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

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that there should be a National Famine Commemoration Day on the island of Ireland, to include all of the people across Ireland, North and South. [2928/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to request her Department to offer a solution to the issue outlined (details supplied), ensuring that this person is given access to their weekly allowance entitlement. [2439/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considers the position of a person (details supplied) to be any longer tenable, given that the organisation over which they preside allowed an individual to continue to own and race greyhounds at tracks around this country for up to ten months after the said individual had been banned from owning, keeping or breeding a dog...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has read the preferred results response to a report by a person (details supplied) about the greyhound industry; and whether he considers its findings should result in a change in Government policy on public support for the greyhound industry.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what steps are taken to ensure that the required storage facilities for chicken litter are in fact built after chicken farms are established. [2960/24]

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I welcome this Bill as a long overdue reform of the social welfare system in relation to maintenance. It is nothing short of outrageous that for decades lone mothers have been legally obliged to pursue fathers for maintenance by the Department of Social Protection and are then penalised by the Department when the father does not pay court-approved maintenance. That is because the Department...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The biggest ever strike is taking place in the North today, with more than 150,000 workers from right across the public sector taking co-ordinated action to fight for higher wages. They are fed up with seeing their real-term wages drop and being punished by a Tory Government that wants to ensure their pay levels drop behind those of workers in England, Scotland and Wales. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a statement in relation to the attacks by armed gangs in Nigeria (details supplied). [2149/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he agrees that all homes which have received a G BER rating should be entitled to improvements under the warmer homes scheme; if he will instruct his Department to update the terms of the scheme to ensure this is the case given in the (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2158/24]

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I support our amendments and the others that go in the same direction. I am disappointed, if not surprised, by the extremely limp wording proposed by the Government to replace this section. Having such poor wording, which is correctly open to strong criticism, as we will make, not only misses an opportunity to make a meaningful difference for carers in this country, but also endangers this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: We used it to debate the genocide convention.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: She is misleading the Dáil.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: We used our Private Members' time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: An answer would be great.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Then do something about it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: No, you are not. You are doing nothing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: A Cheann Comhairle------

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: It makes a charade of the place not to discuss a genocide-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: -----and to continue as if we have business as usual,

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: -----when 250 Palestinians------