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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: Losing a child is the worst thing a parent can experience or even imagine. Aaron and Laura have, unfortunately, had to live this horrible reality. Their little girl, Ada, passed away suddenly on 26 October 2022. She was just two days short of being 20 months old. In Aaron's words, "she went to bed happy and healthy, such a great little kid. We have no concrete answers yet why she passed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [43870/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: We need to have a debate this week about the role of the Israeli Embassy in Ireland, in particular its justification and lies to cover for the genocidal assault taking place on Gaza which has been responsible for over 5,000 people, including more than 2,000 children, being killed. There have been outrageous comments from the ambassador about the President, accusing him of spreading...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will begin with Dr. O'Mahony. Many of the observations in his opening statement were very powerful, but the most powerful line was: "The status quo, built on maximising production, cheap food policy and driving export demand for dairy and meat, is not working for rural Ireland or for biodiversity." That is a very important point. It is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: To turn to Dr. O'Hagan-Luff and Dr. Ní Dhuill, I agree with much of what they said. I am sceptical, however, about the main drive towards which they are pushing. Last week, the committee heard about the rights of nature approach. Obviously, they are coming at it very much from the natural capital approach. There are fundamental problems with that which I wish to explore and on which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: There might be a problem with the system.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees with an organisation (details supplied) that Budget 2024 is regressive because temporary changes like one-off social protection payments are more concentrated among those on lower incomes, whereas the permanent changes favour the already better off; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46428/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the €4 increase in the qualified child payment will make a significant impact on child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Levels (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she anticipates poverty in this country will be ended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46429/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason no additional one-off payment of one-parent family payment was included in Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46426/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Levels (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she anticipates that poverty among people with disabilities in this country will be ended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46430/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he supports adding additional or express services on the 15-bus route in the mornings to address overcrowding issues in the Knocklyon area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46059/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that roughly 2,260 CIÉ retired salaried staff have not received a pension increase since 2008; if he will ensure that the board of CIÉ assign adequate funds to the CIÉ Superannuation Scheme 1951 to pay increases to CIÉ pensioners in line with the-cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Legal Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on legal advice and/or legal representation between 2015 to date, broken down on an annual basis. [46136/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether sufficient funding has been provided in Budget 2024 for the redress schemes for apartment and duplex defects and for Mica and Pyrite. [46629/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether in situations where apartment or duplex complexes affected by defects receive offers from developers to address redress, he will outline how they will be affected in terms of eligibility for the future redress scheme, in circumstances where the developers’ payments do not cover all of the necessary work and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if only DEIS schools are included in the 600 new meals programme outlined in Budget 2024. [46254/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether an external review into the discrepancies identified in accounts of the IHRB (details supplied) will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46677/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 517. To ask the Minister for Health whether the spring being removed from the patients at Temple Street (details supplied) will be retained, in order that it can be analysed as part of the external review. [46135/23]