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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can clarify if recent EPA projections of GHG emissions for the next two carbon budget adequately account for the projected overshoot in emission in the budget to 2025; if the subsequent budget for 25-30 reflects a reduced budget as a result of the first budget overshoot; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: The way that the workers at Tara Mines have been treated is utterly disgraceful. They found out that they are to be temporarily - they do not know for how long - laid off yesterday. Some of them found out through watching the Nine O'Clock News that, effectively, they will be left without pay. The company says it is due to a variety of factors in terms of zinc prices, inflation, energy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health is next due to meet. [28612/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [28611/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the Taoiseach about an issue arising from information I gathered from parliamentary questions to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, which reveal a significant delay in the roll-out of smart meters for people who have solar panels installed in their homes. More than 1,000 families are waiting up to four months for a smart meter and close to 1,000 have...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: This is extremely simple. There is nothing complicated here. There is no need to wait for a year or get a load of reports. This is extremely simple. We need to end the situation whereby young people are discriminated against on the basis of their age. We need to end the situation where they are super-exploited while, legally, the Government is saying it is okay. We need to end the...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: He charges them for uniforms.

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: He charges them for uniforms.

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy would not know that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that the Minister of State is not the line Minister, but he did say he appreciated the opportunity to update the House on this important matter. He did not really provide that much of an update, however, apart from the fact, which we know from The Irish Times, that the code of practice, which has been referred to previously in the Dáil, is being developed. What is worrying...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is almost a year since the Government received the report of the working group to examine defects in housing. Laid out in the report is a shocking tale of builders cutting corners and using loopholes inserted by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in terms of self-certification with devastating consequences for apartment and duplex owners. The report suggests that a majority of apartments and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the circumstances surrounding the death of a critically endangered sturgeon in the River Suir in Clonmel, as confirmed by Inland Fisheries Ireland (details supplied); the cause of death; if fishing activities, including hooking, netting or removal from the water, were a factor in the fish's death; the reason the rare...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ask the Luas provider to address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied), including what steps the provider will take to tackle the problems raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the booking system for NCT testing if he will ensure that no money is taken from applicants by a company (details supplied) until the week of the NCT appointment. [28761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a report in the media (details supplied) relating to alleged hare coursing activities during a burial at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Thurles, County Tipperary, which reportedly left a hare dead after the animal was savaged by a released greyhound; and if the NPWS division of his Department will investigate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 5 July 2022, if, the NPWS carried out a review of the issue of pigeon damage to crops during the summer months, including the collection of new scientific data, with a view to informing decisions for future declarations; if the findings of the review will be published; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the findings of a NPWS study which revealed that coursed hares fared worse than uncoursed hares when released back to the wild (details supplied), and in view of majority support for a coursing ban in both rural and urban areas, he will refuse a 2023-24 licence for hare coursing. [28714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses injured and killed at the 2023 Punchestown horse racing festival; the nature of the injuries; how many horses had their final race at the festival and were later killed elsewhere; and if consideration will be given to ending State funding to Horse Racing Ireland in view of the growing number of horse deaths at...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the six-month portion that a one-year jockey licence withdrawal (which was suspended on condition that no further breaches occurred), will now be reimposed given that racecourse stewards suspended the jockey in question for 21 days in May for a separate matter (details supplied). [28709/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 28 March 2023, his views on whether there needs to be an investigation to establish what is and is not the children's burial ground before the words 'children's burial ground' are used to describe the memorial garden; and if he will ensure that these investigations...