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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Levels (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she anticipates that poverty among people with disabilities in this country will be ended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46430/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he supports adding additional or express services on the 15-bus route in the mornings to address overcrowding issues in the Knocklyon area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46059/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that roughly 2,260 CIÉ retired salaried staff have not received a pension increase since 2008; if he will ensure that the board of CIÉ assign adequate funds to the CIÉ Superannuation Scheme 1951 to pay increases to CIÉ pensioners in line with the-cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Legal Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on legal advice and/or legal representation between 2015 to date, broken down on an annual basis. [46136/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether sufficient funding has been provided in Budget 2024 for the redress schemes for apartment and duplex defects and for Mica and Pyrite. [46629/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether in situations where apartment or duplex complexes affected by defects receive offers from developers to address redress, he will outline how they will be affected in terms of eligibility for the future redress scheme, in circumstances where the developers’ payments do not cover all of the necessary work and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if only DEIS schools are included in the 600 new meals programme outlined in Budget 2024. [46254/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether an external review into the discrepancies identified in accounts of the IHRB (details supplied) will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46677/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: Last week I hosted a meeting in Tallaght for parents of children with disabilities and additional needs. We had campaigners, activists and lawyers present. The room was packed with parents telling heartbreaking stories: stories of being on long waiting lists for assessments of need, stories of waiting more than a year for therapies, stories of waiting for mental health supports, stories of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the State apologies issued by Taoisigh in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [43880/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I raise the scandal of historical child sex abuse at St. John Ambulance. It is now more than seven months since Dr. Shannon's utterly damning report. It found that a past culture had facilitated the potential grooming of children and that the organisation had failed to intervene despite the knowledge that boys were at risk of abuse. It concluded that the organisation had failed to act...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: What is the Government doing to ensure that asylum seekers who are here and staying in State provided accommodation are safe? I understand that a new accommodation centre was opened in west Donegal recently. There are people there who have fled horrific wars in Syria and Libya, as well as some Palestinians. They have been subjected to physical threats. There have been threats to attack...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Political Community meeting in Granada, Spain. [46436/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: On 19 October last year, President von der Leyen made a speech in the European Parliament where she said: "Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror. And we have to call it as such.” Then when Israel began to do...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: Or by the Irish State in the foundation of the State.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has blood on her hands. She has the blood of over 6,500 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and bombardment over the past two weeks on her hands. She has the blood of over 2,700 children on her hands. She should resign, and if the Government seriously represented justice, peace and opposition to genocide,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 517. To ask the Minister for Health whether the spring being removed from the patients at Temple Street (details supplied) will be retained, in order that it can be analysed as part of the external review. [46135/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 543. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to dental treatment available for children in Tallaght, Dublin 24, if the HSE Old County Road clinic only deals with dental emergencies now; if so, where children living in Tallaght can get their dental check-ups (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46289/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a call by an organisation (details supplied) for the development and implementation of a national strategy to reduce epilepsy-related deaths; if he will action this strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 617. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 573 of 10 October 2023, if the external review will include operations carried out on adults at Cappagh Hospital. [46676/23]