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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms MacEvilly.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to give a complete overview of the process that the US military must follow when moving personnel through Irish Airports on US Military aircraft transiting through Irish airports since January 2022. [50105/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a record of all US Military flights that have passed through Shannon Airport since the beginning of October 2023. [50106/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to give a detailed account of all oversight procedures implemented by his Department, other Government Departments and/or the Irish Aviation Authority on flights granted exemptions for the carriage of munitions of war, weapons and dangerous goods through Irish airports (inspections of aircraft, inspections of manifests, Garda deployment,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a record of all exemptions provided to carry weapons and munitions of war through Irish ports and airports since January 2022. [50104/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a record of all US Military contracted flights that have passed through Shannon Airport since the beginning of October 2023 [50106/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to give a complete overview of the process that the US military must follow when moving personnel through Irish Airports on US Military chartered flights and to provide any/all records of US personnel transiting through Irish airports since January 2022 [50105/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, in tabular form, the NEPS areas across the country, and the number of psychologists appointed to each. [50043/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he supports taking waste collection back into public ownership to ensure better environmental management of waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50236/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: The decision to privatise the bin service and charge for all forms of waste management, including recycling and composting, has been an unmitigated disaster from an environmental and cost-of-living standpoint. Will the Minister now commit to legislation to take waste collection back into public ownership?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not know if anyone has told the Minister this before, but he is in the Government so he can change the law. There is a majority in the Dáil. It can never be an answer to a question to say something cannot be done because it is not in the law. Evidently, the law can be changed and it needs to be changed to provide for public ownership and the re-municipalisation of waste...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I am not sure if the Minister agrees or disagrees that the privatisation of waste collection has been a disaster. It has been a disaster for households faced with bills that go up and up, north of €300 now, while the likes of Greyhound, Panda and City Bin are making millions of euro in profits and are domiciled offshore so that they do not have to pay any tax on it. It has also been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: A third of households do not have brown bins.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: The State and the Government are failing children with additional needs very badly. They are failing those on the long waiting lists for an assessment of needs and for therapies and those who are seeking to access education. I want to raise one particular case, that of a young man called Tadhg who is 11 years old. He is in sixth class in primary school and is looking forward to going to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Taoiseach in relation to their promotion of beef exports to South Korea and to state whether he thinks prompting beef exports to South Korea is compatible with reducing emissions from agriculture under the Climate Action Plan; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline what increases in emissions reduction targets will be included in the next Climate Action Plan, given the failure to reach previous years' targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50289/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline he and his Department's engagement with the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform regarding the Climate, Infrastructure and Nature Fund announced in Budget 2024; how that fund could be used to ramp up annual climate adaptation projects nationally; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Negotiations (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline his Government's aims, goals and targets for the upcoming COP28 negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50291/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Negotiations (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on Ireland's position on the Loss and Damage Fund, which will be discussed at COP28; if Ireland will commit at least €500 million in new money, in the form of grants, to a Loss and Damage Fund at COP28; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Negotiations (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on his engagement with his counterparts in the EU and other international governments ahead of the COP28 negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50294/23]