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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 372. To ask the Minister for Health under what circumstances the National Gender Service considers it appropriate to stop providing hormones to a transgender person without their consent. [4717/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Gender Service turns away patients for being unemployed. [4718/24]

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I agree with the point of bringing into line how Ukrainians and other asylum seekers are treated. The question is whether we go down to how asylum seekers are treated with inhumanity or go up to how Ukrainians were treated with basic humanity. Sinn Féin and the Government are saying that we should level down to the level of inhumanity. Sinn Féin's position was for the scrapping...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Could the Minister live on €38.80 per week?

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: So why is the Government ending it?

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Do not treat people like that. Reducing the payment to €38.80 a week; the Minister is a disgrace.

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister was at pains to emphasise how much Ireland has done, how proud we are of the people we have taken in and so on. However, she wants to cut the payments to Ukrainians. She wants people to live on €38.80 a week while living in overcrowded and inadequate emergency accommodation. She thinks that is okay, and so does Sinn Féin. In fact, it is pretty poor. Would the...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: There are 600 men on the streets now because they are not Ukrainian.

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I did not say the Deputy was doing it.

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Do we go through this section by section?

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: We will not discuss the sections?

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Perfect. I am very happy to do that. These amendments relate to what is effectively new legislation introduced by the Government on Committee Stage, which is extremely poor practice in terms of having any parliamentary oversight. We should have had new legislation. The Government wants to strip rights from Ukrainians and put them on poverty rates as it treats other asylum seekers. It...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Kenny for all the work he has done on this issue and on the Bill. I also thank those who have gone before him, including Ming Flanagan who is in the Gallery. I also thank all the campaigners, many of whom are here. They have been pushing on this issue for a long time, trying to get us in the direction of social progress. I have been here almost ten years, incredibly, and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [4023/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the Cabinet committees on which he sits. [4033/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I raise the absolute scandal of how children with additional needs are failed by this State and left languishing on waiting lists for necessary therapies for years. I have figures, which show that almost 9,000 children across the country have been waiting more than 12 months, not for therapies, but for initial contacts from their CDNTs. A campaigner has done a tremendous amount of research...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The housing crisis is still getting worse. Every week, I meet couples who are working, whose combined income puts them over the limit for social housing and who are simply unable to afford a home in the market. They are spending all their money, week to week, on their rent and cannot save up a deposit. Such people are utterly trapped. The market has failed those people. The Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on Housing for All. [2798/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: For a number of years, the Government has talked the talk when it comes to a health-led approach to drugs but it definitely has not walked the walk. The failed and failing war on drugs has continued. In 2022, 17,321 controlled drug offences were reported. There has not been the investment needed in the front-line drug addiction services and task forces. Investment has basically stagnated....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [4032/24]