Results 301-320 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an estimate of the number of vacant commercial properties that could be converted into residential units in the greater Dublin area, and in the cities of Galway, Cork and Limerick. [43571/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Energy Rating (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to estimate the cost of retrofitting all HAP properties to a minimum B2 standard. [43581/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown by local authority of the annual amount spent on local authority housing maintenance. [43594/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide detailed information on the annual amount spent on housing maintenance by approved housing bodies. [43595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1902. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the statistics that document the prevalence of physically disabled persons who have entered Ireland seeking international protection within the past 20 years. [41433/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1997. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the case of a family (details supplied); and if he will instruct his Department to assist with this application to ensure the family will be reunited with family members in Ireland. [41810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2065. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to an attack (details supplied); and if his department will investigate this matter and take necessary measures to ensure these attacks do not happen in the future. [42646/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2647. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of professional bodies the HSE gender programme has asked for representatives from, such as bodies for pharmacists, psychologists, and occupational therapists. [41233/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2739. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the statutory regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists under CORU; the reasons for the delays in finalising the education and training standards and registration bye-laws; the way in which her Department and CORU are addressing the profession’s concerns (details supplied); and if her Department will consider increasing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I join in the thanks to the many workers who make this place tick. I raise the case of the 35-year-old Irish father of three who was held by the US authorities for 100 days. He overstayed his ESTA visa by three days because of a medical condition. He was then taken by ICE and held for two months before being transferred into the regular prison system. The story is horrendous and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount that will be allocated under the review of the National Development Plan to public capital investment in housing, public transport and renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to ensure that every child has an appropriate school place with all necessary supports in their local area in September. [39845/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children still without an appropriate school place for September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39848/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she is taking to increase the numbers of SNAs and special education teachers available to teach in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39847/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase funding for SNAs and SNA allocations for schools to ensure that lack of SNAs is not a barrier to any child accessing an appropriate school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39846/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is the final week of Dáil sittings before the summer recess. When we return, the schools will already have started. The Minister for education previously stated that it was her intention that every child needing special education would have a place come September. Will that commitment be met or will children be left without appropriate school places? Over the course of the past...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: To go back to the 260, will they get offers of school places or will they be forced to turn up outside the Dáil before we come back?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that huge efforts have been made by those in the NCSE, people working in schools and, above all, parents. However, what is happening is not acceptable. This is the last Leaders' Questions the Taoiseach is going to face. He cannot back up the commitment by the Minister for education that every child needing special education will have a place come September. He is sending out...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach might expand on that because the parents I am talking to have to leave their kids in preschool, if the preschool will allow them to do that. In some cases, that is going to be a real problem. In other cases, they are going to have to stay at home - some will not be able to do college courses they were planning to do - in order to mind their children. Can the Taoiseach tell us...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is simply not acceptable.