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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have had sanctions imposed on their social protection payments in the past five years to date in 2017; the number of persons disqualified from receiving payments for the same period of time, by payment and by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the cost benefit analysis regarding the outsourcing of the JobPath programme will be published; if she has given consideration to keeping the scheme in-house rather than outsourcing it to a private company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50350/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the costs associated with the introduction of the public services card scheme during 2017, including the staff hours involved and the costs of postage to persons notifying them to obtain a card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50634/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Communications (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if transmissions and or communications between her Department's servers to local office computers are transmitted over HTTP or HTTPS; if transmissions and or communications between her local offices are transmitted over HTTP or HTTPS; the date on which the certificate was applied to allow secure transmissions; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have had their social welfare allowances or services withdrawn due to the fact they did not have or refused to apply for a public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50632/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been sanctioned for refusing to sign a personal progression plan with companies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50633/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the obtaining of data through SAFE 2 and the public services card is fully compliant with the general data protection regulation law including ensuring that ownership of the data ultimately rests with the persons rather than her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50635/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she issued a communication to An Post requesting that presentation of public services cards be made mandatory for receipt of any social protection payment; the date on which this communication was issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50636/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. It is very useful to hear different perspectives. A statement was made that Irish people would be horrified by the use of the term "undesirable pregnancy". We are used to the term "crisis pregnancy". This is simply a language issue and I am not arrogant enough to presume to speak for the entire Irish nation. Opinions polls certainly show a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that and there is a very clear difference between the position described and what happens here. The majority of abortions in the Netherlands take place in abortion clinics. In hindsight, does this create problems? We have heard from psychologists about stigma and protests outside abortion clinics. Do clinics in the Netherlands attract protests? Would it be better to embed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That is fine; I just wondered about that. We spoke yesterday with witnesses from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. Essentially, they said that even though there is a regime in place and lots of centres available to people, women are availing of abortion medication online. Is there any experience of that in the Netherlands?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will be as quick as I can. I remember reading Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll's report. Page 11 jumped out at me. It says that it would be much easier to look at the task of reopening six stations if the Garda were not confined to the criteria. I am paraphrasing what was written. Does the assistant commissioner recall that?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: This morning we heard that it is not just a question of opening a building. There are resource implications once the building is open. If one asks a question about resourcing one would be told quickly that the Minster has no function in that and that it is the function of the Garda Commissioner. The criteria that was set here pretty much determined the resource allocation for the stations...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The acting Commissioner had the function of allocating the resources. We are told that all the time. It is a big problem. In my area, which is also Deputy Cassells's area, there is the lowest ratio of gardaí to population. I call the policing plan that is published every year a work of fiction because although there is the idea that criteria change all time, it does not consider...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The census of population is a pretty solid basis. It was in the gift of the acting Commissioner to question the criteria and say this is not the basis we should be going on. He has accepted that he could have done that. Why was it not done?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The acting Commissioner went along with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: When one wants to find the desired outcome of an action and there is an investigation or inquiry going on one reads the terms of reference. The terms of reference in this case were so specific that it was hard to see a situation other than Stepaside standing out to be reopened. It was a predetermined outcome. The report shows that it met the criteria that were set.

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The criteria were written for an outcome. That is how it looks to me. It is not to say that if it was considered on an even keel, without criteria, it might not have made the cut but there were very determined criteria. When I read that report I said it was written for that outcome.

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is only a pilot but it happens to be one that very nicely dovetails with the desired outcome for a particular Deputy in the programme for Government. Many of us are concluding that it was a political decision.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will continue with the Dromard farm issue and OPW oversight. The Comptroller and Auditor General's narrative in the document is interesting. There is mention of a centre of excellence because Garda numbers were going to increase. The specification was 15 to 25 acres and Dromard farm is way above what was outlined at that stage. There were expressions of interest and then there was a...