Parliamentary questions

Sporting Events

Eoghan Murphy

42. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed bid to host the Rugby World Cup. [54335/13]

Sports Funding

Eoghan Murphy

59. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding being provided to sports in 2013 and to compare this to recent years. [54336/13]

Property Taxation Administration

Eoghan Murphy

84. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if it is his intention to request the Revenue Commissioners to issue receipts to those paying the property tax in 2013 so as to ensure complete records for the purposes of future house sales and so on and that receipts are being issued for 2014. [54869/13]

Pension Provisions

Eoghan Murphy

171. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if it is her understanding that all the recommendations in the recent Government commissioned OECD report on the pension system here will be implemented, and whether or not she believes that the new pension changes regarding single and double insolvency issues need to be amended so that they are similar to those protections for pensioners and workers that currently exist in the UK. [54867/13]

Semi-State Bodies Funding

Eoghan Murphy

200. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of the liability assumed by the State on behalf of the ESB pension fund: and if this liability will be reflected in the national accounts or on the ESB’s balance sheet. [54868/13]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Eoghan Murphy

353. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing and arranging Health Service Executive physiotherapy appointments in the Pembroke-South Dock area. [54856/13]

Pensions Levy

Eoghan Murphy

159. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if the pension levy is tax-deductible for those working in the public service. [54224/13]

Property Taxation Administration

Eoghan Murphy

160. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding payment of the property tax. [54225/13]

School Enrolments

Eoghan Murphy

242. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the current policy on the use of catchment areas as a criterion for school enrolment; if schools are permitted to have an admission policy that does not include catchment area; and if he envisages that the new legislation on admissions will make catchment area a compulsory criterion in school admission policies, either ranked or not ranked. [54223/13]

School Enrolments

Eoghan Murphy

65. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the introduction of PPS numbers on enrolment forms for schools as part of his new reforms in the area of admissions so as to assist in managing supply and demand and in order to minimise the practice of place-blocking where parents place their children on multiple school enrolment lists. [53401/13]

Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit

Eoghan Murphy

130. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the way he intends to protect and improve the rights of renters of residential property. [53426/13]

Property Taxation Administration

Eoghan Murphy

61. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 12 November 2013, if he intends to make property tax paid in respect of a rented property deductible for income tax or corporation tax purposes. [52337/13]

IBRC Loans

Eoghan Murphy

62. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has approved the continuation of an existing contract or the signing of a new contract with the Russian asset recovery company A1 with regard to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loans to the Quinn family assets in Russia-Ukraine. [52338/13]

Mortgage Interest Relief Application

Eoghan Murphy

63. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered introducing mortgage interest relief temporarily for those on higher rate mortgages for example those on non-tracker mortgages paying above 1.5%, as an interim measure until the economy returns to higher growth levels. [52339/13]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Eoghan Murphy

64. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if it is his intention to advise Irish banks against any increase in interest rates in view of continuing reductions by the European Central Bank. [52340/13]

Tax Exemptions

Eoghan Murphy

31. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his views on allowing working parents to claim child care costs in full against their earned incomes for both tax and USC. [52047/13]

Tax Exemptions

Eoghan Murphy

32. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his views on allowing elderly persons to claim health care costs, including health insurance premiums, against their tax and USC. [52048/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Eoghan Murphy

64. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of running the seed and venture capital scheme to date and the cost of similar schemes. [52049/13]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Eoghan Murphy

65. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether it would be more efficient for the Government, from a time and cost point of view, to direct money ring-fenced for investment in small and medium enterprises, in co-operation with private funds, to new financing models such as peer-to-peer funding. [52050/13]

Social Welfare Fraud Data

Eoghan Murphy

73. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of calls and online reports that were received by her Department's anonymous reporting service in 2012 and 2013; and the number of these reports that resulted in action against an individual. [52045/13]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Eoghan Murphy

74. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection her Department's policy on dependants (details supplied). [52052/13]

Proposed Legislation

Eoghan Murphy

112. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a proposal (details supplied) on residential tenancy legislation. [52051/13]

Tobacco Control Measures

Eoghan Murphy

167. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he is considering, as part of the new plain packaging laws, excluding cigar and pipe tobaccos, as was the case with the display ban introduced for cigarettes. [52212/13]

Register of Electors

Eoghan Murphy

171. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on adding a section to the driver licence application process where persons could ask to be added to the electoral register, if they so wished. [52046/13]

Credit Unions Restructuring

Eoghan Murphy

158. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of transferring the accounts and systems from Newbridge Credit Union to PTSB; if this figure is in the region of €4 million; and the way this amount was arrived at. [50240/13]

Budget Measures

Eoghan Murphy

159. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 5 November 2013, if he will provide the forecasting data referred to, regarding the modelling of household disposable income in aggregate terms and projections for the way this income is allocated between spending and savings, as well as the impact of these decisions on tax revenue and employment, where disposable income of €4 billion in aggregate terms was realised in the economy. [50241/13]

Site Acquisitions

Eoghan Murphy

214. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in respect of his Department's efforts to secure a location for a premises of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50178/13]

Semi-State Bodies Dividends

Eoghan Murphy

281. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 12 November 2013, in respect of the NewERA strategy, if he has devised a strategy for the payment of dividends by State-owned companies to the Exchequer for the next five years. [50199/13]

HSE Staff Responsibilities

Eoghan Murphy

584. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if the chief executive officers of individual hospitals or areas of the health service are responsible for their performance regarding budgeting and so on; and if so to whom are they responsible. [50200/13]

Property Taxation Administration

Eoghan Murphy

64. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding payment of the property tax where a house is sold in 2013, but the contract is not finalised before 1 November 2013, thereby making the vendor liable for the charge in 2014 although he would no longer own or occupy the property in that tax year; if the vendor is entitled to a refund from the Revenue Commissioners in any circumstance; and if the purchaser is entitled to a refund from the Revenue Commissioners where the tax for 2014 formed part of the sale agreement on the understanding at the time that there was a liability on the property, but which is no longer the case following recent clarification from the Revenue Commissioners regarding exemptions for non-first-time buyers. [49753/13]

Election Monitoring Missions

Eoghan Murphy

51. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 8 October, if he will publish a new roster in 2014; if the current roster will be amended in any way before a new roster is brought in; if any additions can be made to the existing roster; and if not what those persons interested in participating in observation missions should do in the interim. [47783/13]

Property Taxation Collection

Eoghan Murphy

71. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the reason those paying the property tax for 2014 using a credit or debit card cannot pay the tax in the year in which it is due; and if he will consider extending the deadline for such payments to the end of January 2014 or later. [47786/13]

VAT Rate Reductions

Eoghan Murphy

72. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the reduced 9% VAT rate to the entertainment industry. [47787/13]

VAT Payments

Eoghan Murphy

73. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a situation regarding a decision by the Revenue Commissioners on the levying of VAT retrospectively (details supplied). [47790/13]

Semi-State Bodies Dividends

Eoghan Murphy

244. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in respect of the NewEra strategy, if he has devised a strategy for the payment of dividends by State-owned companies to the Exchequer for the next five years. [47785/13]

Waste Management Regulations

Eoghan Murphy

268. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a review, initiated by his Department in June 2012, of the producer responsibility initiative model in Ireland; when this review will be complete; and when he will be in a position to publish the review in full. [47791/13]

Waste Management Regulations

Eoghan Murphy

269. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding producer responsibility initiatives here and the various waste streams which are covered by producer responsibility initiatives. [47792/13]

Waste Management Regulations

Eoghan Murphy

270. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the current number and identity of approved producer responsibility initiatives under the Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations 2007, S.I. No 798 of 2007; the date such approval commenced; the date and term of any extensions to the schemes; the process which was undertaken for the approval of such schemes; and if such approval is contingent upon or will be delayed until the outcome of the review of the producer responsibility initiative model in Ireland. [47793/13]

Waste Management Regulations

Eoghan Murphy

271. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the current number and identity of applications to his Department for approval to operate a producer responsibility initiative under the Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations 2007, S.I. No 798 of 2007; the process which will be undertaken in such an approval process; and if such approval is contingent upon or will be delayed until the outcome of the review of the producer responsibility initiative model in Ireland. [47794/13]

Prison Regulations

Eoghan Murphy

306. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if prisoners are permitted to own mobile phones; if not, whether he believes that many do possess such items when this is not permissible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47789/13]

Hospital Staff Issues

Eoghan Murphy

429. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if the chief executive officers of individual hospitals or areas of the health service are responsible to Oireachtas committees for their performance regarding budgeting and so on. [47784/13]

Medical Card Eligibility

Eoghan Murphy

430. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if those who receive a UK pension but are living here are automatically entitled to a medical card. [47788/13]

City Bikes Scheme

Eoghan Murphy

21. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the extension of the city bikes schemes to other cities outside Dublin. [46969/13]

The Gathering Initiatives

Eoghan Murphy

28. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the work his Department and the agencies under his aegis are carrying out in relation to building on the legacy of The Gathering. [46968/13]

Tax Code

Eoghan Murphy

134. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the reason a self-employed person pays more income tax than a PAYE earner when the Government is trying to incentivise entrepreneurial activity. [46000/13]

Tax Code

Eoghan Murphy

135. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he is considering making a distinction in the capital gains tax regime to incentivise entrepreneurial activity by way of returns to investors versus returns from investment in non-productive speculative activity. [46001/13]

Tax Code

Eoghan Murphy

136. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether the EIIS is too complicated and if he will provide an update on the changes that are planned to improve take-up of this scheme in 2014; and the way its effectiveness is to be measured throughout the year. [46002/13]

Tax Code

Eoghan Murphy

137. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the way planned changes to the capital gains tax regime for 2014 in terms of entrepreneurial relief are to be monitored over the course of 2014 in terms of their effectiveness. [46003/13]

Tax Code

Eoghan Murphy

138. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered adapting the EIIS to make it more competitive similar to the EIS scheme in the UK. [46004/13]

Budget Measures

Eoghan Murphy

178. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if his Department conducts modelling to forecast the way potential increases in a person's disposable income might be distributed within the economy in the present climate; for example if €4 billion was to be realised in the wider economy by way of abolition of the USC, the way this might impact upon the economy in terms of the percentage going into savings, debt repayments, the purchase of goods and services and so on; and the way this might translate in terms of additional VAT receipts, greater activity in the domestic economy and job creation in small and medium enterprises. [46153/13]