Results 321-340 of 11,841 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the current understaffing in the National Ambulance Service; how she intends to solve this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9998/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide appropriate funding to a charity (details supplied), which provides essential mental health services in communities and requires funds to continue operations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10006/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allocate funds for financial assistance to radiation therapy students, who are currently under pressure and receiving no financial support, uniform allowance, travel allowance or payment for clinical placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10022/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet [6433/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: On Friday parents of children with additional needs were forced to sleep outside the Department of Education to try to fight for appropriate school places for their children. Earlier that day, the Government announced 254 new special classes in schools. That is much less than the 400 that had been promised. However, when you delve into the detail there are not even 254. I have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is hard to imagine a more impactful measure on the wellness of both people and the planet than insulating people's homes. I want to raise an incredible case in my constituency where a family is being threatened with prison for retrofitting and insulating their home. In 2018, Clive Ryan from Kilnamanagh received a Government grant from the SEAI to retrofit his home with external wall...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was just regular. Then they said that he needed planning permission but he does not have it, and he must pay a fine or take it off.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but so far it has been denied. It has not been accepted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [6432/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Have you read the UN charter?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: What the Taoiseach is attempting to do with this stroke with the Lowry group of Independents is an authoritarian manoeuvre.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: It might not be comfortable for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and their supporters in the Lowry group to hear that truth but this is about diminishing the capacity of the Opposition to hold the Government to account.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Something that has not got much coverage in this-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Government Members can try to shout me down but the Taoiseach and the Government propose to halve the number of Taoiseach's questions in any given week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: At the same time as he pretends to be standing up for the rights of backbenchers, the Taoiseach is halving the opportunities that exist for backbenchers and others. Why is he doing that? It is because he wants to play this game of allowing people to pretend they are in the Opposition when they are in the Government. It will be resisted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: You addressed it yourself.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to address the problem of ghost buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9403/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if will halt and reverse the privatisation of bus routes in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9404/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the evidentiary basis being used to pursue commercial liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in Ireland, to enhance energy security, given the Government-commissioned Centre for European Policy Analysis report from 2022 stated that commercial LNG would provide “...no guarantee that stored gas volumes would be...