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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 423. To ask the Minister for Health for the current status and timeline of the National Gender Service moving to a new location. [22075/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (7 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 478. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of numerous cases of trans people being denied gender affirming care, with care being withdrawn with no reasoning being given (details supplied); if she will instruct her Department to investigate these matters and ensure that trans people receive the gender affirming care they need. [22334/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (7 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 533. To ask the Minister for Health the reason gambling is not covered as a primary addiction under the tier 4 national beds scheme; and if she will consider doing so. [22568/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (7 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 534. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly funded beds were provided under tier 4 addiction services, by month for 2024, in tabular form. [22569/25]

International Workers’ Day: Statements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is a shame that the Minister is not here. I hope he is listening. I do not know whether he or the Minister of State is doing the sum-up and reply at the end. I have some questions for him. This morning, I asked what interactions the Minister had with Michael O'Leary, who launched the former's election campaign, since taking office. I have just received the written answer, and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was interesting that the Minister used slightly different language in his answer from what is contained in the written replies to parliamentary questions. In written replies the Minister states that the programme for Government has set out a timeline that commits to significantly further increasing the income disregards. He left out, quite understandably, the point about having a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I worry that this is one of those promises made during the general election campaign that is then watered down in the programme for Government and that will end up falling by the wayside. In the past few weeks, a number of commitments made by the Government have been abandoned under the guise of the Trump tariffs, by saying that now is not the time for extending. I worry that that is where...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Care Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: During the general election campaign, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael promised to abolish the means test for the carer's allowance. The programme for Government contains a commitment to phasing out the means test during the lifetime of the Government. Will the Minister tell us in which budget the means test will be abolished?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I do not think it is credible to suggest that this Government is anything other than anti-worker. Look at its actions in just the past few weeks - the delay of a promised extension of sick leave. I remember debating the sick leave legislation here. I remember us saying the extension of time should be in the legislation and the Government saying, “We do not need to write it in, but...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The young person has to pay the bill as well. What about them?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: One of the first protests I went on was to demand the introduction of a minimum wage. At that stage there was no minimum wage. Bosses could pay what they liked. That campaign was won and 25 years ago a national minimum wage was introduced. Scandalously, the minimum wage included provision for legal discrimination against young workers. That inequality continues to this day. Around...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the interactions he or his Department have had with the owner of a business (details supplied) since taking office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21247/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The last couple of weeks have seen the Minister abandon a series of promises to workers. He abandoned the promises to extend sick leave and introduce a living wage. Incredibly, he is refusing to scrap sub-minimum wages. People watching this performance might ask if the Minister is following the lead of the most anti-trade union boss in Ireland, Michael O'Leary, who launched the Minister's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: At the Minister's campaign launch, Michael O'Leary stated: We need a government that delivers for enterprise ... it’s vital that we elect a government that gets shit done ... I can think of nobody here, certainly in the current government, who demonstrates more action, more energy ... than Peter Burke. That is more action and more energy for enterprise. Is that why the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Delayed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Saying that is a fact does not make it a fact. The Government has been in power for three or four months. It has not progressed workers' rights at all. It has taken a series of negative steps and reneged on the commitments to extend sick leave and establish a living wage and on the vote of the previous Dáil to abolish sub-minimum wages. I will focus on the latter. The Dáil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is a delay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, it is not.