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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that a response is provided to an email in relation to the disabled drivers scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15540/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the social housing retrofitting programme to Approved Housing Bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15690/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends legislating for higher minimum BERs as part of minimum rental accommodation standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15689/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. reference 1188 of 17 January 2024, the reason the accounts still have not been published for HRI and IHRB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15543/24]

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes. On Saturday, together with residents and housing activists, I was outside a house in Swiftbrook in Tallaght. It would make a fine home for a family but, instead, it has been vacant for ten years. It is owned by Pepper Finance, a vulture fund that is notorious for hiking up interest rates on mortgage holders. That has been sitting empty for ten years. It is one of more than 50,000...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: You are missing all your targets.

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: You support von der Leyen.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 5 March 2024, if, given that the December 2022 mining policy states that no damage may be done to the environment and its protection is “paramount”, he can cite any location where lithium has been mined without severe damage to the environment. [14684/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 5 March 2024, if he will comment on how, in its literature the company states that it will remove the settled rock sediment from the drilling site ‘for appropriate disposal’, by saying this acknowledges that its drilling has produced material which is now in a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 5 March 2024, if he will assert that a drilling, two rigs working 12 hours a day, six days a week, will not damage the amenities (details supplied). [14686/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 5 March 2024, if, given that in the response he mentions “working with Member States and stakeholders”, he considers that people who live and work in mining/prospecting areas are not stakeholders and that their water supply could be compromised. [14687/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 5 March 2024, the reason the Government is favouring the mining of lithium with its many problems over development of truly sustainable systems. [14688/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware of a recruitment drive by the Air Corps and Defence Forces (details supplied); his views on whether Ireland as a neutral country that a method of recruiting children in schools is not appropriate; and if he will instruct Defence Forces to remove any recruitment propaganda from schools. [13989/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will act to ensure that a public bus service is reinstated between Galway and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13726/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to progress plans in the Green Party's transport policy to regulate advertisements that glamourise unsustainable modes of transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13727/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action he has taken, including by liaising with his Cabinet colleagues as appropriate, to restrict advertisements that are misleading with regard to the impact of motoring on the environment, on urban congestion and on road safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13728/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support a ban on advertising of new fossil-fuelled cars, in order to reduce the demand for unsustainable modes of transport in line with transport and climate policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13729/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he supports a ban on private jets using Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13730/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether weapons bound for Israel are transiting through Shannon Airport; if he will immediately stop the use of Shannon as a transit hub for an active enabler of the genocidal violence happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14052/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider implementing technology which would allow, without the person taking the test having to make a complaint, for a review of each driving test examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15344/24]