Results 12,101-12,120 of 12,388 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent increase in the Nursing and Midwifery Board’s registration fee from €100 to €150 (details supplied) and on reports that nurses and midwives that do not pay the additional €50 have been threatened with being taken off the register. [2380/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (21 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the upcoming Landlord and Tenant Reform Bill will propose to reform the law concerning estate management companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2950/15]

Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: Once again, we are told we have a monumental step forward, as the First Minister, Peter Robinson, put it; the Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, described this document as astounding; and the US diplomat, Meghan O'Sullivan, described it as a new era for Northern Ireland politics. In contrast to all of the empty bluff and bluster, the ad by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 492. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to the ambassador for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Ireland regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and 1,000 lashes for criticism of the authorities in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2225/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of seized dogs or dogs otherwise in the care of local authorities by county for the past three years; and the number of these dogs that were successfully rehomed. [2230/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if measures are being considered to publish the registers of seized dogs as per section 14 of the Control of Dogs Act 1986 held by local authorities online or in a form easily accessible to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2231/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (20 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures put in place by his Department to ensure that dogs in the care of local authorities are adequately cared for with appropriate accommodation and veterinary care, including those put into the care of outsourced companies or institutions by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2232/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (15 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on changes to be made in the Garda National Immigration Bureau to end long queues outside their office on Burgh Quay in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1406/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on changes made by her Department in relation to the granting of citizenship to children born here whose non-EEA-Swiss parents do not meet residency requirements, as highlighted by an Ombudsman's investigative report in 2014; her views on the Ombudsman's remit to be extended to include naturalisation and immigration sections...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: A number of the amendments – Nos. 2 to 15 and Nos. 17 and 18 - depend on whether we are to have a broad or narrow approach to the registration and regulation of lobbyists. At the moment, unfortunately, the Government’s approach is to take quite a narrow view of who can be lobbied and also who can do the lobbying. It will not capture in any way the real lobbying that goes on...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Minister for Defence the measures that are in place to ensure that the technologies developed following co-operation between the Defence Forces and companies and research institutions involved with the research and development of military capabilities are not used in the violation of human rights. [1222/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on a change to the State's policy on military neutrality in the White Paper on Defence; his further views that the United States use of Shannon Airport, the commitment to increase military capacity under the Lisbon treaty and support for French intervention in its former colonies indicate a move away from the policy on military neutrality; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Court of Human Rights Judgments (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 360. To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the recent cases at the European County of Human Rights (details supplied) which upheld certain trade union rights for Defence Forces' personnel and the recent case taken by the AGSI at the European Committee on Social Rights which upheld its right to affiliate with ICTU and to strike, if he will review the restriction on Defence Force...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Expenditure (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 361. To ask the Minister for Defence the resources the Government plans to put into the funding of new equipment and capabilities for the Defence Forces; and the upgrades that are necessary to continue to participate in UN, EU battle group and NATO PfP missions. [1231/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 362. To ask the Minister for Defence the plans for the use of the Defence Forces in serious industrial relations conflicts or other social conflicts. [1232/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 363. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to increase the pay of Defence forces personnel. [1233/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Defence Agency (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Defence the contributions Ireland makes to the European Defence Agency. [1464/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Contracts (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 372. To ask the Minister for Defence the measures being taken to ensure that matters taken to the Defence Forces conciliation arbitration scheme are dealt with in a timely manner; and his views on the matter. [1465/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the recent revelations of surveillance of telephone calls within the State by GCHQ in Cheltenham, England; if the Defence Forces employ any counter-surveillance measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1466/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 374. To ask the Minister for Defence the resources being deployed and the activities of Defence Forces personnel in Ukraine. [1467/15]