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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is an absolute scandal that more than 4,000 children in this country are homeless. All of those cases are unnecessary or avoidable. I will give a current example of a child who is facing homelessness in an extraordinarily avoidable situation. The child, her father and his partner - the child's mother - live in an apartment in Tallaght. I first met them well over a year ago. They had a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It has now been two years since the Government received the report into the scale of defects in apartments and duplexes, revealing that a majority of the properties built between 1991 and 2013 were likely affected. There may be up to 100,000 apartments and duplexes whose owners face an average cost, which is probably increased since, of €25,000 to repair. It has been a year and a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [27044/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [25449/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I want to show the Taoiseach some pictures and I can send them to him. I have a picture here of a series of staples and nails and similarly in this photograph. This is meant to be a picture of the cremated remains of an individual, a guy called Johnny Fox. There are quite a number of staples, nails and screws in his cremated remains. Johnny Fox was the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank both groups for coming in. I will start with Ms Jammet, if I could. She has said that Ireland is not good on this front compared with other countries in Europe. We have one of the lowest rates of circular material use. Why is that the case? Why are we worse than the EU average?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: In her opening remarks, Ms Jammet mentioned the need for these circularity principles to be integrated into planning. That includes, for example, pre-demolition audits on larger projects. That makes sense to me. I agree with the point that Senator Dooley was getting at, that if it is not in planning regulations then the tendency and incentive will be for the lowest costs to be taken, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is not related to public or private, but simply the size of the project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The environment does not care whether it is done by the public sector or private sector. Is that fair to say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I have a final question and then will go to CIF. A big issue here is vacant properties. They already exist and have a lot of embodied carbon. Even if they are in bad condition, full retrofits are still a fraction of the cost of building new properties. What is the main obstacle, as Ms Jammet sees it, to bringing vacant properties into use, which will obviously significantly reduce...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will now turn to the CIF. Do the witnesses broadly agree with the recommendations being made in terms of planning about pre-demolition audits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Fitzpatrick says CIF is broadly in favour of a more circular approach to the construction industry. The CIF lobbies the Government a lot. Is this something it has lobbied for over the past year or in recent years? I refer to an increase in standards and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: To ask the question again, in all of the Construction Industry Federation's lobbying of the Government, has it lobbied in favour of increased standards in service of environmental standards for building in terms of circularity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It seems to me that the Construction Industry Federation is coming before the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action and saying it is all for circulatory but in terms of its engagements with the Government, I think the witness said the Construction Industry Federation has never lobbied for increased standards. When I asked about increased standards, the representatives immediately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It has come out here that the difference is that when we got the actual points, they gave out about overregulation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: We did not even hear-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: They would have previously lobbied against it. I agree; we are in here in good faith and I am engaging in good faith with them. I am interested in the response.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a greyhound (details supplied) was racing at Curraheen greyhound track on 15 June 2024 while the greyhound is owned by an English-based, highly publicised syndicate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 414. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 11 June 2024, if he will outline, given the National Gender Service was unable to share how much of its clinical staff's time is spent on assessment, how it ensured its outstanding business cases had an appropriate balance of clinical roles. [27904/24]