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Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: He said he was going to answer. He said it just two minutes ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach guarantee they were just doing de-mining training?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is deliberately holding onto the question and he avoided all of them, and instead we got just bluff and nonsense.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [57885/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The strategy refers to the need for citizen-focused communication. In that context I raise the case of Frank Mulcahy. As the Taoiseach will know, he was the CEO of Irish Small and Medium Employers and a victim of an incredible campaign to blacken his name by people wrongly suggesting that he was involved in fraud. The Taoiseach was the Minister in the relevant Department at the time. He...

Toll Charge Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The proposed increase in tolls is just the latest part of a highway robbery that is being carried out by the private operators in this country. This highway robbery is facilitated by the Government and by Fianna Fáil, historically, which developed this whole notion of public private partnerships, PPP. The robbery continues apace. The Government indicated it is going to pay to put off...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on making the back-to-education allowance available to persons more than once, for instance, for women returning to the workplace after carrying out caring responsibilities. [59275/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is concerned about the impact of the rising cost of living on child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59276/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing a dedicated exceptional needs’ payment for costs related to persons fleeing domestic violence in a similar manner as has been done with rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59273/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is concerned at the level of fuel poverty this winter in spite of the additional one-off payments made available by the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59274/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action that the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities proposes to take against gas companies which disconnect a vulnerable customer, (details supplied), given the moratorium on disconnections. [59044/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 8 September 2022 supplied by the NTA (details supplied), if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there have been no improvements to the Number 76-bus route; and if he will pursue this issue with the NTA and ensure that the improvements promised are made. [58855/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on introducing a ban on car advertising and sponsorship. [59049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the repeated failures of Dublin Bus buses to turn up; if he agrees that driver shortages are the key factor driving it; and the action that he is taking to resolve it. [59477/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 676. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 vaccine for babies and children under five years will be made available in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59050/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have a point of order.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday during Taoiseach's Questions, the Taoiseach said that People Before Profit-Solidarity Deputies were "puppets" for Putin's regime. I believe this to be an abuse of privilege and disorderly. It is a very serious allegation for a Taoiseach to make about Opposition Members of Parliament that they are agents of a foreign state, particularly a state like Russia.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am asking for the remark to be withdrawn in light of People Before Profit's very consistent record of opposition to Putin, the fact it is our co-thinkers who are in prison in Russia for opposing Putin's invasion of Ukraine and, while Bertie Ahern was shaking hands with Putin-----