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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is more than 15 months since the Government received the working group report on building defects in apartments and duplexes. It revealed the scale of the crisis that up to 100,000 families are facing. They are facing serious fire defects and other defects with an average remediation cost of €25,000. The responsibility for this crisis lies with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Twelve years ago I visited the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. I was struck by how packed it was with more than 100,000 people living in closely cramped quarters in less than 1.4 sq. km. Many streets are so small that you cannot even fit a coffin down them. Today, much of Jabalia, a refugee camp, lies in ruins because Israel targeted it for bombardment. I visited a hospital in Gaza....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: It would demonstrate real solidarity with the Palestinian people. I have two questions for the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government make a referral to the International Criminal Court so there can be an investigation and will he expel the Israeli ambassador?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has acknowledged that there needs to be an investigation by the International Criminal Court. It is true that the Prosecutor has said that the ICC has authority, but what that is referring to is the fact that Israel is not a signatory to the Rome Statute and therefore it is saying it is not applicable to it. The Prosecutor is saying "No. Things that are committed in Gaza can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Those countries whose citizens are allowed to leave are those who voted in line with Israel against the ceasefire and Irish and Brazilian citizens are effectively being punished by Israel for our vote in favour of the ceasefire at the UN.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: The best thing for Irish citizens in Gaza-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: -----and everyone else is for the bombing and the assault to stop. The more pressure on Israel, and the more isolation of Israel, the more pressure that will be put on Israel to do precisely that. The best thing we can do, precisely, is to expel the ambassador and to send a signal to them and to the whole world.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a ban on glyphosate (details supplied); if he is aware of the dangers reported about this very controversial pesticide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a complaint (details supplied) is processed as soon as possible; his views on the contents of the complaint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48969/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I raise the case of the death of Margaret Bracken, whose body was discovered at her home in Dundalk on 16 December 2019. The Garda very quickly concluded that there was nothing suspicious about the circumstances of her death. That conclusion was reached extremely quickly, with the sergeant and inspector having spent less than ten minutes in the house before doing so. However, they ignored...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Using gas.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: It will burn fossil fuels.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the recently published annual report of his Department. [46438/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Department of the Taoiseach is responsible for co-ordinating the State's climate action plan which obliges the State to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 but last week he and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine jetted off to South Korea to flog beef exports to that country thousands of miles away while simultaneously signing a new deal for a data centre in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Britain has seen very sizeable protests of hundreds of thousands of people in solidarity with the Palestinians and in opposition to the genocidal assault by Israel on Gaza. That has happened in the context of massive repression and threatened repression. A letter from the Home Secretary to police constables suggests that flying a Palestinian flag in Britain may be a criminal offence and...