Results 341-360 of 12,400 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Military Neutrality (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is concerned that continued flights through Irish airspace of aircraft carrying munitions to Israel are in violation of Ireland’s policy of military neutrality; the steps he will take to defend Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason demand by Government Departments for staff from the 2024 Open Competition for Assistant Principal is so low; the number of candidates he expects to be recruited from this competition by September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28553/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the NCSE does not have certain information readily available (details supplied) given the importance of collecting this information. [28485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a budgetary cap for SNA posts of 23,179 posts is being operated; and whether she thinks that this budgetary cap is standing in the way of children getting the support they need in school. [28493/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Benefits (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the policy whereby someone cannot have their homeless HAP increased to the new increased level while they stay in existing accommodation (details supplied) will be reviewed. [28546/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is science driven.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The legally binding target is 51%. That is the very least of what the science demands. However, we are miles off that and there is no indication whatsoever that the Government will speed up ambition. Things are going in the opposite direction. The EPA report states that emissions will fall by only 23% - that is the best-case scenario - with additional measures that have not even been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: How would we eliminate it?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not to eliminate Irish agriculture.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Correct.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Sometimes, when people are discussing this issue, they talk about culture in a disembodied sense, that a culture that was bad existed. Clearly, there was in this case. However, the culture was created by individuals and carried on by individuals. The top surgeons in question were a really big part of this. The question has to be asked in terms of what the motivation was. Was the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach agree that these surgeons should, at the very least, not now be conducting osteotomies? That can be done immediately and needs to be done immediately. The CHI statement is clear-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: ----- about reviewing operations from 2010 onward being reviewed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It needs to go back to 2002.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is when these operations started.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I do not want "not ruling out"; I want a commitment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: When Emilia was three years old she had osteotomies on both hips at Temple Street hospital. Her mother felt unduly and inappropriately pressured by the surgeon. It started out with the possibility that she might need one hip done and then it was an absolute necessity to get both done. Emilia was six before she could walk property. She was the slowest to do a cartwheel and the last to ride...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: We are authorising it.

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The gap between the words and the actions of the Government on Palestine grows ever bigger because the words get stronger but the Government refuses to act. What happens in debates like this or the one last night is that the Government comes in and effectively complains that it is not congratulated for not being as complicit in the genocide as the states that are literally funding it and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Question Heading for question(s) 375 (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 375. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if she will instruct their department to look into this issue; to take waiting times from other health services such as the NHS into account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27827/25]