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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the criticisms raised about animal welfare in China, what procedures his Department has taken to ensure the safety of thoroughbred horses, particularly in the context of the announcement that racing is to cease in Macau in April (details supplied). [9002/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a detailed breakdown of all Irish horses exported to China, Hong Kong and Korea, by year (details supplied). [9003/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1284 of 17 January 2024, received from HRI if he will instruct HRI to provide a breakdown of the ages of the horses sent to slaughter. [9004/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (28 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that Ireland imported €5.08 billion of goods from Israel in 2022 and €2.15 billion worth in 2021 (details supplied), yet in 2020, imports were only €138 million, which was par for the course on previous years; what precipitated the jump in trade after 2020; and as a significant trading partner...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Optional Protocol for the UN Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities will be ratified within the term of this Government; if so, when it will be ratified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9518/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase childcare places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9519/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who are currently the subject of a High Court order placing them in special care in accordance with the Child Care Act 1991, who are not in special care due to the absence of an available bed; whether private agency staff can be utilised to staff the beds that are not currently open; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of agency staff currently employed to work in special care under the Child Care Act 1991; the hourly rates of pay offered to agency staff to work in special care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9824/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Health whether the due diligence on therapists offered positions in the HSE is being outsourced to a private company; how long the average wait is from the time of application to completion of due diligence; how much the private company is being paid; whether there was a tender process for this company; and the reason the HSE is not itself verifying the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: This morning, I went to a screening organised by the National Animal Rights Association and Animal Rebellion Ireland. It contained footage taken from two randomly selected pig farms in Ireland and it was extremely harrowing. These are very smart, sentient animals. They have no daylight or comfortable bedding. They have no space. They are massively crammed together in farrowing crates,...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ban advertising of fossil fuels and fossil fuelled vehicles, including commercial sponsorship, by corporate entities and to establish a Fossil Fuel Information Commission for the purposes of product and price comparisons by the public. I am introducing this Bill today as a small step in combating the climate catastrophe...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [9320/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I do not know if the Taoiseach knows the post office in The Square in Tallaght. It is extraordinarily busy whenever you go there, and it is more than just a post office. It is a community hub for many people, where workers are extremely helpful to those who are coming in, advising them on what to do and so on. Those workers, and those who use the service, are faced with that post office...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [9321/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise again the huge hikes in childcare fees happening in crèches. Management personnel in many crèches are saying that they cannot afford to stay in the core funding programme any more, and are massively hiking their prices as a result. I have spoken to the Taoiseach previously about Chuckleberries crèche in Firhouse, where fees are being increased by an incredible...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9322/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about a pretty pressing issue for underfunded community drugs projects, namely, the extortionate cost of insurance. I will give a couple of examples from Tallaght to show just what an impact this is having. One project was paying €2,500 six years ago for insurance. That increased to just over €6,000 three years ago. For 2023, the insurance company wanted...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development with regard to her responsibility for Water Safety Ireland what measures she intends to take to reduce the number of drownings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10747/24]

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: It will be about three minutes and five minutes. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. We agree with a lot of what is in the motion, including better security for tenants, compulsory purchase of vacant and derelict buildings by local authorities, and bigger housing targets. The only thing is that it is a shame the Labour Party did not do any of that when it was in...