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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: One of the targets in Climate Action Plan 2024 is to reduce by 20% the number of kilometres travelled by vehicles. Where are we in the context of that target? Has there been a reduction? On a related matter, the Minister stated that we need to stop fossil fuel cars. Last year, more fossil fuel cars were sold than EVs. That is not compatible with meeting the targets. We should not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: Thank you.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Transport Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [6664/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his engagements at the special meeting of the European Council on Ukraine and the EU budget. [7879/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 8 November 2022, if he will follow up with the UN Human Rights Committee, requesting any updates in relation to this case, including any actions taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8193/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the decision on an international protection application will be made for a person (details supplied); the reason international protection is not being expedited for Palestinians; and what psychological and social supports are available to this person and other Gazans. [8170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harriers (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of a campaign (details supplied) in light of stark hen harrier decline; if he will give a Government commitment to the protection of this bird of prey before it is too late; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8183/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of two complaints (details supplied) submitted to his office; if he will ensure that his Department processes these complaints as a matter of urgency, taking the necessary actions for animal welfare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8187/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a college fee waiver will be given to a person (details supplied) in order that they can continue their studies; if not, how their college fees can be covered for the remainder of their course, given they are an international protection applicant; if they will be eligible for the international protection student scheme for FE and HE...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the free travel scheme to children for whom child benefit is paid, and in the case of young children and their travel companions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7898/24]

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: First, I thank the families, the advocates and the children in the Gallery for taking time out to fight for healthcare services. People should get the healthcare that they need. They should not be on long waiting lists. They should not be waiting over a year to get healthcare. It is a national scandal that we are here tonight. We have been here before. Children with scoliosis are being...

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Ukrainian people have faced two years of invasion, occupation and war crimes as a result of Putin's horrendous, criminal, imperialist invasion. It has been described as a meat grinder and been compared with the First World War due to the level of casualties and the type of war that is being fought. More than 10,000 civilians have been killed and that is potentially a significant...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I wonder whether, in the Taoiseach's discussions with Rishi Sunak, the question of financial support for Israel's genocide in Gaza came up. Britain continues to be probably the second most enthusiastic supporter of Israel globally after the US. War bonds are a type of government debt to raise capital to fund war efforts. Does the Taoiseach agree that US Treasury bonds have effectively...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 23. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his meeting with the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. [7877/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: It has been reported that Ursula von der Leyen is to seek a second term as European Commission President, the most powerful political position in the European Union. Politico sums up her pitch as, "More military might, less climate talk". This is the Commission President who went to Israel to give a green light to the genocide that is now under way and continues to support that genocide....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [6663/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: The evidence is mounting of a concerted campaign of intimidation and repression by the State against pro-Palestinian activists in this country. I raised with the Taoiseach before the case of Léna Seale, a PBP local election candidate who was arrested, held for more than ten hours and charged with criminal damage for allegedly putting washable red paint on the Department of Foreign...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: I raise the issue of historical sex abuse of children at St. John Ambulance. Mick Finnegan, one of the survivors of that abuse, is in the Gallery. It is almost a year since the publication of the Shannon report into this. It will be over a year since the organisation received a copy of that report. It made a series of recommendations, one of which was the employment of a full-time...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the free travel scheme to all social welfare recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7897/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a poverty impact assessment was carried out into extending child benefit to 18 year-olds in full-time education or training compared to extending it to 16, 17 and 18 year-olds not in full-time education or training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7895/24]