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Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have apologies from Deputy Coppinger. Our group will divide the time equally between the three of us. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. One thing it does very well is draw a straight line between handouts for big business and child poverty and homelessness. It is utterly scandalous that the Government is planning to hand over €675 million in unnecessary...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine overflights of Ireland of munitions to Israel without authorisation; and when this examination commenced and will be completed. [50689/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the harm to the environment caused by the Asian hornet; and if he will instruct his Department to investigate the issue and ensure the population of this invasive species is under control. [50686/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I seek confirmation from the Government that it agreed to have statements next week on Gaza. I think we do have that confirmation. We might get an initial response. Micheál Martin made a significant statement at the UN yesterday opposing the right of Palestinians to self-determination. Is that now the position of the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank all of the witnesses. Often when we think about AI, we just think about ChatGPT and asking it to summarise this for me, but it is behind much of the technology that we use in our lives. It is very pervasive. One example of that is recommender algorithms, which are run on AI. It is AI-driven technology. There have been shocking studies on it in DCU and other universities. You buy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Children's Rights Alliance in its submission made a point about the EU AI Act and that recommender algorithms were counted as high risk in an earlier draft but then got dropped entirely. Does Ms Blackwell have an opinion on why it was dropped?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is a good place to start. I thank the witnesses for all the presentations. I was struck by what Mr. Joyce said about the algorithms acting as vectors of harmful content, reinforcing and amplifying content that is harmful and so on. He made a call to pay more attention to recommender systems. We spoke about this in the earlier session. Will the Irish Traveller Movement support the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Joyce. I will turn to BeLonG To, who raised many of the same points about people being force-fed anti-LGBTQ, racist, far-right or pro-eating disorder content because it works for the tech giants. Then you have the added issue with AI and the algorithms effectively outing people without AI having the intent to do it in the sense that AI does not have intent. Similarly, is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: It came up a little bit earlier. It is possible to have social media without these algorithms. It is possible for people to choose themselves what they want. We do not have to have this fed to people. The companies do not want to do it because this is the magic that enables them to keep people's attention and then to sell more ads, etc. It is driven by profit. It is not driven by...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: He is seven.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I wish to raise the issue of funding for rare diseases. Rare diseases are not all that rare, given that 300,000 people are affected by one rare disease or another in Ireland, involving over 8,000 different diseases. While each individual disease is very rare, as a total they are quite common and have a big impact on people's lives. Often they suffer from a lack of research into their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I might just quote from Elizabeth who was in touch with me to let the Minister of State hear her voice. ... I would like you to explain to [the Minister] Leo's everyday struggles (he has autism a heart murmur, a learning disability, and muscle weakness) these are all due to his ocnds [Okur-Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome] diagnosis I would like you to explain that though deteriorating...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps she is taking to ensure that there are no more deaths of children who have been under the care of Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50114/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the action she is taking to alleviate childcare costs for parents forced to rely on childcare services that have withdrawn from the core funding scheme due to a lack of alternative options in their area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50115/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 590. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 7 May 2025, the current status of the National Gender Service moving to a new location. [49686/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if she will instruct her Department to consider expanding CAR-T therapies for patients over the age of 26 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49759/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 599. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have left before their regular retirement age, in St. James’ Hospital, Crumlin Hospital and Temple St. Hospital, in tabular form. [49768/25]