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

Paul Murphy: On the question of resource prioritisation, does the NPWS have enough funding and staff to properly protect habitats and do its job?

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

Paul Murphy: They often say that. Often, they say it is above their paygrade and that they could not possibly comment. Mr. Ó Donnchú should feel free to comment.

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

Paul Murphy: Will Mr. Ó Donnchú talk to me about wildlife crime, in particular, fires deliberately set by farmers, which have a devastating impact? We are not talking about tens of fires across the country but hundreds of them. Will Mr. Ó Donnchú talk about the scale of the problem, the resources in place to tackle it, the reason there not a specific wildlife crime unit and what...

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

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Ó Donnchú.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what actions his Department is taking to ensure the safe release of an Irish-Israeli citizen (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49908/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take immediate action to stop the fighting in Sudan; if he will commit to delivering food and medical aid to the Sudanese people through organisations such as the UN World Food Programme and the Red Crescent; if he will strongly condemn the shipments of weapons into Sudan from countries that are opponents of peace, including but...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if is aware that the UN has stated that there is a record 6.9 million people internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to escalating violence, for the sake of mining coltan and cobalt for the big tech companies of the world; the actions that have been or will be taken by his Department to bring an end to the violence;...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what actions his Department is taking to ensure the safe release of an Irish-Israeli citizen (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49908/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence [49912/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is unable to avail of the disabled drivers scheme unless they modify their car, given that this person does not need adaptions to drive but needs to avail of the benefits provided by the scheme; if he will investigate this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Home Schooling (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance if, further to previous correspondence where he confirmed that the Department of Education has an "administrative agreement" with the Revenue Commissioners, where home tutors are classified as self-employed entirely because of a precedential group or class decision of the social welfare appeals office to label all home tutors as self-employed for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Trafficking (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that serious concerns in relation to the WRC labour inspectorate's interactions with migrant workers - and, in particular, undocumented migrant workers - were raised in "protected disclosures" by a WRC labour inspector to the WRC and the Department in 2015, to Minister Frances Fitzgerald in 2017 and to Minister Simon Coveney...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Protected Disclosures (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm whether a disclosure to Minister Fitzgerald in July 2017 (details supplied) was included in the Department’s Protected Disclosures Report for 2017, as required under Section 22 of the Protected Disclosures Act; and, if so, what specific wording was used to declare that disclosure. [50022/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the issue of the barriers to full Teaching Council registration for a teacher (details supplied) who has obtained qualifications outside the Republic of Ireland, despite the opening-up of a route to full registration. [49278/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will instruct her Department to investigate a case (details supplied); if she will ensure this person receives compensation for the time they were unable to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49561/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will now accept that the approach of using precedential group and/or class decisions to make insurability of employment determinations on groups and/or classes of workers is unlawful [49833/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will clarify what steps she is taking to compensate workers for their losses by being unlawfully misclassified as self-employed by group and/or class by the Social Welfare Appeals Office, which the Minister has been aware of since at least 1995. [49834/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will make a public statement to the effect that the failure of the Social Welfare Appeals Office and Senior Management of her Department to halt the unlawful use of precedential sample/test cases when her Department was first informed of this unlawful practice may now...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if hare coursing meetings at Fermoy and Trim, scheduled to take place last weekend, were called off; if so, to outline the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds between 2012 and 2022; and the number of those inseminations that were carried out with sperm straws collected from now deceased stud dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49625/23]