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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [4023/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the Cabinet committees on which he sits. [4033/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I raise the absolute scandal of how children with additional needs are failed by this State and left languishing on waiting lists for necessary therapies for years. I have figures, which show that almost 9,000 children across the country have been waiting more than 12 months, not for therapies, but for initial contacts from their CDNTs. A campaigner has done a tremendous amount of research...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The housing crisis is still getting worse. Every week, I meet couples who are working, whose combined income puts them over the limit for social housing and who are simply unable to afford a home in the market. They are spending all their money, week to week, on their rent and cannot save up a deposit. Such people are utterly trapped. The market has failed those people. The Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on Housing for All. [2798/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: For a number of years, the Government has talked the talk when it comes to a health-led approach to drugs but it definitely has not walked the walk. The failed and failing war on drugs has continued. In 2022, 17,321 controlled drug offences were reported. There has not been the investment needed in the front-line drug addiction services and task forces. Investment has basically stagnated....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [4032/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with disability will next meet. [4024/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle; it is People Before Profit. Sixty people per day are now being prosecuted for not paying the TV licence. More than 13,00 people were brought to court last year and, if convicted, had to pay a fine of €1,000 or face a jail term. This is in the context of what is now a majority of eligible people refusing to pay the TV licence. It is an unjust, regressive...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take a stance against Pakistan's actions and explore avenues such as sanctions to halt the ongoing war crimes in occupied Balochistan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3935/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: European Union (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of a report in which the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change said the EU’s policies will need revising to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 (details supplied); his views on whether the EU should stop subsidising fossil fuels and to redirect such spending towards targeted actions...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise on the process to follow when a person has made a complaint to the National Transport Authority and there has been no resolution offered or action taken to resolve this complaint; if there is an authority the person can report the NTA to for their poor handling of the complaint process; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the recent decision not to release funds that would allow teachers in Ireland who have taught in secondary schools outside the EU to move up the incremental pay scale, if she will reconsider this decision and take immediate action to rectify this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to the issue of no HEPA filters in Irish classrooms despite the €62 million announcement by her in December 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4197/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will acknowledge that the 10% stamp duty on investment funds purchasing homes in bulk has not deterred investment funds; if he will take immediate action to implement a ban on property purchases by investment funds, which is exacerbating the housing crisis; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct his Department to intervene in the case of the 28 houses completed in an estate (details supplied) to ensure the properties are not sold to investment funds. [4180/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Oireachtas Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to comments made by the Secretary General of her Department at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) (details supplied), to correct the record with the PAC that sample/test cases were and are used to ensure that the same conclusion is reached in cases, contrary to the erroneous information given to the PAC. [3952/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delayed decision on a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide inspection reports from 2019 to the present day for a company (details supplied). [4161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a decision (details supplied) by Tusla relating to a crèche can be appealed. [4234/24]