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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Thousands of workers in our bars and restaurants are being told to leave the country by the end of the month as the Department of Justice is refusing to give a simple extension until September for those on stamp 2 visas. This means thousands of people will have to leave their accommodation and jobs for the summer. When they return next September they will have to try to find new apartments...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and policing reform division of his Department. [24527/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [24526/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide and update on the national risk assessment. [24777/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Public transport fares have recently been reduced for the first time since the Second World War. As a consequence, we have seen an increase in passenger numbers which is very welcome. Imagine what moving to free, fast and frequent public transport could do. We know that cutting fares saves people's money, reduces congestion and cuts CO2emissions. More than 100 cities and towns across the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The establishment parties.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Like the Taoiseach is elected.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: It has. Not now-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: This is whataboutery.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Finland and Estonia. [20610/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government of Finland, along with the Government of Sweden, has just announced its intention to ditch its neutrality and apply to join NATO. The latter is a US-led military alliance that is responsible for decades of brutal occupation in Afghanistan and horrendous atrocities in the Middle East. During the war in Kosovo, it bombed hospitals, prisons, embassies and many people's homes....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: If he had a free hand, I am of the view that the Taoiseach would like to sign Ireland up to NATO. However, he knows that he does not have a free hand so instead he wants to chip away bit by bit at what is left of our neutrality. Will he commit to giving people a referendum to enshrine neutrality in the Constitution in order to stop it from being a policy matter that can be changed?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach cannot keep saying it as if it makes it that way.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Clinically appropriate.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline measures taken to prevent abuse of the Work Placement Experience Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce deprivation among lone parent families given the increase in deprivation found in the latest EU survey on income and living conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24513/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules, procedures and regulations regarding the capturing of wild hares for coursing. [24574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules, procedures and regulations regarding the release of wild hares after coursing has concluded for example, if hares are released in the exact location in which they were captured; and the measures that are taken to distinguish which hare was captured from which location. [24577/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to take action to ensure that shareholders in a company do not divide up the assets of a company (details supplied) into individual residential units for the purposes of evading restrictions on carrying out tenant evictions. [24798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the thousands of parents who have children living with a disability that will not be able to avail of the July provision summer programme despite being eligible; her views on the need for a review and update of the current conditions, which needs to include consultations with families regarding their needs;...