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Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: So why is the Government ending it?

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Do not treat people like that. Reducing the payment to €38.80 a week; the Minister is a disgrace.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take a stance against Pakistan's actions and explore avenues such as sanctions to halt the ongoing war crimes in occupied Balochistan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3935/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: European Union (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of a report in which the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change said the EU’s policies will need revising to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 (details supplied); his views on whether the EU should stop subsidising fossil fuels and to redirect such spending towards targeted actions...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise on the process to follow when a person has made a complaint to the National Transport Authority and there has been no resolution offered or action taken to resolve this complaint; if there is an authority the person can report the NTA to for their poor handling of the complaint process; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the recent decision not to release funds that would allow teachers in Ireland who have taught in secondary schools outside the EU to move up the incremental pay scale, if she will reconsider this decision and take immediate action to rectify this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to the issue of no HEPA filters in Irish classrooms despite the €62 million announcement by her in December 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4197/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will acknowledge that the 10% stamp duty on investment funds purchasing homes in bulk has not deterred investment funds; if he will take immediate action to implement a ban on property purchases by investment funds, which is exacerbating the housing crisis; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct his Department to intervene in the case of the 28 houses completed in an estate (details supplied) to ensure the properties are not sold to investment funds. [4180/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Oireachtas Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to comments made by the Secretary General of her Department at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) (details supplied), to correct the record with the PAC that sample/test cases were and are used to ensure that the same conclusion is reached in cases, contrary to the erroneous information given to the PAC. [3952/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delayed decision on a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide inspection reports from 2019 to the present day for a company (details supplied). [4161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a decision (details supplied) by Tusla relating to a crèche can be appealed. [4234/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Inquiries (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide definitive information on the establishment of a promised inquiry into sodium valproate; when a chair will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4156/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Regulatory Bodies (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HPRA to investigate and provide an outcome for a complaint submitted about First IVF Clane and if he will make a statement about the investigation conducted into First IVF Clane. [4209/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [4023/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the method used to calculate passenger numbers at Dublin Airport and if he will take action to ensure that the airport remains within the passenger cap. [4820/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: It was revealed last weekend in The Irish Timesthat the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, is cooking the books in terms of the numbers of passengers going through the airport and, in reality, is breaching the passenger cap. If all passengers going through the airport were properly counted, the airport would have breached the 32 million passengers per annum cap by more than 1 million. What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I raised this with the Minister, and I had the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers answer me, on 30 November. The Minister of State assured me then that "the CEO of the DAA has confirmed that, until planning permission ... is granted, it will continue to manage passenger capacity ... to ensure this planning condition [of 32 million] is not breached." DAA is breaching it. It is in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Dublin Airport Authority (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: The DAA has provided the methodology all right and the methodology says we are cooking the books. The Minister of State is telling me that the Government and a Department led by a Green Minister does not mind and says that it is nothing to do with them. Are private jet customers included? Are they included in the figure that keeps under 32 million cap the 31.9 million figure which DAA...