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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: There were procurement issues when the DIT witnesses were in front of us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can I just clarify something on that? The same thing is happening with local authorities throughout the country. Money is deducted for pensions. While this used to be retained locally, it is now submitted centrally. Where does the liability for the payment of pensions fall?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: And then payment of the pension is funded centrally.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that the Comptroller and Auditor General is completing a report on the Kildare and Wicklow ETB.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Certainly we should try to have the meeting before the end of the year because it is a very big-ticket item in terms of money.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost per unit to local authorities of refurbishing and or retrofitting existing units in each of the past five years for which figures are available by county; the cost per unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39943/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (21 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annualised cost of the average monthly rent paid to landlords under the HAP scheme in each of the years since the inception of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39962/17]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Article 43 of the Constitution guarantees that the State shall pass no laws attempting to abolish the right to private ownership. However, the same article also recognises that such rights of private ownership ought to be regulated by the principles of social justice and may, as occasion requires, delimit by law the right to private ownership if it comes to be at odds with the common good....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Ms Justice Laffoy for her work, the work of her team and that of the assembly as well as for all the reading material she gave us to absorb over the summer. It was very helpful. Some questions have been asked already and answered satisfactorily so I will try to confine myself to just one or two. In her opening statement, Ms Justice Laffoy said that, in an additional question on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. However, essentially health would have been to the fore.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Data (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of local property tax, LPT, which is deferred on the basis of inability to pay by local authority; the total income from interest in 2015, 2016 and 2017 that arises from deferred LPT; the rate of interest applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39368/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on her engagement with a group (details supplied) in regard to a care facility in County Cork; her plans to meet the group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39438/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for limiting the terms of the mortgage to rent scheme to only those persons that qualify for social housing; his plans to extend the scheme in order that persons with distressed mortgages may qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 755. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that are being provided to local authorities to find replacement housing for tenants under the rental accommodation scheme in circumstances in which landlords withdraw from the scheme due to limits of the rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers available to local authorities to continue to support housing under the rental accommodation scheme in rent reviews within rent pressure zones which result in significant differences with open market rent prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39201/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the data which was used in arriving at the baseline for LPT in 2014; when the 2014 baseline was amended in 2017; the way in which the changes were calculated; the further calculation being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39320/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board Data (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cases undertaken by the RTB in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016; the number of those cases resolved by mediation; the number resolved by tribunals; the number of enforcement actions; the number of cases which were referred to the courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39362/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (20 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 764. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific allocation of funding for homelessness services by local authority; the amount self-funded by each local authority; the personnel dedicated to homelessness services by local authority; the changes which have occurred in each year since 2014; the councils which are grouped in regional bands; and if he will make a...