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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 759. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of thoroughbred foals born in 2022; the number registered to race on the track; the number of horses exiting racing over the same period; and the number of same that were sent to slaughter. [4008/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses injured and killed in horse racing, horse training, point-to-point racing and show jumping in 2022, by racecourse in tabular form; and the names of the horses and the nature of their injuries. [4009/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid out by Horse Racing Ireland to hunts in the past ten years in point-to-point racing grants and any other funding and if he will stop this, given that the money is propping up hunt clubs which are involved in bloodsports which the majority of people want banned. [4010/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request an update from Horse Racing Ireland regarding horse deaths at a racecourse (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4077/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: We have a very impressive display of workers' power in Britain today, the largest co-ordinated strike action in more than a decade, with teachers, train drivers, civil servants and many others withdrawing their labour. In the North, UCU members working in higher education are on strike, a strike that is about pay and the investment in the future of higher education. The workers have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he is intending to establish new Cabinet subcommittees. [3078/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday it was elderly people in nursing homes while today it is people with disabilities living in institutional care centres - another day, another scandal involving the conscious abuse of State power to defraud the most vulnerable people. Rather than caring for these people as the State is legally obliged to, a decision was repeatedly taken at the highest level to rip them off. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent phone call with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [4427/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach have any concerns about the largest weapons transfer in history being made by NATO forces into Ukraine? This escalated in the past week in the decision to send heavy tanks in the form of M1 Abrams from the US and Leopard 2 tanks from Germany and other European countries. Precisely as Deputy Boyd Barrett indicated, the logic of this is to have further and further...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [3076/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The only good thing about Davos is the fact that Oxfam produces this report on a yearly basis to highlight the galloping inequality in the world, which has accelerated throughout the process of Covid when some big corporations made massive profits. The consequence of that galloping inequality is that in Ireland, the two richest people now have as much wealth - €15 billion - as the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is because we are a tax haven.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing issues with the 76-bus route (details supplied); the plans his Department has in place to fix these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5116/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 296. To ask the Minister for Health following the failure to bring in the GP card for children of ages six and seven years as promised in 2022, if he will provide an update in relation to this; and if he will ensure that this is introduced as a matter of urgency. [5114/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: There was no problem finding money for the banks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: No problem at all.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: This Saturday at 1 p.m., there will be a gathering at the Dublin City Council buildings on Wood Quay of families who are facing mass eviction. Those in Tathony House and those on Rathmines Road are coming together. They will be supported by Peter McVerry and they are calling on supporters across the city to come and rally with them. Their clear message is that they should not be made...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: We know that. That is the problem.

Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: We know that. That is the problem.

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: People Before Profit will not be supporting this Bill. We are opposed to any attempt to use the current crises, including the growth of quite horrifying anti-refugee protests, influenced by racist and far-right ideas, as an excuse to add another layer to the powers and scope of policing in this State. I listened to the Minister and most of the Opposition speakers express broad support for...