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Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I see the Green Party has once more wrestled with its conscience and, unsurprisingly, once more the Green Party has emerged victorious in ditching another one of its so-called principles by signing up with Fine Fáil and Fine Gael to abandon the triple lock. The Government and the Taoiseach like to present this abandonment of the triple lock and this abandonment of a commitment in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: It was the Lisbon Treaty.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department’s Strategy Statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update those goals. [24736/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Last Thursday, I asked the Tánaiste about the illegal eviction that had taken place on Harrington Street in Dublin where unlicensed private security threatened tenants and others with violence and the fact that the gardaí refused even to take statements saying that it was a civil matter. The Tánaiste responded to say that the Minister had written to the Residential Tenancies...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: If he arrives I will be. First, I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion. It is an indication of the scale of the crisis that we have, that Opposition parties repeatedly have to table motions to address these issues. Unfortunately, the statistics contained in the motions get worse rather than better as we have motion after motion. Rarely, thankfully, does the Government oppose a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure an assessment of needs is provided urgently for a four-year-old child (details supplied), who has been waiting over six months since August 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25155/23]

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Refugees are welcome. They are welcome in Tallaght, where I live, in the constituency of Dublin South-West, which I represent, and in Ireland. They are some of the more than 100 million displaced people throughout the world who are fleeing war, persecution and repression. Just as Irish people fleeing some of those things went abroad, along with some so-called economic migrants, we should...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach agree with the Garda Commissioner's statement that the far right is not growing? How does that statement tally with the reality of what we have experienced, over the past couple of weeks in particular? A man in his 70s is in hospital after being assaulted at one of these blockades at Corrofin in Clare. We know of tents of asylum seekers being burned, with some of those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Right now, lawyers are being paid large amounts of money, paid for by the public, arguing in the European Court of Justice, incredibly, that the public should not receive €13.1 billion from one of the richest and largest corporations in the world. If the court finds against the Irish Government and the money is paid, that €13.1 billion could be used to build 70,000 homes. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [22922/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [22921/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the condition of many of our schools. We have some fantastic physical buildings. The Taoiseach was in one recently in my community in Kingswood. That shows what is possible. That should be what we aspire to for all our children to have access to. Unfortunately, many children go to school in buildings that are completely unfit for the purpose of being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: The point is they need a new building but they cannot even get a timeline as to when such a decision will be made.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will agree to the establishment of a DEIS+ band within the DEIS programme. [24396/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the fact that the Irish prison population has confirmed overcrowding issues, if he will confirm whether prisoners who are entitled to early release by international standards are being detained to disguise homeless figures; if this is not the case, the reason for their extra judicial detention; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24913/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of students in the students of sanctuary programme who have been served with a deportation order during their studies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24849/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Third Level Education (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of students with legal status to remain in Ireland that have gone on to higher education in Ireland in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24850/23]