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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which properties are assessed and categorised by local authorities like SDCC for families with specific medical and accessibility needs; and the oversight that is in place to ensure these categorisations are accurately applied and communicated. [11280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in cases where discrepancies arise between initial assessments and subsequent communications from local authority personnel (details supplied), the mechanisms that are in place for families to seek review or appeal these decisions to ensure their homes are made suitable for their needs without undue delay or confusion. [11281/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the responsibilities and accountability within local authorities for ensuring that properties allocated as medical relets meet the requisite standards and adaptations as promised to families with disabled members. [11282/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the redress scheme to include all those who spent time in a mother and baby institution or county home; if he will consider making an enhanced medical card available to all survivors, extend the scheme to anyone abused in a 'boarding out'/adoptive placement or abused through forced labour,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 352. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the funding crisis facing the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme (UMAAP) currently delivered via ADHD Ireland and the recent decision by the HSE to withdraw funding for UMAAP in 2024; and if he will instruct the HSE to reverse this decision and ensure the continuation of this vital programme. [11268/24]

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Labhair mé cúpla uair sa Teach seo maidir leis an éileamh do pholasaí don Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais ón réamhscoil go dtí an tríú leibhéal a fhorbairt, mar atá á mholadh ag an bhfeachtas Gaeilge4All. Ní hamháin nach bhfuil dul chun cinn ar siúl, ach tá rudaí ag dul in olcas. Bhain an Roinn...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Last week during Leaders' Questions, Deputy Micheál Martin was outraged when I suggested that is a policy choice by the Government to put more than 1,000 people seeking asylum onto the streets. Over the weekend, we got definitive proof that it is a very cruel policy choice. On Friday, when the snow came down and the tents collapsed, the Government came under pressure and beds were...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: There were plenty of beds in the facilities. There are pictures.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: It will be about three minutes and five minutes. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. We agree with a lot of what is in the motion, including better security for tenants, compulsory purchase of vacant and derelict buildings by local authorities, and bigger housing targets. The only thing is that it is a shame the Labour Party did not do any of that when it was in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development with regard to her responsibility for Water Safety Ireland what measures she intends to take to reduce the number of drownings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10747/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about a pretty pressing issue for underfunded community drugs projects, namely, the extortionate cost of insurance. I will give a couple of examples from Tallaght to show just what an impact this is having. One project was paying €2,500 six years ago for insurance. That increased to just over €6,000 three years ago. For 2023, the insurance company wanted...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9322/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise again the huge hikes in childcare fees happening in crèches. Management personnel in many crèches are saying that they cannot afford to stay in the core funding programme any more, and are massively hiking their prices as a result. I have spoken to the Taoiseach previously about Chuckleberries crèche in Firhouse, where fees are being increased by an incredible...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I do not know if the Taoiseach knows the post office in The Square in Tallaght. It is extraordinarily busy whenever you go there, and it is more than just a post office. It is a community hub for many people, where workers are extremely helpful to those who are coming in, advising them on what to do and so on. Those workers, and those who use the service, are faced with that post office...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [9321/24]

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [9320/24]

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ban advertising of fossil fuels and fossil fuelled vehicles, including commercial sponsorship, by corporate entities and to establish a Fossil Fuel Information Commission for the purposes of product and price comparisons by the public. I am introducing this Bill today as a small step in combating the climate catastrophe...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: This morning, I went to a screening organised by the National Animal Rights Association and Animal Rebellion Ireland. It contained footage taken from two randomly selected pig farms in Ireland and it was extremely harrowing. These are very smart, sentient animals. They have no daylight or comfortable bedding. They have no space. They are massively crammed together in farrowing crates,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can provide a solution to an issue as regards guardianship (details supplied); if he will consider updating the legislation for someone who is the sole guardian in getting a child's passport; and if not, why not. [10054/24]