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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach commit to introducing free HRT in the budget? Will he also agree not to limit access according to unjust criteria? All women who need HRT deserve equal access to it regardless of age or income or whether they are in menopause, perimenopause, premature menopause or post-menopause. At the moment, women in this country are forced to pay the full cost of HRT, which ranges...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is reported that more bombs are going off in Lebanon now, with an additional three people killed today, and we know 12 were killed yesterday, including two children. This is state terrorism. It is a very clear war crime and I would like the Taoiseach to clearly condemn it in those terms. This is not some once-off out of nowhere. Over the last year, there have been more than 6,000...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will start with a quote from a parent who put it extremely well: Early years childcare in Ireland seems broken. The staff themselves are poorly paid and move frequently. Parents have to pay exorbitant fees, which become even more challenging to fund if there is more than one child. The Government needs to look at a more wholescale change to the system. There are environmental and...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — over 10,000 children are waiting for an Assessment of Need (AON) and 110,000 are awaiting essential therapies; — over 120 children were without a school place at the beginning of September this year, while many more are forced to do a third year in the Early Childhood Care and Education Programme or are in Autism Spectrum...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank everybody who has participated in the debate. I have sat through many debates like this in the Dáil and heard the Minister of State's responses in the past. I have heard about the pilot schemes, the task forces and the marginal improvements in a horrendous situation. It is still horrendous. If you go from waiting six years for an intervention that your child needs to waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is legal for insurance companies to refuse a person a policy based on a previous criminal record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37126/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, if he will confirm whether properties with minor adaptations (such as a downstairs bathroom and removable handrails) are considered specially adapted houses that cannot be purchased by disabled individuals or their families under current...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, if properties with minor adaptations are indeed ineligible for purchase; and the reason the disabled persons grant application form states that the cost of adaptation works will be added to the cost of the house in the event of a future...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, under which scheme a family is allowed to purchase a designated medical property, and what the timeframe is before they can apply to do so. [37122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, given that the South Dublin County Council website states that "The period of time tenants will be required to be in receipt of social housing support to be considered eligible under the scheme is 10 years", if this period includes time...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 261. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1345 and 1441 of 9 September 2024, if it is correct that a centre (details supplied) has decided to stay in core funding for year three; and if it is correct that any childcare provider must give three months’ notice if they decide to leave core funding. [37132/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: For almost a year, Israel has been waging a genocidal war against Palestinians. More than 40,000 people in Gaza have been murdered. Israeli attacks on Lebanon have not just started in recent days, but rather they have been escalating over the last year. Over the last year, there have been approximately 10,000 attacks on Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,000 people. Israel...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: -----that at least one flight carrying weapons of war from Israel to the US stopped in Shannon Airport. The Government refuses to inspect those planes. Will the Government now agree to start inspections? Members of the Lebanese community in Ireland-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: -----have called an emergency protest for tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the Dáil, and for Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister cannot with any sincerity on the one hand condemn the loss of life, saying we are doing everything we can to push for a ceasefire, and then turn a blind eye to weapons travelling through Irish airspace against the law to be used by Israel to commit these war crimes. He cannot in all sincerity claim to be doing everything he is doing to secure a ceasefire while refusing to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Can the Minister give me a guarantee now that we are not going to find out about any further flights? Is it just the nine flights, or has the Government very consciously adopted a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil approach? It says the right things and tries to pander to public opinion on this-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: -----but it is not willing to challenge the role of US imperialism, including the passage of weapons to Israel to commit these crimes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: You can. It is a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1.To ask the Taoiseach to provide a breakdown of the estimated annual cost of direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies. [32954/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on an independent panel of UN experts who have called for gender apartheid to be recognised as a crime incorporated in Article 2 of the Draft Crimes Against Humanity Convention; the reason Ireland has not yet taken a position on the inclusion of gender apartheid in the treaty (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...