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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (30 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 481. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the current situation regarding the spent convictions legislation committed to in the programme for Government. [25553/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (30 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the members of the public that were involved in the survey in relation to the first major public consultation into the impact of deer, that is, gun clubs, farming groups and so on; the research that has been carried out into non-lethal deer population control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25616/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (30 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 536 of 16 May 2023, if he will outline the person or body that will be the stakeholders in the ‘stakeholder working groups to develop recommendations to managing the deer population effectively’. [25617/23]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is very obvious from the response of the Government to our Bill that those in the political establishment have not learned a whole lot from repeal. They should be taking the overwhelming vote for choice that the people gave us five years ago and running with it. Instead, they are hiding behind the sops put into the heads of the Bill before the referendum, designed to appease the Catholic...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: The science here is not in doubt. We have countless reports to tell us how important biodiversity is, how threatened it is, the consequences of a continuation of the destruction of biodiversity for humanity and this planet, and even what to do to protect it. The issue is not that we do not know what to do. The problem is the political will and economic interest to do it. The appalling...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money spent annually on transporting children with special educational needs outside their local school catchment area. [25414/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special educational needs who are waiting for appropriate school places for September 2023. [25415/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the number of occasions on which she has used her powers under section 37A to direct a school to provide places for children with special educational needs. [25416/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to address the anomaly whereby someone who was on one social welfare payment and was entitled to the Christmas bonus, and has moved to another social welfare payment is not entitled to the spring cost-of-living payment, despite having been on a social welfare payment for longer than 12 months. [25362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (25 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 258. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the supports promised to student nurses and midwives, as announced on 13 December 2022, that are yet to implemented, given that his Department issued a circular to the HSE on 27 February approving the payments and the particular arrangements, if he agrees that the €500 subsistence grant to cover the cost of food, transport and other...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Those in the far right like to portray themselves as some sort of anti-establishment force. In truth, I think they are doing the dirty work of the real establishment - for example, those who benefit and profit from the housing crisis in this country, the big corporate landlords, and the private developers. How so? It is by dividing ordinary people, by pointing away from those at the top...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [24737/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask the Taoiseach whether his strategic goals include allowing Ministers to mislead the Dáil. In February 2022, the Minister, Deputy Coveney, appeared before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in regard to an event that had taken place at Iveagh House. He was asked three times by myself and Deputy John Brady whether he had deleted any texts relating to that...

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...