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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (13 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 366. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an assurance will be provided that, should the Government introduce a tax for funding RTÉ, those who currently have a free TV licence will not be expected to pay this tax; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6199/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (13 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the criticisms and opposition to Waterways Ireland's proposed by-law changes; how these criticisms will be considered to update this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6183/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the way that local authorities allocate the number of social housings to be built for disability accessible housing; where the figures come from to support the number of houses to be built or renovated to meet the need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6298/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (13 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 522. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to funding for services (details supplied) if he will ensure that a tangible and fully sanctioned budget proposal to address the accumulated deficit and financial sustainability requirements is presented by the HSE no later than 8 February 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6303/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Priorities (13 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the plan for Dublin to become an "autism and neurodiverse friendly" city, if he is aware that changes in relation to things like unpredictable public transport, where bus numbers change when shifting from public to private ownership, routes drop of the digital display unexpectedly, and timetables...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in view of the withdrawal of a crèche (details supplied) in Ballycullen from the core funding scheme, and resultant significant increases in fees for parents, the action he intends to take to ensure that affordable childcare is available in the area. [6578/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, a house in Leixlip was burned down after false rumours circulated suggesting that it was going to be used for people seeking asylum. Four days ago, the old Crooksling nursing home in Brittas was burned down. On New Year's Eve, the old Shipwright Pub in Ringsend was burned down. It was due to house homeless people. We have seen 26 arson attacks in the past five years against...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: We have deep inequality. We have neglected communities because of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael which have run the State since its foundation. That is why ordinary people need to take a stand against the terrorism of the far right, against the racism, homophobia, sexism and hate that it tries to spread, and against the housing crisis and inequality that the Government has created. It is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: No. I can repeat what I said, if you want.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I said the pattern is very clear. It is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am not blaming the Government for the burning down of these buildings. I am not sure where the Minister got that impression. Those who are responsible for burning down the buildings are those who burned down the buildings and the far right, which is whipping up false fears, spreading hatred, spreading division and creating an environment where this can happen. However, after five years...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am blaming the Government for the inequality in our society, for the housing crisis in our society and for the health crisis in our society which are exploited by those on the far right, who, instead of pointing their anger upwards at the people the Government represents, falsely blame the vulnerable in our society. That is what I am blaming the Government for.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes, of the arsonists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline what action is being taken to implement the recommendation of the Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity that Ireland adopt the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and the recommendation that the legal rights of nature be recognised via a constitutional referendum. [5957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he intends to establish an expert group with resources to design and draft the potential question or questions on the rights of nature as recommended by the Joint Oireachtas Committee in its report on the Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity. [5958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 296. To ask the Minister for Health what actions his Department is taking in relation to nitrous oxide gas; if research has been carried out by the HSE in relation to the potential dangers of taking this gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5790/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Relations (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an industrial relations issue (details supplied); if this is Government policy in respect of how the heath service is going to treat all public service employees; his views on this tactic of threatening public servant union members with suspension and ignoring all national protocols in the workplace if they do not comply with orders...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Registration Tax (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 24 March 2021, if registering a vehicle in a false name and address is illegal; his plans to implement this section (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5517/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline what assurances were given to a company (details supplied) in relation to a plant prior to its construction and to publish any letters containing such assurances. [5633/24]