Results 61-80 of 10,276 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter in relation to the Protected Disclosures Amendment Act 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will agree to implement a pay increase for bus escorts for special schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19601/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new agency (details supplied) will also deal with the issue of sexual abuse of young males and how that affects them, and by implication their partners, in later life, and the need for support for such survivors and their partners; if the agencies board members will undergo specific training about sexual abuse of young...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of roads policing vehicles; and the number equipped with technology in ANPR and interconnection with Garda mobility. [19766/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds in the racing dog pool as recorded on the race management system for each month in 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 223. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if denying healthcare to a specific group as suggested in a recent article (details supplied) would be in line with anti-discrimination rights such as represented in the Equal Status Act 2000-2018 (details supplied). [19594/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 250. To ask the Minister for Health to commit to ensuring that all international evidence and guidelines are reviewed in the development of evidence-based guidelines and a model of care for transgender services for young people and adults in Ireland, and that this will also include published criticisms of the Cass review. [19592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 251. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is co-developing a new model of care for transgender healthcare, as per a recent article. [19593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Gender Service believes emergence of gender issues “very suddenly and dramatically”, as mentioned in a recent radio interview by its staff (details supplied), is due to rapid onset gender dysphoria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19595/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the evidence backing a statement by National Gender Service staff in a recent radio interview (details supplied) that neurodivergent people’s neurobiological development is delayed by a decade. [19596/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1290 of 9 April 2024, that given the response stated there is no clear evidence, if he will commit to a correction being issued for the statements made on the radio which had indicated otherwise. [19597/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government commits to a referendum on housing. The Taoiseach's predecessor, Leo Varadkar, confirmed last August that "we should have an amendment to our Constitution to establish a right to housing". The Minister for housing promised a referendum in 2023 and yet the Taoiseach has told us now that no firm decision has been made on any referendums. I suspect this Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: There is a serious issue with accountability regarding deaths related to the Garda. A reply to a previous parliamentary question stated that between 2007 and 2021 there were 228 fatal incidents either in or shortly after Garda custody. They were referred to GSOC. In 2005 Terrence Wheelock went out to buy a paintbrush. He was arrested by the Garda. He was brought to Store Street Garda...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [17963/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: As they are UN-authorised, they meet the triple lock.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: They meet the triple lock. They achieve the triple lock.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Government has been engaged in a war on what is left of neutrality since Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It has slightly changed tack in the course of that. It started out with a full-frontal attack, saying we need to have a discussion about neutrality, that it was a policy matter and it could be changed at any time. It met the reality of public opinion, which did not shift despite a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I could have written the conclusions in advance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: They were pretty obvious.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent visit to Paris. [15149/24]