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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: At the Minister's campaign launch, Michael O'Leary stated: We need a government that delivers for enterprise ... it’s vital that we elect a government that gets shit done ... I can think of nobody here, certainly in the current government, who demonstrates more action, more energy ... than Peter Burke. That is more action and more energy for enterprise. Is that why the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Delayed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Saying that is a fact does not make it a fact. The Government has been in power for three or four months. It has not progressed workers' rights at all. It has taken a series of negative steps and reneged on the commitments to extend sick leave and establish a living wage and on the vote of the previous Dáil to abolish sub-minimum wages. I will focus on the latter. The Dáil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is a delay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, it is not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: In 2029.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the lobbying that has taken place from business interests regarding delaying the introduction of a living wage and additional sick leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21248/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 211. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has made provision to protect the employment of 750 workers in a company (details supplied) in the event of a withdrawal of the company from Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date of the Social Welfare Appeals Office decision that a postmaster was an employee and not self-employed, which has been appealed to the High Court by An Post (details supplied). [21819/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of the prohibitive cost of daycare experienced by parents; and to provide a timeline for the implementation of a €200 per month childcare cap, as outlined during the previous general election. [21751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the fact that there has been a seven-year pause on the mid-urethral sling for stress urinary incontinence in women; when this pause will be reevaluated, given the number of women who have been travelling abroad to avail of this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a case (details supplied); if she will instruct her Department to provide adequate funding to this organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21750/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: In December 2015, Aoife Winterlich, who was 14 years of age, went on a trip organised by Scouting Ireland. They went to Hook Head, where there was no assessment of the risks although it was a very stormy day. There was no guidance, no warning and nobody watching. Aoife was swept out to sea and died. It took eight years and the bringing of a court case for Scouting Ireland to finally...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: They have acknowledged that.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, states parties shall ensure that persons with disabilities can access an inclusive, quality and free primary education and secondary education on an equal basis with others in the communities in which they live. Think of the multiple ways in which those rights are denied to children in this State. I refer here to the...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: What has happened in Temple Street is the abuse of vulnerable children. That abuse may have been motivated by a doctor or doctors who thought they knew best, were doing the best for the children and did not need to obey the rules. It may have been motivated by a hunt to maximise income through private health insurance. Regardless of the reason, it is abuse by individual doctors, such as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: He said it was false.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister said they were false.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach agree it is completely inappropriate for the Minister for Justice to act separately from an independent process and to make a finding about a complaint by members of the public about how they were treated by gardaí at the Mothers Against Genocide protest. It is quite incredible that the Minister came out and said footage shows that allegations made in the Dáil...