly wrong on that. What a remarkable job to do setting out on a horse, and here we are using valuations from 1988. It seems extraordinary, and that was an original valuation...