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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that local authorities are aligned with the national and his Department's guidelines and interpretations of the housing adaptation grant to prevent discrepancies and confusion among applicants without referring this matter back as a decision for local authorities. [11279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which properties are assessed and categorised by local authorities like SDCC for families with specific medical and accessibility needs; and the oversight that is in place to ensure these categorisations are accurately applied and communicated. [11280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in cases where discrepancies arise between initial assessments and subsequent communications from local authority personnel (details supplied), the mechanisms that are in place for families to seek review or appeal these decisions to ensure their homes are made suitable for their needs without undue delay or confusion. [11281/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the responsibilities and accountability within local authorities for ensuring that properties allocated as medical relets meet the requisite standards and adaptations as promised to families with disabled members. [11282/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the redress scheme to include all those who spent time in a mother and baby institution or county home; if he will consider making an enhanced medical card available to all survivors, extend the scheme to anyone abused in a 'boarding out'/adoptive placement or abused through forced labour,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 352. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the funding crisis facing the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme (UMAAP) currently delivered via ADHD Ireland and the recent decision by the HSE to withdraw funding for UMAAP in 2024; and if he will instruct the HSE to reverse this decision and ensure the continuation of this vital programme. [11268/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Welfare cheats cheat us all.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [10622/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: There are 20,000 members of Fine Gael. They make up 0.4% of the population. They are people who - no offence to them - are disproportionately older, disproportionately richer, disproportionately-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: To the programme for Government, it is. They are disproportionately more conservative than the average person in society. Does the Taoiseach think that it is appropriate for this group of 20,000 people to decide who will be the next Taoiseach to implement the programme for Government? Does he not think it is repugnant to the notion of democracy that it is those 20,000 people, and,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: When will we get legislation for 100% redress for those affected by apartment and duplex defects? It has been almost two years since the Government received a report that revealed the scale of this problem. Up to 100,000 families have been affected as a consequence of a regime of self-certification introduced by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It has been more than a year since we had a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his joint correspondence, along with the Spanish Prime Minister, to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the situation in Gaza. [10621/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the weapons coming through Irish airspace. They shot up in October of last year. They went from an average of about 100 exemptions for the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft per month, to about 200. There were 190 in October, and they have stayed at a consistently high level since then. What happened in October? There was 7 October and then...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the Taoiseach ask him not to?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the Taoiseach ask him to stop sending weapons?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did you ask him not to send weapons?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the number and locations of post offices run directly by An Post; and the number franchised out to postmasters. [12523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Penalty Points System (20 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that, ten years after the Garda inspectorate recommended that a system be introduced immediately to ensure that all penalty points are endorsed on driving licences, such a system is still not in place and it is still easy to register a vehicle in a false name and address in order to avoid enforcement on the roads...