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Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is important that we are discussing this and I thank the Regional Group for bringing the motion forward. This is a huge issue. It is not discussed enough and it will become an even bigger issue. As the motion notes, there are likely to be well over 300,000 adults in the State who are suffering or have suffered from medical conditions associated with long Covid, based on an extrapolation...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I was listening to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, when I was upstairs in my office. It was like watching "Reeling in the Years". It was all the old hits - all the old propaganda about how the Government is committed to public ownership of water. He reeled out the line that we should not worry as there cannot possibly be any privatisation of Irish Water because it is in the Water...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: We are here because of a request from the Deputy regarding the need for a referendum on water. We have been told that the Minister, Darragh O'Brien, looks forward to definitively addressing the referendum in the near future. That is great. We are having a debate about the future of water services now. We have had repeated commitments to hold a referendum, yet here we are having a debate...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 14 September 2022, if he will provide an update on the meeting between the Commission and the Government that was due to take place in September 2022, on the letter of notice concerning the Transnational Information and Consultation Act 2006; if he will publish all correspondence between...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will seek an urgent implementation of the Private Members’ Motion passed by Dáil Éireann in November 2016 which sets out an action plan enabling the sustainability of the post office network; his views on this need for urgency given that Ireland is facing 200 post office closures from January...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 25 October 2022, if he will confirm the person or body that are the stakeholders mentioned. [55049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether in order to encourage the public to stop using their cars for environmental reasons, there must be a high quality public transport system in place; the measures being taken by his Department to improve public transport in an area (details supplied) currently; and the plans for the medium to long-term. [55295/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Environmental Impact Assessments (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will condemn the action that has been taken for the preliminary stages of construction in relation to Ardee bog and the lack of environmental impact assessment of the proposed Ardee bypass that cuts through this bog; if he will ensure that an environmental impact assessment is carried out, halting any further work until it is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of data centres that will benefit from the temporary business energy support scheme; and if they will be included in the reported potential extension of the scheme past February 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports (details supplied) that average private rent prices have almost doubled since 2012; if the RTB has investigated whether this is permitted, given the implementation of rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55243/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 449. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will seek an investigation into the disappearance of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54863/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Defence Forces (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 456. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views in relation to reports that this Deputy’s office has received from County Donegal of USAF planes and other NATO aircraft that pass over Ireland heading west to east and east to west; the frequency with which these aircraft are using Irish airspace; the purpose of the journeys; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 461. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government’s position in relation to the need for a UN binding treaty on business and human rights, in order to tackle corporate impunity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55263/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ukraine War (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 481. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 356 of 25 October 2022, the locations within Brussels and Ramstein that those meetings took place. [54675/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will make family-tracing funds available to survivors of industrial schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55031/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to educational psychologist trainees, if her attention has been drawn to concerns raised by students in relation to the working group which does not include any course co-ordinators from either Mary Immaculate College or UCD or persons from the Department of Health; if she will ensure the working group is broadened to include these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the double week cost-of-living support payment to those on illness benefit; if not, the reason; and the reason that there has been no additional support for those on illness benefit. [54836/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 693. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a paper written by an organisation (details supplied) which outlines the evidence of the persistently high rates of poverty and deprivation among one-parent families; if she will implement the recommendations made as per the paper; her views on the reason that one-parent families are among the worst off...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the remuneration package currently on the table for the Supervisor and Assistant Supervisor of a centre (details supplied). [55030/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 25 October 2022, the reason a person (details supplied) was told ‘there are no community welfare appointments in Tallaght since 2020’ as this is contradictory to the reply she provided. [55054/22]