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Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all social welfare payments will be increased in line with inflation in the forthcoming budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33170/23]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will ask the Minister a simple question. Does she agree that all social welfare payments should be increased at least in line with the rate of inflation in the forthcoming budget? The Government did not do this in the last budget and the result has been that the poorest people in our society got poorer as a consequence of the decisions the Government made. These consequences are that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is cold comfort to the 12,441 people who are homeless now. The Minister made the point, which is true, that the staggered nature of the ending of the eviction ban has had an impact. It meant we did not have the tsunami in one fell swoop. That is true, but we in the Opposition never said it would come in one fell swoop. I am not an expert in tsunamis, but I get the impression they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We do not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We do not need a private rental sector.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We do not need a private rental sector. It is not true. We need homes for people to live in and affordable rents for them. The landlords the Minister spoke about exiting the market cannot bring the homes with them. They do not strap the apartments to their backs, get on a boat and leave; the properties remain here. They cannot remove them. We simply need the State to step in, in every...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: No criteria; everybody should be entitled to be a tenant of the State and to a differential rent. The entire and central problem of the whole Government strategy is that it is obsessed with incentivising the private sector. I ask the Minister, how many is too many? What is the target for when there will be zero? His predecessors had targets for ending homeless - for Joan Burton, it was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We are not saying end it. The Minister knows that is not what we are saying.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the impact of the ending of the eviction ban on the latest homelessness figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33183/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The latest figures show there are 12,441 people in emergency accommodation, including an incredible 3,699 children. That is more people than live in Rush, Portmarnock or Skerries in the Minister’s constituency. When these figures came out, the Minister effectively said to the media that they vindicated the decision to end the eviction ban; however, since the ban ended, the figures...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has set a target date for ending homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33182/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what new measures she plans to adopt to ensure that people with disabilities are not at risk of poverty due to the cost of disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33167/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of supports provided to Tara Mines workers to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33168/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase supports available to homeless families and children given the rise in homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33169/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase social welfare payments in the next Budget to ensure that everyone in the State has at least a minimum essential standard of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33171/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update in relation to the urgent emergency works application by a school (details supplied). [33304/23]

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: Unless I am misreading it, in which case the Minister of State will correct me, the proposed amendment does not deal with the main problem, which is that there is potential for the dedesignation of a large number of NHAs and allowing peat mining to take place. There is explicit reference in respect of dedesignation to national, regional and local economic needs. This means economic needs...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: Again, I am just trying to put these pieces of the jigsaw together. I might start with some general questions for the Minister of State to address now. A number of commitments were made in the Seanad to Senator Alice-Mary Higgins in regard to amendments she had proposed, so I will just go through some of them and ask, if I can, whether these are addressed in the current lists we have before...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: Is that amendments Nos. 1 and 2 from the Seanad to be replaced by amendment 1c?

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: Okay.