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Planning and Development (Exempted Development – External Wall Insulation) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to exempt external wall insulation from planning permission, with the exception of certain limited circumstances. This Bill is inspired by a particular case, that of Clive and Samantha Ryan, who live in Kilnamanagh, Tallaght. In the past week, thankfully, they have finally...

Planning and Development (Exempted Development – External Wall Insulation) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

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

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Palestinian people are being starved to death in Gaza. We have heard again and again, rightly, about the 14,000 babies who face death from deliberate starvation in the next 48 hours. This is while the Israeli Government is openly boasting about the ethnic cleansing being carried out. Let us not forget that the bombing continues, with 82 Palestinians killed by this indiscriminate...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the Minister of State’s enthusiasm and fine words. The question is whether we are going to get the action to go with it. I raise a concrete case with him today and seek action on it. It is an issue where the State is not only failing to do enough to protect biodiversity, but is actually destroying it. The issue relates to the ongoing slaughter of badgers by the Department...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have another minute.

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: These beautiful and innocent badgers are being made a scapegoat for industrial farming practices where dairy herd sizes have ballooned. With bigger herds and more intensive farming comes more disease. The Department of agriculture admits that killing badgers is not sustainable in the long term due to its ultimate impact on badger ecology. It knows it does not work to control bovine...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 9(2)) (Amount of Financial Contribution) Order 2025: Motion (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Fine Gael's manifesto for the previous general election stated it would "Stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes." It would, it said, "unequivocally support Ukraine". That promise, like all the other promises of this Government, lasted approximately 100 days. It was not worth the paper it was written on. One of the first things the Government is doing is slashing supports to Ukrainian...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Investigations (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 13 May 2025, to provide details about this detailed examination; the date on which the examination commenced; to outline what the examination consists of; whether contact has been made with any of the airlines alleged to have carried these munitions; and when the examination will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a speech and language therapist in post at the National Gender Service; and if so, the years in which the National Gender Service had a speech and language therapist. [26203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under the age of 18 years that have accessed the National Gender Service; and the criteria under which the service accepts referrals from a person under the age of 18. [26204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for adults to be seen within the National Gender Service. [26205/25]

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I congratulate the Chair. Apologies in advance. I have to leave in five minutes to do a First Stage speech in the Dáil. I look forward to working with members. Most areas have been well covered, including access to education, with student housing being a key focus, and the question of apprenticeships. The point about corporatisation of third level education is important, and we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (22 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a school (details supplied) in which classes will be merged due to the school not meeting the threshold to retain staff which will result in a class of around 34 students in the next academic year, creating an extremely high student to teacher ratio; if she will request her Department to address this issue; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (22 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 15 May 2025, her plans to evacuate children that are currently stuck in Gaza, awaiting medical treatment and exposed to famine. [26406/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I presume the Taoiseach saw the horrific video of a six-year-old girl burning in Gaza. Her name is Ward. Thankfully, she actually survived but her family did not and approximately 20,000 other Palestinian children in Gaza have not. It is time for action to go with the words. It is time to stop the overflights. It is time to ban the sale of Israeli war bonds and it is time for full...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the US President. [25525/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I wish to pay condolences to Dr. Ali al-Najjar who works in Sligo University Hospital. On Friday, his sister-in-law, Alaa, a paediatrician in Khan Younis, said goodbye to her husband Hamdi and their ten children before she went to work to care for injured babies who barely survived Israeli attacks. However, after Israeli air strikes a few hours later, seven of her children's charred bodies...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [25526/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach and the Government are using Trump's tariff threats as an excuse to exhume the full ratification of CETA and bring it back from the dead. There are good reasons that the Supreme Court buried it back in 2022 when it ruled that the ratification of CETA would be unconstitutional because it gives extreme powers to shadowy private investor courts that have no democratic oversight...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: We do not have to sign up to the ICS.