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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Obviously we are going to return to this on Report Stage but I have related questions on foot of which I may or may not table amendments on Report Stage. Would the Minister of State be open to an amendment to say there would be no use of gas by the gas network from any LNG terminal? We should not be investing in further fossil fuel infrastructure, given the scale of the climate crisis....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a representation to the US authorities about a case (details supplied). [54041/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that the ‘right to sit’ regulation in existence is widely disregarded by employers in Ireland; what actions he will take to address this issue and ensure this right is provided to employees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54068/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to challenges faced by a teacher transitioning to Ireland, the steps the Government could take to help address existing barriers (details supplied). [54057/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will reverse her decision in relation to the Ministerial approval of RTÉ's request to transfer the administration costs of the superannuation scheme from RTÉ (scheme sponsor) to the pension fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54052/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Plaques (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure the immediate installation of the 2008 NFCD plaque at the famine sculpture (details supplied); the reason this plaque has not been installed; the earliest date for installation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54117/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the decision for the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board to give up on its own referral case three years, seven months and 13 days after it started investigating, and only a matter of days before the Referral Committee was due to hear the evidence (details supplied); if he will provide confirmation in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees that in line with WPATH best practices, services should have full and ongoing participation from trans and gender diverse people in relation to decisions about their health and that accordingly the trans community should have been included in the HSE workshop billed as “The Future of Transgender Care in Ireland” on 9 February...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 187. To ask the Minister for Health how many applications were made for the role of clinical lead for transgender services. [54112/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Health how the HSE intends to address the waiting times faced by those looking for trans healthcare; and the timeline for these actions. [54113/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees that in order to be in line with WPATH, GPs should provide blood tests to trans people, regardless of where they are sourcing their hormones. [54114/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees that instructing GPs to deny healthcare to trans people is putting their health at risk, and that the NGS should not interfere with the healthcare of people who are not their patients. [54115/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 191. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Ireland is reported to have the worst transgender healthcare in the EU, given this information if he is concerned that a person (details supplied) has endorsed the National Gender Services as the “gold standard for how it should be done”. [54116/23]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: People can read the article. That is no problem.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is not the first time.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: I have.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government fundamentally legitimised the rhetoric and the dehumanisation of the far right by creating inhuman, completely unfair discrimination between asylum seekers. It is treating Ukrainians the way decent people would expect refugees to be treated but treating people who are coming from other conflicts, such as in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, in a completely inhumane way, by putting...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: We saw more of it today with the Government choosing to say that this moment is one, like Micheál Martin shows, to say the far left is effectively as bad as the far right, giving out about some leaflet that People Before Profit produced in Cork. What did you say?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: What we are debating-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: No, I did not.