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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support increasing the national minimum wage to €17 per hour to address the cost of living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50126/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support a substantial increase in the national minimum wage in 2026 to address the cost of living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50125/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has analysed the impact on child poverty of the previous Minister's decision to more than double penalty cuts to jobseekers' payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50504/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have had their jobseekers' payments cut, by month, to date in 2025; the amount deducted from payments as a result; to compare this with previous years; if his Department has analysed the impact this has had on child poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50505/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the reason persons from Ireland provided more submissions than all other EU states combined, in response to the call for experiences of people to explore the implementation of Directive 2019/1937 (Whistleblowing Directive); and if he is satisfied that the Directive has been properly transposed. [50939/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide an ASD unit at a school (details supplied); and the timeline for this provision. [50917/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a child (details supplied) who has been diagnosed with autism while in secondary school and needs a place in an ASD unit; and in view of the fact the child’s current school does not have such a unit, to be facilitated in transferring to another school with an appropriate unit. [50918/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the function of the Traveller Accommodation Unit (TAU); the means by which funds from the TAU are allocated for housing in traveller communities; whether the funds can be used to staff traveller liaison officers, or other key support workers in Local Authorities; the amount of funding local authorities are allowed...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the review of the Multi Unit Developments Act. [50919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 346 of 27 February 2024, and Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 7 March 2023 and Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 29 November 2017, to provide an update on the progress on the payment of an ex-gratia payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have apologies from Deputy Coppinger. Our group will divide the time equally between the three of us. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. One thing it does very well is draw a straight line between handouts for big business and child poverty and homelessness. It is utterly scandalous that the Government is planning to hand over €675 million in unnecessary...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine overflights of Ireland of munitions to Israel without authorisation; and when this examination commenced and will be completed. [50689/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the harm to the environment caused by the Asian hornet; and if he will instruct his Department to investigate the issue and ensure the population of this invasive species is under control. [50686/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I seek confirmation from the Government that it agreed to have statements next week on Gaza. I think we do have that confirmation. We might get an initial response. Micheál Martin made a significant statement at the UN yesterday opposing the right of Palestinians to self-determination. Is that now the position of the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank all of the witnesses. Often when we think about AI, we just think about ChatGPT and asking it to summarise this for me, but it is behind much of the technology that we use in our lives. It is very pervasive. One example of that is recommender algorithms, which are run on AI. It is AI-driven technology. There have been shocking studies on it in DCU and other universities. You buy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Children's Rights Alliance in its submission made a point about the EU AI Act and that recommender algorithms were counted as high risk in an earlier draft but then got dropped entirely. Does Ms Blackwell have an opinion on why it was dropped?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is a good place to start. I thank the witnesses for all the presentations. I was struck by what Mr. Joyce said about the algorithms acting as vectors of harmful content, reinforcing and amplifying content that is harmful and so on. He made a call to pay more attention to recommender systems. We spoke about this in the earlier session. Will the Irish Traveller Movement support the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Joyce. I will turn to BeLonG To, who raised many of the same points about people being force-fed anti-LGBTQ, racist, far-right or pro-eating disorder content because it works for the tech giants. Then you have the added issue with AI and the algorithms effectively outing people without AI having the intent to do it in the sense that AI does not have intent. Similarly, is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: It came up a little bit earlier. It is possible to have social media without these algorithms. It is possible for people to choose themselves what they want. We do not have to have this fed to people. The companies do not want to do it because this is the magic that enables them to keep people's attention and then to sell more ads, etc. It is driven by profit. It is not driven by...