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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The mix of what is inspected is incredibly important. If I am correct, inspections were carried out on the estates that will ultimately end up as the responsibility of the local authority, but apartment blocks were not in that category. One will see where I am coming from. There would be a higher incidence of apartments not being inspected than houses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Building Regulations: Discussion (16 Oct 2012)

Catherine Murphy: How does the BRAB set the guidelines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Interim Report on National Climate Change Policy: Discussion with NESC (23 Oct 2012)

Catherine Murphy: There is an opportunity. We have just considered the report of the credit union movement on people's concerns about the cost of energy. We are acutely aware that there is an issue at a household level. It is essential that we link energy security and climate change by way of legislation and achieve returns by meeting our targets. We will discuss local government later. Some London...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Interim Report on National Climate Change Policy: Discussion with NESC (23 Oct 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Are there concerns in this regard and is it a matter that needs to be addressed prior to the enactment of legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Comprehensive Action Programme for the Reform of Local Government: Discussion (23 Oct 2012)

Catherine Murphy: In his presentation, Mr. Dowling stated that structures have changed little since Victorian times. When considering the county council system and the county being selected as the core, it does not appear to me that anything much has altered. While the area committees have been an improvement, much of what happened at town council level has not been a duplication. Instead, there has been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Comprehensive Action Programme for the Reform of Local Government: Discussion (23 Oct 2012)

Catherine Murphy: I will but first I was obliged to explain this aspect could be lost. I consider it to be a strength of the Irish community system, never mind the local government system. It is a paradox to talk about the ratio of county councillors to members of the population, while at the same time an unelected regional authority is proposed with two for everyone in the audience. It seems a crazy way of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Comprehensive Action Programme for the Reform of Local Government: Discussion (23 Oct 2012)

Catherine Murphy: What about staffing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Preservation of Historic Buildings: Discussion (8 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The Venice Charter refers to context. The curtilage of sites is protected. The curtilage of this site is within the bounds of the buildings in Moore Street rather than the battlefield site. The context, however, is wider than the curtilage that is protected. There is no doubt about the authenticity of the site. Professor Kealy said work should be capable of being reversed. Does that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
(13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: In regard to the rent supplement scheme and the changeover next year to the rent assistance scheme to be administered by local authorities, is it intended that it will still be a rent assistance scheme or to accelerate the rental accommodation scheme? I do not need to go into the detail on the differences. As the scheme will require significant additional administration, is it intended to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
(13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Has the local authority for the pilot scheme been selected yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
(13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It will not be Kildare. For what it is worth, the Department would not be able to afford it because rent assistance is way out of sync with even what is being paid on the rental accommodation scheme. However, I would like to see Kildare or a similar area being used as the pilot because that would provide a robust test given that there are particular problems such as that rents are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
(13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister could get some of the State agencies to come up with a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
(13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: First, it is clear that the local government fund has been decimated in the past four years and that we are down to the bone at this stage. The flawed needs and resources model was used to create a base line for the needs of people. Has a base line been determined by the Department on what local authorities require? Clearly, issues such as non-discretionary pay would have to be included in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
(13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: -----before staffing is examined again? In some areas there is adequate staff while in others there is not and therefore doing something not in a targeted way will cause further problems.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
(13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Is there modelling taking place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Essentially, they were not given ten days because the report was in July. They gave the Minister the run around until we had that Dáil debate and the Minister specified-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: It has been specified that they were given a limit of ten days to come back. I acknowledge that it is their issue but the Minister has the power to put that levy scheme together. A stick needs to be waved at this stage because if I were in one of the 850 houses that are falling down I would want to know how the scheme will be funded, what the remediation process will be, how testing will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Is the Minister sure it will only take a few days? Can he give guarantees?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Hardly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Report of Pyrite Panel: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (13 Nov 2012)

Catherine Murphy: Does that mean the end of the week is the Minister's deadline?

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