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Situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel: Statements (20 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: Ten days of terror have been raining down on the people of Gaza. We are now on day 11. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 60 children. Lynch mobs are roaming the streets of cities within Israel, shouting slogans like "Death to Arabs", backed up by state forces targeting Palestinians. Ethnic cleansing is continuing in East Jerusalem. What was the response of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department plans to review its handling of the outbreaks of Covid-19 in the meat processing industry over the past year with a view to improving preventative measures in the future. [27379/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (20 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for banning mink fur farming; and the current population of mink in such farms in Ireland. [27019/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered the possible impacts of the further concentration of ownership of the meat processing industry here on small farmers. [27017/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the planned expansion of the dairy processing industry here. [27015/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulatory Bodies (20 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish an independent regulator for the meat industry to address instability in the sector. [27018/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: I do not think it is an accident that the housing policy of this Government and many previous Governments has not solved the housing crisis and has not addressed the needs of ordinary people, but instead has lined the pockets of developers, speculators and investment funds. I put it to the Taoiseach that is because housing policy has been captured by those interests. We have seen many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach never answers the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach should answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26244/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26245/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is reported that yesterday the Cabinet agreed to seek to extend the sweeping Garda emergency powers to November with a possible extension all the way to February 2022. Shamefully, while political parties have been exempted from the ban on gatherings, workers' pickets and socially distanced protests have been effectively banned for over a year. Recently, taxi drivers were threatened with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the policing reform implementation programme office based in his Department. [26512/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the President of the European Commission. [24256/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The statement of the EU Commission President that she condemns indiscriminate attacks by Hamas on Israel was scandalous. There was no mention of the ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem. Neither was there any mention of the pogroms being carried out by far-right Israeli activists in Israel, with the backing of state forces, against Palestinians. Likewise, there was no mention of the bombs...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is noteworthy how the Taoiseach is the only man in the building without an ideology. It really is quite striking. It is the best kind of ideology when you do not admit that it is an ideology. Parents and staff at Firhouse Educate Together Secondary School have been forced to struggle again and again to ensure they have buildings for the kids and students on the school site. Last...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There have been decades of underinvestment in our water infrastructure. That underinvestment continues, and the danger is that it will be used as another excuse to try to introduce water charges, which still will not resolve the underinvestment. Last week, the OECD called for the reintroduction of water charges in Ireland. In case the Government gets the wrong idea, it must be put on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: To start with the point about the lottery system, it is good that the Minister of State recognises that it is inadequate. Frankly, it is sick that in 2021 pupils are relying on a lottery to determine whether they get a hot meal in school. Either the programme is necessary, which the evidence suggests is clearly the case, or it is not but it is not acceptable in this day and age that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is a grave injustice being done to the 149 pupils who attend Knockmore Junior School in Killinarden and a similar injustice being done to 91 other schools and the children who go there. These are schools that applied for the hot school meal programme because they need it and they lost out on the basis of a lottery. It is completely unfair. There is plenty of academic evidence, not...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest engagement with the social partners. [24670/21]