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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the recourse a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 has to query a diagnosis and medication. [36375/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (20 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 653. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has assessed the conditions in Traveller accommodation, including the safety of such accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36307/15]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: I join Deputy Broughan in asking what will be the estimated cost of this extra tax expenditure. I presume the Minister is not talking about a huge amount of money but for me this is a microcosm of the approach of the Government on a range of issues, which is to go for corporate welfare as opposed to public investment in services. The total corporate welfare bill is conservatively somewhere...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: They make a desert and call it peace, so said Calgacus, allegedly, surveying the destruction wrought by the Roman Empire. The Government has created a deeply unequal society. It has created a society where homelessness is rife and where low pay is dominant and they have called it a recovery. The budget is designed to give the impression that something is being given back; that it is a...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: No it does not include private health insurance. The Minister of State should look at the budget in 2007 for 2008.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: That is inaccurate.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: Health spending has been cut dramatically in the State. It remains lower. That gets to the point which is that the vast majority of the €31 billion of cuts that have applied, continue. We are about €30 billion smaller in terms of vital spending than we were pre-crisis. I draw attention to young people’s jobseeker’s allowance. The Labour Party in particular...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: I say to the Minister, Deputy Brenan Howlin, who speaks of Pasok now? Who speaks of the Green Party now?

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: Who will speak of the Labour Party in the year to come?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the practice of retailers seeking a fee from customers paying utility bills in their outlets; if he will consider investigating the practice; the possibility of regulations to prevent the practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35437/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Controls (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 345. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 483 of 10 February 2015, and the contradictory information on the Department website (details supplied), if he will confirm whether the passport card is valid for travel to Switzerland. [35223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the assistance given to a person (details supplied) who continues to be detained in Egypt awaiting trial. [35344/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the postponement of the trial of a person (details supplied) in Egypt, if he will adopt a different approach to the diplomatic pressure being placed on the Egyptian authorities. [35345/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 1 October 2015, his views on the deteriorating political, military and human rights situation in occupied Palestine. [35346/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to the United Nations General Assembly. [35347/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (13 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any bilateral meetings and discussions he held while attending the United Nations General Assembly. [35348/15]

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: Where? That is not true.

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: When I first read the capital plan it reminded me of the film "This is Spinal Tap" in which they talk about the turning the volume up to 11. This time the Government has announced a capital plan that is six years long instead of the normal five years. This allowed the Government to announce €27 billion instead of something less than €22 billion. If the purpose of the plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proceeds of Sale of Aer Lingus: Motion (7 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: I apologise for missing the presentation. I was in the middle of something else. I have a copy of the speech. I do not agree with it, given that I do not agree with the process by which we got the money in the first instance. If I were in government tomorrow, I would reinvest the money to try to buy back Aer Lingus shares. Accepting that we have the money, I have questions about the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: A quote from Rosa Luxemburg, when she wrote about the atrocities in the German Revolution, is very apt in light of the migration crisis that has been unfolding on Europe's borders: "Usually a corpse is a silent, unhandsome thing, but sometimes dead bodies speak louder than trumpets and shine brighter than torches." The harrowing images of three year old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a beach and...