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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to education issues for a person (details supplied) why it was decided by the Education Welfare Officer that they did not meet the criteria for home tuition; can this decision be appealed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5584/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 23 January 2024, if she can offer further advice in relation to a person (details supplied) obtaining official ID. [4936/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to comment on delays in the citizenship application process (details supplied); to provide proof that the backlog of applications from the old system are not being neglected now that the new system is in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5550/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 406. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the footage shared of pregnant cows who are being exported to Algeria for the first time (details supplied); if he agrees that forcing a pregnant animal to travel from Ireland to Algeria, with all of the known health risks, is a desperate compromise in welfare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5544/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 407. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale for the nutrient values ascribed to chicken litter in Ireland; and the reason that figure differs considerably from the value used in Britain and elsewhere.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5548/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the number, locations and level of State funding provided to youth clubs in the Tallaght area for each the past five years; if he will also provide the same information for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4930/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make public transport free for under-18s and students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4415/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: We have had many exchanges in the Chamber on the need for free public transport. People Before Profit are very clear we consider this to be a key environmental and cost-of-living measure. I want to focus on the question of making public transport free for under-18s and students because not only is it a very good idea, but it is also Green Party policy. Are we going to see it happen?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. The Green Party transport policy from April 2021 refers to short-term actions to be done within 12 months. One is to "Make public transport free for all students (up to and including 3rd level) ...". It is now 34 months later and students are still paying for public transport. What I took from the Minister's answer, as well as recent reporting in the Irish Examineris...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: The fare reduction is welcome; there is no question about that. It has made a difference, so imagine what a difference it could make if the Minister's party's policy were implemented and we reduced the fares so far that they no longer existed. Imagine what that would mean for people in terms of the money in their pocket and the ease of just knowing they can jump on a bus, train or whatever...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: So would I.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: We are in favour of access in Dún Laoghaire.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I do not think so.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will find out, but I do not think so.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the method used to calculate passenger numbers at Dublin Airport and if he will take action to ensure that the airport remains within the passenger cap. [4820/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: It was revealed last weekend in The Irish Timesthat the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, is cooking the books in terms of the numbers of passengers going through the airport and, in reality, is breaching the passenger cap. If all passengers going through the airport were properly counted, the airport would have breached the 32 million passengers per annum cap by more than 1 million. What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I raised this with the Minister, and I had the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers answer me, on 30 November. The Minister of State assured me then that "the CEO of the DAA has confirmed that, until planning permission ... is granted, it will continue to manage passenger capacity ... to ensure this planning condition [of 32 million] is not breached." DAA is breaching it. It is in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: The DAA has provided the methodology all right and the methodology says we are cooking the books. The Minister of State is telling me that the Government and a Department led by a Green Minister does not mind and says that it is nothing to do with them. Are private jet customers included? Are they included in the figure that keeps under 32 million cap the 31.9 million figure which DAA...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what measures he is taking to prevent cancellations and no-shows of buses in Dublin, particularly on the new BusConnects routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4414/24]