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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a budgetary cap for SNA posts of 23,179 posts is being operated; and whether she thinks that this budgetary cap is standing in the way of children getting the support they need in school. [28493/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Benefits (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the policy whereby someone cannot have their homeless HAP increased to the new increased level while they stay in existing accommodation (details supplied) will be reviewed. [28546/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is science driven.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The legally binding target is 51%. That is the very least of what the science demands. However, we are miles off that and there is no indication whatsoever that the Government will speed up ambition. Things are going in the opposite direction. The EPA report states that emissions will fall by only 23% - that is the best-case scenario - with additional measures that have not even been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: How would we eliminate it?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not to eliminate Irish agriculture.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Correct.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Sometimes, when people are discussing this issue, they talk about culture in a disembodied sense, that a culture that was bad existed. Clearly, there was in this case. However, the culture was created by individuals and carried on by individuals. The top surgeons in question were a really big part of this. The question has to be asked in terms of what the motivation was. Was the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach agree that these surgeons should, at the very least, not now be conducting osteotomies? That can be done immediately and needs to be done immediately. The CHI statement is clear-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: ----- about reviewing operations from 2010 onward being reviewed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It needs to go back to 2002.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is when these operations started.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I do not want "not ruling out"; I want a commitment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: When Emilia was three years old she had osteotomies on both hips at Temple Street hospital. Her mother felt unduly and inappropriately pressured by the surgeon. It started out with the possibility that she might need one hip done and then it was an absolute necessity to get both done. Emilia was six before she could walk property. She was the slowest to do a cartwheel and the last to ride...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: We are authorising it.

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The gap between the words and the actions of the Government on Palestine grows ever bigger because the words get stronger but the Government refuses to act. What happens in debates like this or the one last night is that the Government comes in and effectively complains that it is not congratulated for not being as complicit in the genocide as the states that are literally funding it and...

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]

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have several questions. Why are the surgeons who performed hundreds of unnecessary surgeries on children still operating? Surgeon B could go into Temple Street tomorrow and do an osteotomy. Those surgeons are not being prevented from doing that. There is a lot of talk about rebuilding trust and so on, but all that seems very previous to me when, literally, the surgeons who are...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: What is mentioned here at the moment in the CHI press statement, for example, is that all the operations are being studied from 2010 in Temple Street. We know these novel osteotomies started in 2002. It does not seem to me there is any good reason to leave them out. The argument is they have reached skeletal maturity. They still deserve to know if they were wrongly operated on. That...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The main thing I want to do is to pay tribute, as has been done by many others, to Lucia, Jim and Shane's sisters. For 14 years, you should have been able to grieve and live your lives. Instead, you had to fight for justice. We should remember that the family was not fighting for justice against nobody. The state was on the other side and was blocking the search for justice. The State...