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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: One of the key issues for me is that people will have availability of water without necessarily having to pay for it. Obviously, there would be a limit on that, which is what I was attempting to do. It is difficult to deal with these two pieces of legislation separately because one is judging one piece without having the detail of the other. This has been mentioned by others here today....

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I am not talking about poverty proofing but about changing a culture. Clearly, I would be concerned about low-income families. We keep taking money out of the pockets of a lot of these families. This is an environmental issue. It is about changing a culture and people being very careful about their water usage. This is not about poverty proofing. The idea of a free allowance is to allow...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I refer to the relationship between the roads authority and Irish Water when it is established. I ask whether licences will be required and the arrangements for the restoration of road surfaces. Other costs will be incurred if the work is not carried out correctly, as well as great frustrations.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The National Roads Authority will not make the final decision; that will be a decision for the local authorities with regard to most of the roads. Houses will not generally be constructed along national primary routes. This will be an additional oversight responsibility for local authorities which may result in a resourcing issue. In many cases because of the recruitment embargo there is a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I would just like to indicate that Deputy Tom Fleming tabled amendment No. 11 in my name.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: On the section, the 1983 Act introduced water services; it was the service charges. The 1997 Act discontinued those charges. Is that correct?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of what it did, the 1983 Act introduced service charges as a water and bin collection charge.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The 1997 Act abolished those.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: If we agree with this measure, therefore, we are-----

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Catherine Murphy: An individualised allowance would be quite important. I agree with the thrust of what is being proposed by Deputy Stanley but there will be situations in which there is an exceptional need for water supply - for example, for people on kidney dialysis and for children with disabilities. It cannot be about people going around scrounging for extra water supply. As was said earlier, we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion with Irish National Flood Forum (12 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I represent Kildare North, where there has been extensive flooding in places such as Celbridge, Leixlip, Maynooth, Johnston, Kill, Straffan and Sallins. These locations featured in news items over the past ten or 12 years. There was footage of an individual in a rowing boat in a housing estate in the town of Celbridge. This is crazy stuff. The local authority and OPW response can be good...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I am not opposing the Government's amendment but I am opposing the section. The whole idea in 2008 was to change the culture whereby people who bought more fuel-efficient cars were rewarded through the tax code. The other aspect of this to which I wish to draw attention is the issue of the motor tax fund. Last week when we were debating this issue, the Minister for the Environment,...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister of State referred in his reply to the local government fund. Since 2009, a total of €534 million has been withdrawn from the local government fund when €150 million coming out of the motor tax fund this year, is included. The property tax will bring in €500 million at best. Therefore, we will not see an increase in the services. There needs to be a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Section 6 was included in the legislation last year. Obviously it is being done in a transparent way in that the Minister of State is telling us that he is hijacking this money from the Local Government Fund. This proposed amendment is not about motor tax revenue, rather it is about that revenue with part of it being used to pay off the national debt. That is the reality of it. I want to...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister of State referred to having no choice. Politics is all about choices, those the Government decides to make. The Minister of State has come to the conclusion there is no other choice but I believe there is a different range of choices.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Insurance Federation (19 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: Most floods happen because following a lot of rain, there is an inadequate means of getting rid of the water quickly so. Mr. Thompson has said the federation meets the OPW and is trying to understand its processes. Getting a scheme up and running is a tall order because one goes through a painstaking process in allocating public funds. What seems to be happening is that those living...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Insurance Federation (19 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I have never come across it, not once.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Insurance Federation (19 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: They do not ask people that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Insurance Federation (19 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to return to my question on the 500 m proximity to water. Insurance companies ask people whether they are within 500 m and immediately give a quote or refuse insurance. They never ask whether the premises is defended and they do not ask if there is evidence of flooding in the past. Most of the mitigation measures are on the perimeter of a review except where there is attenuation and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Irish Insurance Federation (19 Mar 2013)

Catherine Murphy: I have a question on the information provided by the federation to insurance companies. Does it compile a blacklist?