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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Infrastructure (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the emissions impact of imported liquefied natural gas, LNG, is worse than that of coal; and if he envisages the building of either a State-led or commercial LNG terminal in that context. [7030/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Infrastructure (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Minister aware that the emissions impact of imported LNG is worse than even coal? It is the dirtiest fossil fuel. Despite that, the Taoiseach has said that we will "have to have an LNG facility of some kind." Will the Minister be going along with the Taoiseach? Will that be a so-called State-led project, as the previous Government was in favour of, or a commercial LNG? Can the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Infrastructure (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I note the Minister simply ignored the actual question. That is obviously a prepared answer; he has a prepared question. I could go again. Is the Minister aware that the emissions impact of imported LNG is worse than that of coal? This is research from last October by an environmental scientist called Robert Howarth. I will give the Minister some of the lowlights. The paper states that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Infrastructure (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not my contention, Minister. I do not claim to be a climate scientist. It is the contention of those who have researched the matter. Perhaps the Minister is going to ignore the science on it. The answer in terms of energy security and resilience is, first, to stop expanding data centres. They are putting our energy usage on an accelerating upward track - they are going to be at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Infrastructure (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Hospitals, Minister?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 469 of 5 February 2025, regarding funding for a school (details supplied) if she will provide information and the progress and status of the additional school accommodation that was received by her Department in November 2022. [5948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any policy to ensure that approved housing bodies repair any damage done to neighbouring properties as a consequence of insufficient maintenance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations of a review (details supplied) and the related issues raised in correspondence to the Minister from a survivor of abuse. [5595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ukraine War (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of all meetings of the Ukraine Contact Defence Group that Ireland has been represented at; who has represented Ireland at these meetings; and the location in which these meetings took place. [6454/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is planning to exempt external wall insulation from planning permission, like it did with solar panels, to reduce the uncertainty and barriers to homeowners who want to get their homes insulated, a necessary step towards reducing household emissions and radically reducing home energy costs; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing times for social welfare appeals by scheme between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Child Protection (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considers it a child protection issue that a 17-year-old boy was permitted to train a racing greyhound to provide a betting product for an Irish semi-State body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding his Department has provided to an organisation (details supplied) for linear profile training since it was introduced in 2019. [6616/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal minimum age for a person in Ireland to obtain a licence to train a greyhound to race; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6625/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the greyhound laurels race final on television (details supplied) on 5 October 2024; the viewership figures for this broadcast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6626/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the fee cost or other compensation paid by Greyhound Racing Ireland to social media influencers for the 2024 Irish Greyhound Derby 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6628/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the 2024 Greyhound derby semi-final and final on television (details supplied) on 16 and 23 November 2024; the viewership figures for this broadcast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are freezers for deceased greyhounds at all fifteen greyhound racing tracks licenced by Greyhound Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6630/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the current location and status of a greyhound (details supplied) which tested positive for a prohibited substance at Curraheen track in Cork on 17 August 2024 and was subsequently sold at a sales auction at Curraheen greyhound track on 2 November 2024 for €1,100, but is still listed in the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how an Irish greyhound (details supplied) is recorded on the Rásaíocht Con Éireann traceability system as it was found very recently in a stray dog pound in the UK, following a seven-day stay and described as "full of fleas, overgrown nails and muzzle marks to the nose already with dirty teeth", while still being...