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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I take the Chair's point, and I will move on. I accept Ms Donnelly's framing and that what she is saying is a problem is also a problem. I do not accept that it is the only problem. Does Ms Donnelly not see that even if we can bring the renewables into stream and on time in order to accommodate this further growth of data centres, there still is a problem. There are two problems. One...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yes. We have to electrify and then go to renewables.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the CRU why the current consultation on large energy users is proposing only to introduce new requirements and conditions for new data centres as opposed to existing ones?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Finally, has the CRU communicated carbon budget obligations to Gas Networks Ireland, GNI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms MacEvilly.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to give a complete overview of the process that the US military must follow when moving personnel through Irish Airports on US Military aircraft transiting through Irish airports since January 2022. [50105/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a record of all US Military flights that have passed through Shannon Airport since the beginning of October 2023. [50106/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to give a detailed account of all oversight procedures implemented by his Department, other Government Departments and/or the Irish Aviation Authority on flights granted exemptions for the carriage of munitions of war, weapons and dangerous goods through Irish airports (inspections of aircraft, inspections of manifests, Garda deployment,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a record of all exemptions provided to carry weapons and munitions of war through Irish ports and airports since January 2022. [50104/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a record of all US Military contracted flights that have passed through Shannon Airport since the beginning of October 2023 [50106/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to give a complete overview of the process that the US military must follow when moving personnel through Irish Airports on US Military chartered flights and to provide any/all records of US personnel transiting through Irish airports since January 2022 [50105/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, in tabular form, the NEPS areas across the country, and the number of psychologists appointed to each. [50043/23]

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Earlier today, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, was taking Leaders' Questions. He was asked about the horror being rained down on the people of Gaza. He said that what is taking place is a war on children. It is a war being waged by Israel against Palestinian children. That is a very good description of what is happening....

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Has it changed?

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: There is still a period up to that when there are no restrictions. We could have annual restrictions on advertising by any potential candidate to avoid a lot of money being spent. An election does not just happen. Certainly in a three-week period or even 60 days-----

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will check it out. I encourage this because lowering the limits, and certainly not raising them in line with inflation, would generally have a good outcome.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Electoral Commission for its work on the boundaries. There are significant problems with the outcome but one cannot really blame the commission for it. It just implements the process that has been designed elsewhere, particularly here. Its hands have been tied by the decision to restrict constituencies to between three and five seats. The consequence is the current proposal we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is 2023 and we live in a wealthy country. For 7,000 people in Limerick, however, it might as well be the Dark Ages because they have no clean drinking water in their homes. For over five months, they have been told that the water coming from their taps is not safe to drink because of the pollution of our rivers and the underfunding of our treatment plants. This is particularly egregious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: Is the situation not pretty bleak? I refer to some of the statistics that were given in the opening statement: 85% of Ireland's habitats are assessed to be in unfavourable conservation status; 46% of habitats are reported to be in decline; and 60% of species listed under the habitats directive are recorded as having favourable conservation status, but that presumably means that 40% have a...