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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason threatened, red-listed birds of high conservation concern are included in the latest open season order; and if he will remove them from the order. [44273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with special needs living in south-western areas of Dublin; the number of therapists working in the area to provide essential services for these children; his plans to ensure that these services which are crucial for the families of these children will resume to pre-Covid-19 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the way consultants and surgeons triage a patient for surgery in relation to elective surgeries; and the location in which this is recorded. [44249/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the body or agency in which waiting lists of patients who are pending surgeries are recorded in relation to elective surgeries. [44250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Admissions (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 271. To ask the Minister for Health the way consultants and surgeons communicate with the admissions office in relation to elective surgeries regarding patients and waiting lists changes. [44251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of paid views registered on Greyhound Racing Ireland's pay-per-view online channel (details supplied) by week, track and country of viewer since its launch in March 2021; and the associated revenue generated and the cost of running the channel. [44275/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses injured and that died or were killed at Galway Racecourse to date in 2021; if an investigation will be carried out into the high level of fatalities; and if consideration will be given to ending State funding to Horse Racing Ireland in view of the growing number of horse deaths. [44276/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Question Heading for question(s) 313 (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the direct or indirect funding provided to an organisation and a publication (details supplied) in the past ten years up to September 2021. [44277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will stop Horse Racing Ireland's major financial supports to foxhunting groups for point-to-point races of more than €10 million since 2001 given that this funding is sustaining foxhunts whose hunting activities are opposed by a majority of citizens due to the animal cruelty involved. [44278/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of culled badgers that are tested for TB; the number of badger post-mortems for TB that have been carried out by county in each of the past ten years; and the number of badgers that tested positive and negative, respectively for TB. [44279/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers vaccinated and culled in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will immediately end the cull in view of the findings of his Department funded study which concluded that vaccination could be a highly effective means of reducing the incidence of tuberculosis in badger populations. [44308/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Not agreed. It is almost three weeks since the Government launched its Housing for All plan. The Dáil did not debate it last week and we will not debate it this week. It is inappropriate that the Government gets to launch its plan with great fanfare and talk of 300,000 homes by the end of 2030, the majority of which are simply estimates of what private developers will build, without...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: -----in the context of inflation. We need to have a debate in the House.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Earlier, my colleague, Deputy Barry, raised the horrific treatment by Aer Lingus of its workers. Unfortunately, they are not the only group of workers within aviation facing severe attacks on their terms and conditions. The management of Dublin Airport Authority took advantage of the pandemic to ram through a series of attacks on workers' terms and conditions and to undermine them. The...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will share time with Deputy Barry. The sorry saga of this special deal for property owners and developers tells a very important truth about the nature of the housing crisis. We do not have a housing crisis just because no one has figured out what to do to resolve it. 7 o’clock If you go out onto the street and campaign on the issue of housing, the average person that you meet...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: For over a year, Debenhams workers waged a heroic struggle against the loss of their jobs and their treatment by their employer. In many respects, their struggle epitomised the treatment of some workers by some employers in the course of the pandemic. Yesterday, the Government announced that employees who had lost their job during Covid would now be able to seek redundancy and it announced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Chairman and the Minister. He was at pains to emphasise that companies can currently take states to court for discriminatory measures and so on. I agree that is an accurate summation of the current law. Why then is it that corporations need to have access to parallel justice mechanisms? Why can they not just pursue issues through the national courts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is a parallel justice system just for corporations. The Minister was explicit and said repeatedly that the only basis on which a Canadian company could sue the State in the ICS is if it was discriminated against. I would like him to clarify that. Is that his position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Minister stated on a couple of occasions the only way companies could sue is if they were discriminated against. He now accepts that is not the case. They would not have to be discriminated against on the basis of not being European to access the ICS and potentially win against the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: In the Minister's opening statement, which we do not have before us, he repeatedly stated that it would only be on the basis of discrimination but that is not the case. According to Article 8.12 of CETA: A Party shall not nationalise or expropriate a covered investment either directly, or indirectly [and indirectly basically involves any sort of regulations that interfere with the right to...