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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grant Payments (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1081 of 22 January 2025, the grants that were approved; the grants they drew down with a breakdown for each area including marketing, inspection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4686/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1125 of 22 January 2025, if all 256 horses certified for export from Ireland for slaughter in France were actually exported; the method and route of transport used; and the number that were thoroughbreds. [4700/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total expenditure allocated to maintain existing levels of services in respect of youth affairs, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4205/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 533. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total expenditure allocated to new development measures in respect of youth affairs in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4206/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children and young people who benefited from engagement in youth work services for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4207/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any financial supports or grants available for people attempting to set up supervised access services, given the financial struggles many parents face while trying to avail of these services; whether her Department will provide funding for these services; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 575. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the fact that those suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy are currently not able to get treatment in the State and are forced to travel to the United States; if she will ensure that these people receive treatment in Ireland and if in the interim her Department will cover this procedure under the treatment abroad...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 687. To ask the Minister for Health if the hardship scheme will be expanded to allow for forms and prescriptions from GPs to be accepted in place of those from paediatricians; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4679/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the issue of staff restructuring at a company (details supplied) and the strike action conducted in relation to it; and if he will work with the company to ensure that education staff is paid fairly and student education is not negatively impacted. [4717/25]

Protection of Tenants' Deposits Bill 2025: First Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 so that the provisions in that Act for tenant deposits to be sent to the Residential Tenancies Board are commenced within 90 days of the passing of this Act. I am introducing this Bill to protect tenants' deposits today because it is one of the common and damaging...

Protection of Tenants' Deposits Bill 2025: First Stage (13 Feb 2025)

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

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the recent reduction in speed limits on local rural roads. I also welcome the forthcoming reduction in speed limits on urban roads from 50 km/h to 20 km/h. The facts are absolutely undeniable that speed kills and reducing speed even by a small amount saves limbs and lives. Research published by the Department of Transport shows there is "an extremely strong and fundamental...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Appointments (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is concerned that a conflict of interest may exist in relation to the Minister of State for the OPW’s involvement in a High Court case relating to an OPW property in Lissywollen; what steps he will take to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 245. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will introduce a compulsory notice period for childcare services that are closing down services; if she agrees that the planned closure of the afternoon session of a playgroup (details supplied) with eight days' notice to parents is entirely unacceptable; if she will intervene to prevent the closure of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: We are heading for climate catastrophe. We know that 2024 was the warmest year on record - 1.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Already, extreme weather events, hunger and sickness related to climate change are responsible for the loss of 300,000 lives a year. That figure, unfortunately, will only rise. We now have a climate denier in the White House. He says, "drill, baby,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach abandon the plan to import expensive-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----and dirty fossil fuels from America and will he reverse the course on data centres?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The signal the Taoiseach is sending is that he does not care about the climate change challenge and about the emissions targets, because we will blow right past them. He does not care. He does not care about the bills that are going up for ordinary people. He does not care about people who are forced to pay carbon taxes when they have no other way to get to work. He does not care about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: This is the crisis facing humanity right now. We need to make the choices. The choice the Taoiseach is making is to put-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----big tech profits, the same companies that fuel hate for profit,-----