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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to ensure that there are sufficient school places for every child who needs one in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23915/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to ensure that there are sufficient secondary school places for every child who needs one in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23912/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action she will take to fill vacant teaching posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23913/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to make sufficient resources available in schools for children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23916/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action she will take to make primary and secondary education genuinely free in light of the continuing cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23914/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the delays experienced by 15B bus route users on 17 May (details supplied); if he will provide an explanation as to the reason there was not one 15b in two hours but five 15 As; and what is Dublin Bus's strategy to deal with accidents when they occur. [24094/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the abrupt implementation of substantial salary hikes for employment permits (details supplied) without adequate transitional measures for existing permit holders has plunged them into upheaval and despair, given that employers may not accommodate these increases, numerous families face the devastating prospect...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been any purchases of tenant in situ properties where there were issues of pyrite since the scheme commenced. [24105/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has been contacted by Fingal County Council to request delegate sanction to purchase properties for applications that have been refused under the tenant in situ scheme (details supplied). [24106/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has used delegate sanction to allow the council to purchase properties that had some repairs. [24107/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant in situ applications that were purchased, refused and withdrawn since the commencement of this scheme; and if, in the interest of transparency, he will compile this, as the local authorities are not providing this detailed information. [24108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the negative impact that not being able to work or engage in any business, trade or profession is having on stamp 3 holders; if she will request her Department to review a document (details supplied); her views on whether it would help to provide to people on general employment permits the same rights as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of different cell or room types of accommodation for prisoners, by metric size, not including the sanitary annex, for all prisons and open centres in the prison estate, by individual prison (details supplied). [24074/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the misleading figures supplied to the CPT in 2019 regarding capacity and inform the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the amendment. [24075/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capacity for the total prison estate, having exact regard to the minimum recommendations of the European Prison Rules, not the IPS's calculation based on 'the bed capacity refers to the maximum number of beds which can be present/operational in a prison at any one time'. [24076/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in light of the then acting Minister for Justice’s direction to the Department of Justice in May 2023 to fast track the 39-year old recommendation of the 1/3rd Remission Regulation, and the current Minister's rescinding of such direction two weeks later, if she will now enact the regulation and reduce the 'record...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to implement the 1/3rd Remission Regulation first recommended by the Whitaker Report in 1985, and again by the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality Report on Penal Reform 2013 and Strategic Review Group Final Report 2014, and which the present Taoiseach directed her Department to fast track in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she has taken to quell a riot or serious violence in Mountjoy Prison or other prisons as a result of overcrowding, such as occurred under her watch in Dublin in 2023; and how long it would take to implement such steps from the start of the outbreak. [24078/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware the director general of the Irish Prison Service declared in March 2020 that the 'murderers, sex offenders and gang-land criminals' would not receive temporary release; if this is contrary to legislation currently in force before the introduction of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that the director general of the Irish Prison Service, who administers the remission regime on behalf of the Minister, informed the then-Minister in May 2023 that those convicted of 'domestic, sexual or gender-based offences' would not receive remission; if she is in agreement with this; if this is contrary to...