Results 12,061-12,080 of 12,400 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a recent review by the US Department of Health and Human Services on healthcare for trans youth (details supplied); and if the HSE's Gender Healthcare Programme intends to consider it. [27008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 690. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 7 May 2025, the staff positions for the gender healthcare programme that have been filled and which remain unfilled. [27009/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 691. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of the names and specialties of the cross speciality clinical advisory group within the gender healthcare programme. [27010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 692. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the community pilot project to identify the needs of children and young people within the gender healthcare programme, including around ethical approval and any patient and public involvement in the project. [27011/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 758. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 20 May 2025, in which the Minister for Finance clarified that provision and regulation of private health insurance is a matter for the Minister for Health, if she is aware of the fact that sports insurance firms are not paying for upfront medical costs (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: On Saturday week, 7 June, at 2 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance, parents, families and their supporters will hold yet another protest to demand their children with additional needs have the right to education, just like any other child - appropriate education in their community as outlined in the UNCRPD. The protest is part of a growing national movement, equality in education, demanding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the progress of legislation to ban trade with the occupied territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27406/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: What is now important is that we implement this Bill as urgently as possible and that we do it right. Doing it right does not mean excluding the majority of our trade with the occupied territories; it means including goods and services. I would like to get into, in some detail, what the Tánaiste says is the legal basis for excluding services is. He said we have a narrow legal pathway...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: There is a significant weight of learned legal opinion which says the Government can do goods and services. The Tánaiste will have seen the letter from 350-plus of Ireland's most prominent lawyers stating that they do not consider there to be any insurmountable legal obstacles preventing the adoption of legislation prohibiting the import of goods and services produced in the unlawful...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It could be amended.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: A public consultation on redesignating 433 rivers, streams and lakes as "heavily modified water bodies", closed last week. If the redesignation goes ahead, it will mean a massive increase in the number of these "heavily modified water bodies" from 33 to 466. All the main rivers in Dublin - the Liffey, the Dodder, the Poddle - as well as iconic rivers like the Boyne, the Corrib and the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State referred to a realistic yet stringent standard. I presume he will accept that it is deliberately a much less stringent standard than if those water bodies were not redesignated as highly modified water bodies. The reply was in line with what I am saying. This is the Government throwing in the towel in respect of improving the quality of our water bodies. To quote...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Question Heading for question(s) 375 (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 375. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if she will instruct their department to look into this issue; to take waiting times from other health services such as the NHS into account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27827/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel, he will direct the Central Bank to stop facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27946/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether he has a duty under the Genocide Convention to stop the Central Bank from facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether Israeli war bonds, whose sale is facilitated by the Central Bank, are financing the genocide in Gaza; his further views on whether the Central Bank and his Department are complicit in genocide as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27949/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Sanctions (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel, he will impose financial sanctions on the state of Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Sanctions (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of the value of financial assets held in Ireland by Israeli state entities and by companies registered in Israel; his views on whether these assets should be frozen in light of the genocide being carried out by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he will take the address the concerns raised about the use of AI in the public service by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measurement that has been carried out of the impact on carbon emissions of expanding the use of AI in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28130/25]