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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the funding crisis within St. John of God Community Services; if he will instruct the HSE to deliver unequivocal confirmation of the funding required to both address the deficit and maintain the financial and operational sustainability of services prior to the scheduled 25 January meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Health if he will secure investment for prostate cancer treatment available in Ireland through the HSE; if he will ensure that high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment is urgently made available through the HSE; if a person can avail of this treatment should it not be made available through the HSE using the treatment abroad scheme; and the HSE’s plans...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the issue of trans rights in education and healthcare come up in discussions with church leaders? The Catholic Primary School Management Association recently wrote to the Government, arguing that students should not be taught what it means to be transgender. It stated that it would be "counterproductive, generating unnecessary divisions" and, "more seriously, it might add to a growing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: My question is simple. Will long Covid be included in the terms of reference of the Covid inquiry? It is clearly important that if we are to come to a balanced assessment of mistakes that were made and so on, we do not look just at the short term but also at the long-term implications for hundreds of thousands of people, such as illness, isolation and inability to work. In that regard, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: At the weekend, it was reported that the Government is considering the introduction of an Internet tax, that is, a tax of €10 to €15 which will apply to everybody's broadband bills, to replace the TV licence fee. At a rate of €15, that would mean €180 for practically every household in the country. Broadband is not some luxury; it is a necessity. Such a tax...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [53912/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Over the past number of months across Europe we have seen repression and criminalisation of pro-Palestinian protestors. In Germany, for example, there have been severe police crackdowns and a banning of Palestine solidarity protests on the wrong basis that they are antisemitic. In Britain, we have seen the potential criminalisation of the carrying of flags and of chants, and there is now a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I had to step out for a while so if I ask something that has been answered already, my apologies. Can anyone tell me what the total cost of this was to an average household over the period that it was in operation, separate from the overcharging?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: It was about €250, or something like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but over how many years? Was it 11 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Okay, so it was somewhere between €250 and €300 over that time. That is effectively a transfer from households to corporations. Does the Minister of State politically agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State agree it was the right decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Corporations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: If people lose their jobs, as a lot of people did during this period, the idea that they would not care about electricity prices seems a bit bizarre. They will have less income so clearly every bill they have will be more impactful and they will be more concerned about it. I am somewhat sceptical about the idea that unemployed people would say not to worry about them and to take their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State accept that what happened here was effectively a form of shock doctrine? Effectively, something was presented as being essential for the moment - responding to a situation of mass unemployment where companies were feeling the heat, etc. - and that we had to do something. Then it was made permanent. The ESB's opening statement refers to this as "enduring", as in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The decision could have been made at the time. Even if we accept the logic of the moment, a decision could have been made that we will do this for three years, four years or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Instead, it was enduring. This is what happens during crises. Measures are put in place which are then enduring unless a political spotlight is placed on them. Does the Minister of State accept that was a mistake?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: To make it an enduring as opposed to a time-limited measure.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that one-year's advance notice should be provided for the location of both the home and overseas National Famine Commemoration Day, as is the norm for days of importance in the national calendar. [2926/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 323. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that both the national and international/twinning National Famine Commemoration Days should be held on the same day, on the third Sunday in May. [2927/24]