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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank our witnesses.

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I welcome financial supports for small farmers during this bad weather. Unfortunately for them and society in general, the weather will keep getting worse and farming will become more and more difficult due to climate change. Yesterday at the climate committee, we heard presentations from the authors of Ireland's climate change assessment, an official Government report. They told us...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: Most are not, but the big ones are. Do you not think there are any rich dairy farmers?

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: There are, yes.

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is an unusual intervention by the Ceann-----

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: Particularly aimed at People Before Profit I would say.

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I would say the record proves it.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure an ASD unit is added to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17746/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Water Services (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a cancellation of a debt to Irish Water in the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17987/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he agrees that planning applications for sites within industrial estates should be required to prominently display planning notices at the entrance to the industrial estate rather than within the estate itself. [17442/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review of the housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability. [17874/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 652. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, if the staff census is using all the CHO numbers, HSE employees only or non-HSE employees (details supplied). [17884/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 653. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, with the new breakdown, if he will instruct the HSE to clarify the reason the numbers are still not matching up; what parameters the staff census uses, i.e. CDNT exclusive or if they include hospitals and-or complex needs schools as well; if so, if the HSE will provide percentages for which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 654. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, the methodology the HSE used to come up with the figures they arrived at in the staff census for the different categories (details supplied). [17886/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is concerned about negative environmental impacts from the CAP simplification process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18332/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: A range of farmers and environmental groups have raised serious criticisms about negative environmental impacts and negative impacts for farmers from the so-called CAP simplification which the European Parliament voted for yesterday. They say that it will increase farmers vulnerability to extreme weather events, that it guts environmental standards and that it is a race to the bottom. MEPs,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister knows and agrees that we are in a climate and biodiversity crisis and yet the European Commission with the support of the Irish Government and the support of the three big parties in this Dáil has just agreed to delete, weaken or make voluntary several of the GAECs. The Minister listed some of them. They include minimising tillage to prevent soil erosion,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I give considerable credit to the work small farmers are doing - people who are struggling and are not supported by the Government. I do not give any credit to the Government, which simply does the bidding of the agribusiness lobby at the expense of the environment and at the expense of small farmers. The Minister likes to hide the reality of farming behind the phrase "family farms"....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: The biggest part of it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: Most of it is not.