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Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)

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

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

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees with An Taoiseach that tax funds from a company (details supplied) should be spent on attempts to retain the nitrates derogation; what investments, in addition to those already outlined in his Department's official plan to retain the derogation published in August, he believes would be needed to achieve this, including...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Policy (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an economic assessment of the likely monetary impact on Irish agriculture of 1.5%, 2% and 3% of global heating; if his Department intends carrying out such an assessment if none is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38158/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline in percentage terms the amount of last year's reported reductions in agricultural emissions that can be attributed to revisions to the sector's baseline emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38157/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 176. 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. [38255/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been made aware of an approved housing body that has allegedly been overcharging its tenants (details supplied); if he will instruct the body to refund all tenants who were overcharged; and will an investigation be conducted into this matter and whether any other housing bodies are overcharging tenants. [38318/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will heed the calls of animal welfare and environmental groups to abolish the issuing of hare coursing licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38159/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in an effort to try and tackle dog theft, he will consider the introduction of compulsory microchip verification by veterinarians during routine visits, to confirm the owner’s name; if he will consider a mechanism to validate the registration status of the owner's address; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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

Paul Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if childcare providers that have signed a core funding scheme contract for any one year are under any legal obligation to inform parents three months in advance that they will not be signing up to the following year's core funding contract, or if the obligation to provide three months' notice of withdrawal from...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Investigation (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an exact date as to when the final report from the Farrelly commission of investigation (details supplied) will be published. [38297/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1358 and 1359 of 9 September 2024, the procurement process for engaging the services of an organisation (details supplied); if there were any site visits to inspect premises, paperwork or in-person meetings with any of the directors or management of an organisation. [38328/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1358 and 1359 of 9 September 2024, what was the audit process; if this ever led to any concerns about the governance and oversight of the organisation (details supplied); if an audit ever took place; and if so, the outcome of this process. [38329/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1358 and 1359 of 9 September 2024, the amount that was paid to a company (details supplied) in the years 2022, 2023, and 2024. [38330/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 267. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1358 and 1359 of 9 September 2024, what is the procurement process for engaging the services of for-profit companies to provide access supervision by Tusla now. [38331/24]

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

Paul Murphy: 268. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1358 and 1359 of 9 September 2024, what is the governance and oversight process of these companies now. [38332/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 297. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the drug ozempic available on the drug payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38324/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister, Deputy Chambers, spoke earlier about the Apple tax money having "the capacity to be transformational". He did not mention, nor did the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, that, as Deputy Boyd Barrett has pointed out, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael fought tooth and nail not to take this transformative amount of money, to say that €14 billion should stay on the cash pile of one of...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is backing business at the expense of workers. That is exactly what it is doing. The reason this Government - or the next Government if it is returned - is not going to introduce a transformative budget is that it will not break from its reliance on the market. In other words, it will not break from the prioritisation of profit for Apple, corporate landlords, private developers,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The treatment of education is summed up by the fact that, as the INTO has pointed out, more money has been allocated to the gimmick of smartphone pouches, to grab a cheap headline, than to increases in capitation for primary schools. That is absolutely scandalous and demonstrates a lack of priority for young people. The Government refused to introduce a second tier of child benefit for...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: We had a budget that trumpeted the fact it is giving a so-called baby boost to new parents of children of €420. That is it. It will not go very far. Now, before midnight - in effect, from tomorrow morning - we have got a measure which will give a very substantial baby boost to the wealthiest 3% of households worth €21,450. It is one of the great tricks of Fine Gael and...