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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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 543. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to dental treatment available for children in Tallaght, Dublin 24, if the HSE Old County Road clinic only deals with dental emergencies now; if so, where children living in Tallaght can get their dental check-ups (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46289/23]

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

Paul Murphy: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a call by an organisation (details supplied) for the development and implementation of a national strategy to reduce epilepsy-related deaths; if he will action this strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46326/23]

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

Paul Murphy: 617. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 573 of 10 October 2023, if the external review will include operations carried out on adults at Cappagh Hospital. [46676/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in light of his recent announcement to increase the stipend for SFI and IRC PhD Researchers if he will now commit to a minimum national stipend for all PhD Researchers, regardless of their current funding source; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45685/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (19 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he is taking every action possible to evacuate Irish citizens from Gaza, including children (details supplied). [45955/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (19 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she considers it acceptable that a premises used by Medmark for workplace health and safety assessments on behalf of her Department is not accessible to those with mobility issues; if she will ensure that Medmark is compliant with Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which grants individuals the right to request a copy of...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is ethnic cleansing.

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I do not.

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: In the past ten days, we have heard a lot about Israel's right to defend itself. We heard it from Joe Biden, Ursula von der Leyen and the Taoiseach. What "defence" of an apartheid state looks like is now very clear. It means attempted starvation of more than 2 million people in Gaza. It means bombing hospitals, schools and apartment blocks. It means more than 3,000 Palestinians,...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: There are two issues here that need to be separated. One is the question of whether there is excess mortality and whether there are excess deaths. The second question is, if there are, what is the cause? The two are often intertwined and the subtext of much of the discussion on excess deaths, unfortunately, involves the implication, which is without foundation, that these deaths or a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: After the horrendous bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza, Joe Biden has arrived in Israel. He embraced the war criminal, Netanyahu, and said, "It appears as though it was done by the other team, not you." It was a disgusting comment in line with the disgusting policy of US support for Israeli ethnic cleansing. Those who have given a green light to genocide by Israel, including Joe...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 32. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with President Biden. [43869/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: EirGrid admitted this week that there is a reasonable probability that energy supply will not meet demand this winter. The main reason for that is the proliferation of data centres, consuming 18% of our electricity and projected to consume 30% of our electricity by 2030. This uncontrolled growth is incompatible with the need to reduce carbon emissions to zero to halt climate catastrophe....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The HSE chief executive officer, Bernard Gloster, said the simple reality is that the funding allocated to the health system in the budget is not adequate, that the service plan for 2024 that the HSE will put forward to the Minister will include a built-in deficit and that this will be the first time in his memory that that would be the case. I do not understand how the Government can...