Results 2,061-2,080 of 12,711 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Ireland is a party to the 1990 Copenhagen Document; if he will conduct a review to ensure Ireland is in alignment with the various requirements in it, in particular the need to have a legal framework for domestic and international observes to be present in polling stations and count centre; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline, in relation to a case (details supplied) where a mother was no longer provided with legal aid as it was claimed to be ‘outside of a jurisdiction’, the reason legal aid does not continue to represent parents and children who have been kidnapped from Ireland and brought to another country; if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the significant number of Irish children who year-on-year end up subject to international child kidnapping (details supplied); and if, in light of this ongoing crisis, she would be willing to establish and maintain an online list of Hague Convention countries that are non-compliant with their obligations...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline, in relation to a bilateral agreement designed to protect Irish children from being kidnapped to Egypt, the measures she has taken to try and create this agreement; the reason other countries have been successful in this but Ireland is yet to try; if she agrees that her Department should demand the same...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Greyhound Racing Ireland, GRI, previously Bord na gCon, has ever provided funding to the current or previous owners of Lifford Greyhound Stadium; if so, the amount; when this money was provided; the amount that has been paid back to GRI-Bord na gCon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of thoroughbreds rehomed through two organisations (details supplied) and all bodies his Department funds in each of the past ten years, specifying the names and ages of all those rehomed through the organisations. [29148/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact the UK has banned the export of live animals for slaughter or for fattening before slaughter; if he is planning a similar policy for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29360/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 370 of 28 May 2024, if his Department inspected a facility (details supplied) as a result of the recent information regarding the poor conditions in which dogs are being held there; his views on whether this situation is compatible with a group working as authorised officers on his Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 608. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the decision to proceed with the eviction notices issued to those living in IPAS accommodation giving them a deadline of 5 July 2024 to find alternative accommodation, if he considered, at a minimum, extending the current exemption in place for those over the age of 65 years or with significant...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 609. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on whether emergency legislation to protect the privately-held administrative records of institutions such as Magdalene laundries, industrial schools, orphanages, reformatories and mother and baby homes and bodies that engaged in the arranging of adoptions should be passed in Dáil and Seanad...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 615. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the recent drive to end profit in the social care sector in Wales (details supplied); his views on whether persons should be profiting from children in care; his further views on the need to nationalise the social care sector to end the reliance on charities; if he will support an end to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 733. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct his Department to investigate an issue (details supplied); if management at Tallaght Hospital was aware of these facts before taking this action; and if he will provide an update on this matter. [29382/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister cannot evade responsibility for this.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister was warned in advance.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is a national scandal how children with scoliosis are treated in this country. They are left languishing on waiting lists, not for months but for years in some cases, with their conditions worsening. We have heard promise after promise about bringing the waiting lists down, going back to 2017, when we heard from then Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, that there would be a maximum...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: Every year, we outline in our budget submission how this can be done. We increase the revenue the State raises and broaden our tax base by going after the major corporations that pay very little tax. We take the burden off ordinary workers – those who are earning less than €100,000 – and introduce a millionaire’s tax. We have a high-income social charge and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: Hopefully, we will see.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: This is the Minister's first set of questions as Minister for Finance. He could make himself popular if he were to announce that the Government is going to scrap what is probably the most hated tax in history, the universal social charge that was introduced as a temporary charge. Will he announce its scrapping for all income under €100,000?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister accept that the universal social charge was introduced effectively as a bank bailout tax? Always in answer to this question, it is stated that the USC combined two taxes, but in reality it was a massive increase in those taxes, generating a lot more revenue for the State. It was intended to be a temporary measure. It was an emergency measure in response to the crisis, to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister gave the figures for payment levels, suggesting they indicated that the vast majority pay. I think he said 800,000 paid last year and 358,000 had paid halfway through this year. In total, there are 1.8 million households in the State, approximately 500,000 of which are exempt. That leaves 1.3 million households. The Minister said that over a half-year period, 400,000 people...