Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]