Results 101-120 of 10,442 for speaker:Paul Murphy

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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 351. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that a judge (details supplied) in the High Court in August 2020 criticised her Department for not implementing an aspect of the State's refugee regime when an Act stated the Minister ''shall'' establish a board, but did not, saying it was a way of undermining the rule of law ''to commence the legislation, but...

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

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners certified for each prison in the most recent Rule 18 certificates issued before this date to each Governor; and how many certificates have been issued since 20 June 2020. [24083/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if each of the current Rule 18 certificates for all prisons stated capacity is in excess of the minimum standard recommended by European Prison Rules; and if so, by how much. [24084/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a governor of a prison is obliged to accept prisoners over the number certified by Rule 18 certificate or over the number taking into account the European Prison Rules; and if the governor accepts prisoners over the numbers stated, if the governor is personally liable for a litigation claim as a result of overcrowding in...

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

Paul Murphy: 356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a governor of a prison accepts prisoners over the number recommended by European Prison Rules in respect of accommodation in that prison, whether certified by a current Rule 18 certificate or not, the governor is personally liable for a litigation claim as a result of overcrowding in that prison. [24086/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when Horse Racing Ireland is due back in the Houses of the Oireachtas to discuss the overspend at the Curragh Racecourse. [24095/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 370. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is aware of the conditions of the dogs being held in a location (details supplied); if there are inspections held to ensure the welfare of the dogs regularly or if his Department relies entirely on the organisation; if all the organisation’s pounds are compliant with public procurement procedure; and who...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Employment Rights (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he supports the proposal for pregnant women who become sick while pregnant to be allowed to take sick leave and defer their maternity leave; and if he will bring forward legislation to bring this into effect. [23991/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 496. To ask the Minister for Health the implications of an item being high tech on the drug payment scheme; and how an item can be changed to the regular drug payment scheme from high tech. [24102/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (23 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: The people of Tallaght are up in arms about the plan to close the post office in the Square, Tallaght, to privatise it and to reopen a smaller post office with fewer services in a different location. Almost 2,000 people have signed a petition that was delivered to the GPO last week, where An Post informed the campaigners that it intends to proceed. I have been doing a lot of work on this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (23 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (23 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: I agree entirely. A very high proportion of those who are signing the petition or who are getting involved in the campaign are older people. It is a community focal point for many people who go to the post office on a weekly basis to get their bits and pieces done, and to meet and chat with people. Again, everyone speaks so highly of those workers, who are now being put in a very difficult...