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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence [49912/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is unable to avail of the disabled drivers scheme unless they modify their car, given that this person does not need adaptions to drive but needs to avail of the benefits provided by the scheme; if he will investigate this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Home Schooling (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance if, further to previous correspondence where he confirmed that the Department of Education has an "administrative agreement" with the Revenue Commissioners, where home tutors are classified as self-employed entirely because of a precedential group or class decision of the social welfare appeals office to label all home tutors as self-employed for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Trafficking (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that serious concerns in relation to the WRC labour inspectorate's interactions with migrant workers - and, in particular, undocumented migrant workers - were raised in "protected disclosures" by a WRC labour inspector to the WRC and the Department in 2015, to Minister Frances Fitzgerald in 2017 and to Minister Simon Coveney...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Protected Disclosures (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm whether a disclosure to Minister Fitzgerald in July 2017 (details supplied) was included in the Department’s Protected Disclosures Report for 2017, as required under Section 22 of the Protected Disclosures Act; and, if so, what specific wording was used to declare that disclosure. [50022/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the issue of the barriers to full Teaching Council registration for a teacher (details supplied) who has obtained qualifications outside the Republic of Ireland, despite the opening-up of a route to full registration. [49278/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will instruct her Department to investigate a case (details supplied); if she will ensure this person receives compensation for the time they were unable to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49561/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will now accept that the approach of using precedential group and/or class decisions to make insurability of employment determinations on groups and/or classes of workers is unlawful [49833/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will clarify what steps she is taking to compensate workers for their losses by being unlawfully misclassified as self-employed by group and/or class by the Social Welfare Appeals Office, which the Minister has been aware of since at least 1995. [49834/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will make a public statement to the effect that the failure of the Social Welfare Appeals Office and Senior Management of her Department to halt the unlawful use of precedential sample/test cases when her Department was first informed of this unlawful practice may now...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if hare coursing meetings at Fermoy and Trim, scheduled to take place last weekend, were called off; if so, to outline the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds between 2012 and 2022; and the number of those inseminations that were carried out with sperm straws collected from now deceased stud dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 383. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022 will include a ban on surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49626/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the traceability system (RCÉTS) for greyhounds is not utilised to provide a full picture of what happens with greyhounds in Ireland, i.e., outlining on a regular basis how many pups are born in any given year, when they die and if they are exported. [49627/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of correspondence from Caredoc (details supplied); if he will keep the terms and conditions of these workers in line with Section 38 and HSE staff, given that the CIT team in Caredoc is the only national team not to have received the building momentum pay rises and 37.5-hour week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49775/23]

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Pringle for pushing consistently for this debate because it is very important. It should have been about a formal announcement by the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, that Ireland was immediately withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty. Unfortunately, it is not. Italy, Germany, France, Poland and Luxembourg have all already formally withdrawn. Ireland said it plans to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ALONE has published a report on housing adaptation grants. It reveals that almost 6,000 families across the country are on waiting lists for housing adaptations for loved ones, older people and people with disabilities. It also suggests that local authorities are turning down applications because of a lack of funding. Thousands of other people are not entitled to a grant because they are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (9 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is concerned at the impact of pollution from agriculture on algal blooms in Blessington Lakes; the measures he will take to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47008/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the Taoiseach spoke about the need for the International Criminal Court, ICC, to have a proper investigation into the alleged war crimes which we think are very clearly, openly and brazenly being committed by Israel in Gaza. I asked the Taoiseach about it earlier in Leaders' Questions. I suggested that the Government should use the power that it has under Article 14 of the Rome...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [46437/23]