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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Correspondence (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will reply to correspondence from a person (details supplied). [26772/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the difficulties faced by non-binary people looking to change their name; if he will ensure that this oversight in the system is urgently addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27107/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the handwriting assessment that would be accepted by a primary school as the basis to use a laptop (details supplied). [26759/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the NPWS will be prosecuting a retailer who was selling illegal electronic traps in breach of the Wildlife Act 1976 snares and traps regulations (details supplied). [27353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ban larsen traps due to the stress and suffering caused to trapped birds and the fact that they are banned in Denmark, their country of origin. [27354/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to publish her Department’s feedback to the International Protection Office on the potential designation of Algeria as a safe country for the purposes of the International Protection Act 2015. [27478/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Priorities (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to follow England and Northern Ireland in introducing pet abduction legislation to make this a specific criminal offence carrying a minimum prison term upon conviction. [27356/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 349 of 28 May 2024, if she has delegated her powers under the Criminal Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners Act 2003) to the IPS (details supplied); and if so, if she will provide this Deputy with a copy of such delegation duly authorised. [27357/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 349 of 28 May 2024, if she has delegated her powers under the Criminal Justice (Temporary Release of Prisoners Act 2003), to the IPS (details supplied); and if so, if a copy of such delegation duly authorised will be provided to this Deputy. [27369/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1284 of 17 January 2024, the number of approved slaughter facilities; the locations of each; and the number of the 1,428 thoroughbreds slaughtered in 2023 that were killed at a location (details supplied). [27338/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 25 April 2024, the breakdown of the figure of 1,998 equines slaughtered in 2023 at Department-approved slaughter plants, broken down by type of animal slaughtered, location of slaughter and reasons for slaughter. [27339/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of injured horses that have been killed at Irish racecourses to date in 2024, with a breakdown into type of injury and location; and if, given the ongoing suffering and death at races, he will defund horse racing. [27340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds injured in racing and trials to date in 2024, with a breakdown into type of injury; the date and location where they occurred; the number killed outright or euthanised by track vets; the number and causes of additional racing fatalities; and the results of any related post-mortems. [27341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied for the nitrates derogation in Ireland in 2023; the average income of those farmers; and the average amount those farmers received in CAP and any other payments. [27484/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the interventions that will be provided for a child with additional needs (details supplied). [27485/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has been consulted by An Taoiseach in relation to the possibility of a ban on fossil fuel advertising; if so, what his advice was; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27538/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister has seen the comments by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, calling for a ban on fossil fuel advertising. He correctly calls the fossil fuel companies the godfathers of climate chaos, who rake in record profits while the most vulnerable are left stranded. I asked the Taoiseach about this a couple of weeks ago and he said he would speak to the Minister,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is interesting that the Minister states his Department is not responsible. I got a letter from the Ceann Comhairle disallowing one of the questions I put asking if the Minister would support such a ban. It was disallowed on the basis that the Minister has no official responsibility to Dáil Éireann and that the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland is a self-regulatory...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is at least as important, however, if not more. There is a public health element. One in ten children in this country is suffering from asthma and fossil fuel cars are a major contributor to that. Of course, there is also the biggest challenge facing humanity as a whole: climate catastrophe, for which the fossil fuel companies are the number one culprits. The Minister has been the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: And "The Late Late Show".