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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his Department’s engagement with the European Commission in relation to shortcomings identified by the Commission in Ireland’s enforcement of workers’ rights under the Directive on European Works Councils; the action that he intends to take in this regard; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the progress made in implementing and inspecting air quality standards in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45104/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Insurance Coverage (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that she is taking to address the cost of insurance for community organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide community organisations with funding for the cost of compliance and streamline regulatory and funding-related compliance requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will mainstream multi-annual funding and ensure adequate long-term funding levels are provided for community services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the increase in funding that she will provide for services and supports for community and voluntary organisations to enable them to address the recruitment and retention crisis in the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45132/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of adding an additional 1,000 level 8 places at third level. [45282/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of adding an additional 1,000 level 6 and level 7 places at third level. [45283/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of adding an additional 250 nursing and midwifery undergraduate places. [45290/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government appears to be making a habit of attending NATO meetings and meetings of NATO allies. I do not believe it is an accident at all, but part of a conscious drive to integrate this country with a process of militarisation led by US imperialism. I asked last week whether the State was represented at the fifth so-called Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting, which happened in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: How much is the Government increasing the military budget by?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government is trying to do it now. It is playing catch-up now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Tell that to the people in the Middle East.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have been at protests outside the Russian Embassy and I did not see the Taoiseach there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Can I just get one word in?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: From the start of Putin's horrendous invasion of Ukraine, we have raised the need for the State to call clearly for debt cancellation as a significant act of solidarity with the Ukrainian people. We tabled a motion in the Dáil to that effect, pointing out that, annually, 12% of all Ukrainian state budgetary income is currently going on debt repayments and that that was utterly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [44841/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is almost two months since the Government received the report from the working group to examine defects in housing. That report is extremely stark in terms of the situation it sets out with regard to defects, primarily fire defects in apartments and duplexes. The report states: "The Working Group estimates that of apartments and duplexes (or associated common areas) constructed between...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: So what? The State could buy the houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Why not?