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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of licences issued to hunt fauna on State-owned foreshore over the past ten years; the number granted to gun clubs and individuals, in Ireland and outside the State; the breakdown of the number of birds killed by species and location; and if he will stop the granting of these licences given that many of the birds...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can apply for carer’s allowance while they are receiving jobseeker’s allowance; what happens to their jobseeker's payment while a decision is being made on the carer's allowance application; if it will be suspended as it will be deemed that they are not available for full-time work; and if their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the partner of a person is receiving half-rate carer’s allowance for their child, how the payments work if their partner is approved for carer's allowance for their parent, if they each have a child dependent on their claim. [20623/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who is granted carer’s allowance is still eligible to complete their final year of a bachelor's degree via Springboard while also caring for the needs of their parent as the course is part-time in the evening. [20624/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise in relation to a person (details supplied) who has been refused invalidity pension and supplementary welfare allowance, given they have been without any payment since December 2022; and how her Department can provide them with the support needed. [20664/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if proposed statutory instruments legislating that euthanasia of a greyhound must only be carried out by a vet have been adopted (details supplied); if he has concerns that Greyhound Racing Ireland's Code of Practice states that non-vets can kill greyhounds for reasons including "the greyhound has behavioural and temperament issues...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of active and inactive greyhounds killed by vets and non-vets in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [20262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds exported, rehomed, retained as pets and that died in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, as recorded on Greyhound Racing Ireland's RCÉTS traceability system. [20263/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 29 March 2023, if the numbers of thoroughbred horse deaths in 2022 (1,874) and to date in 2023 (375) include horses killed in slaughterhouses; and if he will specify the reason for each killing. [20264/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether pharmacies use a different supplier for medical card holders and those who are buying their medications. [20607/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21531/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Included in this grouping is a question about ethics reform. The Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, emerged today and, for the first time, answered some questions about his unethical behaviour, not from Deputies because he refused to do and the Taoiseach shielded him in that decision, but instead from the media. So, for the first time, not on the Dáil record but to the media, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Sure I said "Yes" you said "No", no problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is worth reminding ourselves what is the essence of this. What was being investigated was a massive rip-off and loss for the public to the tune of €118 million written off by IBRC, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, to the benefit of the Denis O'Brien-owned Siteserv. The fundamental conclusion is that the IBRC was misled by Siteserv directors over the transaction. The phrase "tainted...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [21532/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Ireland is now the third country in Europe in the context of the number of European works councils, EWCs, based here. It is a requirement under EU law for major corporations to have councils for, effectively, consultation and discussion with their employees. After Brexit, a substantial number of companies moved their EWCs to this country. Millions of workers, therefore, are affected by how...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not have a problem, and neither do the residents, with masts in and of themselves. They are part of public infrastructure today. We need them for mobile phones and so on, but what people have a problem with is waking up one morning and finding that significant work is happening at the entrance to their estate. A 2 m high platform has been erected, upon which a 20 m high mast is going...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for the response but unfortunately it did not answer the questions. Therefore, I will go again. Is it the case that where An Bord Pleanála is considering an appeal, the company has to stop? Alternatively, can it continue? That is a very simple question. The written response circulated, which I think the Minister of State did not read out, states: "With...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will start with where I agree with the Deputies of the Rural Independent Group. I agree with the fact that, despite years of promises and lip service, the Government has consistently failed to tackle the housing crisis effectively, leaving it scrambling to react to a situation that has now spun out of control; and with the fact that Ireland's housing crisis is currently the worst in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: For over a year, workers have been suffering from this cost-of-living crisis. Unite the Union conducted research which suggests that the average worker has lost €76 per week in real terms. The average family is now paying more than €1,000 extra per year on fuel, more than €1,000 extra per year on electricity and more than €1,000 extra per year on groceries. They...