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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 691. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of the names and specialties of the cross speciality clinical advisory group within the gender healthcare programme. [27010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 692. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the community pilot project to identify the needs of children and young people within the gender healthcare programme, including around ethical approval and any patient and public involvement in the project. [27011/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (27 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 758. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 20 May 2025, in which the Minister for Finance clarified that provision and regulation of private health insurance is a matter for the Minister for Health, if she is aware of the fact that sports insurance firms are not paying for upfront medical costs (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (22 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a school (details supplied) in which classes will be merged due to the school not meeting the threshold to retain staff which will result in a class of around 34 students in the next academic year, creating an extremely high student to teacher ratio; if she will request her Department to address this issue; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (22 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 15 May 2025, her plans to evacuate children that are currently stuck in Gaza, awaiting medical treatment and exposed to famine. [26406/25]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 9(2)) (Amount of Financial Contribution) Order 2025: Motion (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Fine Gael's manifesto for the previous general election stated it would "Stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes." It would, it said, "unequivocally support Ukraine". That promise, like all the other promises of this Government, lasted approximately 100 days. It was not worth the paper it was written on. One of the first things the Government is doing is slashing supports to Ukrainian...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the Minister of State’s enthusiasm and fine words. The question is whether we are going to get the action to go with it. I raise a concrete case with him today and seek action on it. It is an issue where the State is not only failing to do enough to protect biodiversity, but is actually destroying it. The issue relates to the ongoing slaughter of badgers by the Department...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have another minute.

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: These beautiful and innocent badgers are being made a scapegoat for industrial farming practices where dairy herd sizes have ballooned. With bigger herds and more intensive farming comes more disease. The Department of agriculture admits that killing badgers is not sustainable in the long term due to its ultimate impact on badger ecology. It knows it does not work to control bovine...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Palestinian people are being starved to death in Gaza. We have heard again and again, rightly, about the 14,000 babies who face death from deliberate starvation in the next 48 hours. This is while the Israeli Government is openly boasting about the ethnic cleansing being carried out. Let us not forget that the bombing continues, with 82 Palestinians killed by this indiscriminate...

Planning and Development (Exempted Development – External Wall Insulation) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Exempted Development – External Wall Insulation) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to exempt external wall insulation from planning permission, with the exception of certain limited circumstances. This Bill is inspired by a particular case, that of Clive and Samantha Ryan, who live in Kilnamanagh, Tallaght. In the past week, thankfully, they have finally...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I congratulate the Chair. Apologies in advance. I have to leave in five minutes to do a First Stage speech in the Dáil. I look forward to working with members. Most areas have been well covered, including access to education, with student housing being a key focus, and the question of apprenticeships. The point about corporatisation of third level education is important, and we...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Investigations (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 13 May 2025, to provide details about this detailed examination; the date on which the examination commenced; to outline what the examination consists of; whether contact has been made with any of the airlines alleged to have carried these munitions; and when the examination will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a speech and language therapist in post at the National Gender Service; and if so, the years in which the National Gender Service had a speech and language therapist. [26203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under the age of 18 years that have accessed the National Gender Service; and the criteria under which the service accepts referrals from a person under the age of 18. [26204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for adults to be seen within the National Gender Service. [26205/25]

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Cara Darmody for forcing this issue onto the Dáil agenda. Her bravery in protesting outside the Dáil for 50 hours has forced the Government to sit up and pay attention. However, I want to make a very obvious point: that it is a disgrace that Cara and other disability campaigners, including the parents of children with additional needs, are having to resort to sleep-outs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: There is a chronic shortage of public health nurses in Tallaght and across the South Dublin County Council area. Babies are going without routine developmental checks, which are vital to spotting issues early and referral to appropriate services. Home-based catheterisation is another essential service that has been removed, forcing very ill patients to travel to clinics to access it. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: From the outset of Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine, we pointed out that US involvement there was not driven by any concern for self-determination and the interests of ordinary Ukrainian people but was instead driven by its own strategic interests. That has become undeniably clear under Trump. It is clear the US is only interested in Ukraine insofar as the people of Ukraine can be used...