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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Health the number of stage 2 and 3 grievances dealt with in the time parameters set out in the HSE grievance procedure with reference to the ambulance service in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9804/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls that required ambulance staff to work beyond their rostered finishing time in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9805/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has investigated whether there is remains of a mass famine grave site at a location (details supplied) on Coillte land in view of the fact that there is a granite memorial stone with the inscription of 1,847 there; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9793/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Employment Rights (26 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a review of legislation will be considered to allow employees who work at an embassy here to avail of rights under employment law here, including the pursuance of their cases through the appropriate workplace relations bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9594/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (26 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 654. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location for National Famine Commemoration Day that has been agreed for the third Sunday in May 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9042/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (26 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 655. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a review of the National Monuments Acts will be considered with a view to amendments in order to ensure that persons that find archaeological objects in circumstances (details supplied) will not be liable to prosecution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9051/19]

European Defence Agency Project: Motion (19 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Each time a European Defence Agency project comes forward, the Government and those in supposed opposition who are also in favour say it is not the European army, which they claim they will oppose when it comes to it. They say that, right now, the project is so limited that we will, of course, be involved. It misses the point about mission creep in the development of the European Defence...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is like Groundhog Day every time we discuss housing. I welcome the motion from the Independents 4 Change. We support the motion. It is a good motion but every single time we talk about housing it is exactly the same. The Government says it appreciates that things are bad, but that they are getting better. We have been dealing with that response from this Government and the previous...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Saturday's march with 50,000 nurses, midwives, paramedics and their supporters in all sorts of different jobs and trade unions - a sea of INMO blue coming down O'Connell Street - was a striking demonstration of the power and solidarity of working-class people. Coming on top of three days of very effective strike action, it no doubt struck fear into the heart of the Government and brought it...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: That is tautology.

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (13 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to reviewing sections 43 and 54 of the Water Services Act 2007 in view of the consequences for householders where sewage blockages are reported under properties belonging to other persons but which result in sewage problems on their properties; his plans to introduce a scheme that would ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (12 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to allow those who have reached 65 years of age and are retired to apply for the full State pension; the cost of such a reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6935/19]

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Two placards held by young nurses on the picket line in Tallaght on Tuesday morning summed up a very important aspect of this dispute. One read, "I am not striking for the good of my health; I am striking for the good of yours." Another was a message to the Ministers: "Pay your nurses as if your life depends on it." These messages highlight that it is patient safety that has suffered first...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: I support the motion and will vote for it. It is correct to draw attention to the absence of a fair chance at equality and a fair start for children. One of the most difficult things we deal with in our case work is when we meet children who live in hotels and the like night after night. It is an incredible disruption in people's lives and it will continue to impact on them in the long...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Now, I will respond to Deputy Howlin's comments to Deputy Ellis that what he said was rubbish, because it was not rubbish. The record of the Labour Party in government was particularly about attacking and destroying the lives of children and creating some of the crises we have today.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Let us listen to Social Justice Ireland on budget 2012 and the Department of Social Protection under the then Minister, Deputy Joan Burton. Social Justice Ireland said families with children were among the greatest casualties of that budget. It described as "draconian" cuts to child benefit for the third child and subsequent children as well as to the back-to-school clothing and footwear...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Child benefit cuts were made in every budget from 2012 to 2014 and the total cuts for a family with four children came to €104 a month. There were cuts to the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance in every budget. The cumulative loss in payments to a lone parent with two children working part-time and earning €200 per week as a result of Deputy Burton's cuts from 2011...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: In July 2014, there were 749 children in emergency accommodation but by the end of April 2016, just before Labour left office, that number had almost tripled to more than 2,000. The trend has continued under the same policies because under the Labour Party, including its responsible Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, the building of council houses collapsed to an all-time low of 75 in 2015.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Exactly. Some people got a lot of money in that time. Child care costs are obviously astronomical but the answer is not to outsource the State's responsibility to provide it by subsidising private child care. The answer is to invest in a massive State-run and publicly-owned child-care system like the systems which already exist in several EU member states, including Spain and Italy, while...