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

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what measures he proposes to reduce the impact of air pollution on the high levels of asthma and COPD in this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50295/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Strategies (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline his Department's road map for assisting the recovery in communities such as Midleton, County Cork, regarding flood relief and climate adaptation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50293/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Supply (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether there should be full transparency in relation to the data on water abstraction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50296/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: We have to.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Its number one supporter and military backer is the US. As a party to the genocide convention with the duty to prevent the crime of genocide, the US should be imposing an arms embargo on Israel. Instead, it has aided and abetted genocide by increasing military assistance to Israel by $14.5 billion since the genocide...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: We are not doing inspections.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [50904/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is another day and we have another devastating report predicting catastrophe for humanity if we continue on the track we are on. The UN environmental programme report on the emissions gap says we are heading for 3°C. It says that by 2030, we will have overshot the carbon budget to give us a 50% chance of avoiding 1.5°C, and then we will keep going. The Secretary General of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [50905/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will read a sentence from the programme for Government, which states "The ambition of this Government is to provide each citizen with accessible and affordable healthcare, housing, education, childcare and disability services". That ambition is not being met. The State is failing fundamentally to meet the rights of many people in this State but in particular, the rights of children with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Would the Taoiseach say the same about the Nazis?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [50906/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Successive Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Governments have reduced our health service to a permanent state of crisis through years of underfunding, privatisation and neoliberal mismanagement. Now, the Government is forcing through a recruitment freeze that will make the crisis even worse. I heard the Taoiseach's reply earlier to Deputy Kenny. He seems to be denying the fact that there is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Has the Taoiseach visited the hospitals? Has he seen the waiting lists? They are getting longer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach accept there is a recruitment freeze?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: He does not even accept there is a recruitment freeze.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I endorse what Deputy Boyd Barrett said.

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Last night, the South African Parliament passed a motion by a large majority to cut all diplomatic ties with Israel and to expel the Israeli ambassador from South Africa. The Dáil should have done that last week. We have another chance to do it this evening and we should take that chance. Instead of doing that last week, what did the Government do? It mobilised and whipped its TDs to...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I mentioned-----

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Did you attempt to go to Gaza?