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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options for HAP recipients who have exceptional medical needs but are not eligible for the 35% discretionary top-up; and if there is a right of appeal or any other mechanism for requesting additional support. [15073/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way local authorities are held accountable for their decisions regarding HAP recipients with exceptional medical needs; and if there is any oversight or monitoring of these decisions to ensure that they are fair, transparent, and consistent across different local authorities. [15074/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide examples of best practices for supporting HAP recipients with exceptional medical needs, including the provision of top-ups and other forms of support. [15075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (28 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the campaign to save the existing grounds of Bessborough House, the former mother and baby institution, from development; if he will ensure there is a thorough forensic investigation on the grounds to establish the presence of a mass grave there; if he will ensure a director of authorised...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate an incident involving members of a fox hunt at Hore Abbey, a national monument managed by the national monuments service division of his Department (details supplied); if this constituted trespass; if any damage was caused to the site; and if he will take action to keep hunters away from national monument sites....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what provision is being made within the tenant in situ scheme for tenants who are renting a HAP property in one local authority area but receive HAP from, and are therefore on the social housing transfer list with, a different local authority; if he will delay the lifting of the eviction ban until workable solutions are found...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Sports Facilities (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will implement legislation that makes it compulsory for all pools or gyms with pools to provide access days or times for those with low incomes and people with disabilities who are on welfare payments where they are offered a reduced rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15538/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if cats, including feral cats, are protected in Ireland; if he is aware that members of gun clubs are allegedly shooting cats; and the action he will take to stop this killing of cats. [15618/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 760 of 31 January 2023, the total number of horse deaths associated with racing in 2022 and to date in 2023, to include not only horses killed at racecourses but also horses used in racing and later killed elsewhere, with a breakdown of the reasons for the killings. [15619/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 862 of 28 September 2021, if live pigs have been exported from Ireland to China; and if, given the related animal cruelty concerns, he will scrap the plan to export pigs to China. [15620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pigs slaughtered in Ireland in 2022; the methods of slaughter used; the number that were slaughtered by gassing; and if will consider banning the latter given the distress and suffering it causes to pigs in the final minutes of their lives. [15621/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate an incident at Curraheen Park track on 18 March 2023 (details supplied), involving a malfunction of the traps; if any greyhounds suffered injuries in the incident; and if the greyhounds were removed from the traps and checked for injuries before the restart of the race. [15622/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (29 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been taken by Greyhound Racing Ireland to permanently close Youghal track (details supplied); and if he is aware that the average per-race attendance last year by paying members of the public was just 16, and that the track was the worst in the country in 2022 for the total number of greyhounds killed at race...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: At the centre of Joe Biden's speech to the House last week was talk of a new cold war, in reality, pitching that the key struggle in the world is between democracy and autocracy. However, he failed to mention that the US provides military support to the majority of dictatorships in the world. Really the idea is to have a US-led NATO in the West against the east of China, Russia and their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: He is a politician, not a celebrity.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I ask about libraries. They have become the new target of far-right activists who have been going into libraries, removing any books that refer to LGBTQ+ people in any sort of positive light and abusing staff by calling them paedophiles, groomers and so on. This is obviously reminiscent of the book burnings carried out by the Nazis. One of the worrying parts of this is how the State has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I wonder whether there will be any policy development in relation to the role of gardaí at evictions. There was a huge controversy over the art of Spicebag and his perfectly reasonable depiction of an eviction, over which members of the political and media establishment lost all sense of reason in generating their own outrage about it. Incidentally, Spicebag will be coming to the rally...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: Palestine.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: The main process that is taking place across Europe, which is reflected in the council conclusions, is a process of rapid and dangerous militarisation under the leadership of US imperialism. It is a process that has different aspects and national specifics but it is heading in the same direction in all countries. For example, Germany is massively increasing its military spending, Finland...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is over three months since the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, announced a 100% redress scheme for apartment and duplex owners affected by defects. At the time he said emergency funding would be made available this year, but there is still no indication as to how one can apply for emergency funding, what kind of scheme that is going to be based on and no progress on the details of the...