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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Contracts (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 406. To ask the Minister for Defence if Defence Forces personnel on exchange with the United Kingdom defence forces, as per the Memorandum of Understanding signed recently with the United Kingdom, may participate in overseas missions that have not been approved by Dáil Éireann, in conditions additional to the current circumstances where overseas deployments of not more...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Contracts (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 407. To ask the Minister for Defence the legal conditions under which Defence Forces personnel on exchange with the British military, as per the Memorandum of Understanding recently signed with the United Kingdom, will operate, that is, if they will be subject to the normal laws and regulations governing the overseas deployment and military operations of the Irish Defence Forces, or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 580. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 525 of 14 January 2015 and subsequent correspondence (details supplied) detailing the absence of a lack of reply from the Health Service Executive concerning the treatment of a person, his views on the procedure of referring parliamentary questions to the executive for direct reply; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 682. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake a full audit of brain injury services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11843/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 683. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the shortage of beds in specialist neurosurgical centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11844/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 713. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a complaint made in respect of hospital care provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12032/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 742. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's policy and procedures in dealing with passport applications of adults with reduced decision making capacity. [11683/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 746. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the political developments in Israel following the recent general election; his further views on the impact of the election results on the prospects for the recognition of the State of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11950/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the negotiations and discussions that have taken place at a local level between local management and local trade union representatives in Dublin Institute of Technology, Tallaght Institute of Technology and Blanchardstown Institute of Technology, in respect of the proposed merger of these three institutes and the anticipated change in their...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (24 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: 987. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the dangers of head injuries, his views on the compulsory use of helmets by cyclists on public roads; if he will promote the use of helmets by cyclists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11845/15]

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall and that is the situation facing the Government. It is in that moment between pride and a fall. Faced with a huge protest on Saturday and the prospect of a massive boycott, all talk of listening has been forgotten and replaced by a high-handed, arrogant and bullying approach. The Minister for the Environment, Community and...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will finish on this point. Was Elizabeth Arnett of Irish Water not correct when she said this morning that there would be no penalties in the case of the first four bills? People can, therefore, refuse to pay, without penalty until after the next general election. They can join the group that will bin their bills outside the Dáil on 18 April. This campaign will sink water charges,...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach says the promised Bill will be introduced in the next few weeks. On 3 February he told us it would be published "in the next couple of weeks". The next time we raise the issue will we be told that it will be introduced in the next couple of months and then the next few months? This is a Bill that never appears because the Government wants to use it to scare people, but the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: How many have signed up? The only consistent message we hear is that lots of people have signed up. On Monday morning the Minister told us that 1.23 million had signed up, an increase of 130,000 in the past four weeks. Last night we heard the figure of 1.23 million, which was an increase of 120,000 in the past seven weeks. The Government's motion refers to a figure of 1.237 million...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: What are the accurate figures? My final supplementary question is-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: I do. I also understand-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: I will put my question. What consolation prize is the Taoiseach going to give the Labour Party for enthusiastically hammering the final nails in its coffin? Will the party take the chance? Will the Taoiseach take the chance of voting for the Private Members' motion by the anti-austerity alliance tonight to abolish water charges?

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: We have here a proposal from Government, originating from the Constitutional Convention, for involving young people in politics. The Government is able to find the time and the space for a referendum on this issue but has refused to provide a referendum for the much more urgently needed repeal of the barbaric eighth amendment of the Constitution. We will vote in favour of this referendum...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: The point is that the Government-----

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Paul Murphy: -----is not interested in dealing with young people. With regard to the Bill, the notion Deputy Mitchell put forward that Irish people can lose the run of themselves by electing a 21 year old President - the idea that the worst thing that could possibly befall the State is that the people in a democracy would elect somebody who happened to be 21 rather than 35 or older - is bizarre. The...