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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Okay, great. The other thing I raised my eyebrows at in the opening statement was that the only mention of the environment referred to the global environment for business. Does the Minister of State consider it an important part of her job to weigh up the intense damage that could be done to our environment, in particular as a result of the massive use of electricity and water? Is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a detailed roadmap for implementing the promise in the programme for Government to “Continue to reduce the Student Contribution Fee over the lifetime of the Government”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37581/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount the student contribution fee will be for the 2025-26 academic year and the 2026-27 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 484. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he recognises that investing €15 million per annum in the Post Office Network is not only good value for money but essential to maintain critical public access points in communities across the country as suggested by a union (details supplied). [37534/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 485. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the Government not yet committed to a sustained annual investment of €15 million to safeguard vital services nationwide (details supplied). [37535/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 486. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has assessed the cost to the State and to the communities if the Post Office Network continues to decline due to the lack of structured multi-annual funding. [37536/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 487. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will commit to using the Post Office Network as a delivery partner for more public services such as form generation, tourist information, register of electors and enabling all postmasters to become peace commissioners, to ensures that the €15 million investment delivers even greater community and economic...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commemorative Events (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 490. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the date and location for the international day of famine commemoration in 2025 will be announced; and whether he agrees that from 2026 onwards, it should take place on the same date as the national famine commemoration. [37783/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 836. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the purpose and current status of a systematic review on the outcomes of interventions for gender dysphoria in adults, which National Gender Service staff are involved in (details supplied). [37511/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 846. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will instruct their Department to make oral immunotherapy as well as medicines such as omalizumab more widely available, to ensure situations like this do not happen again.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37593/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 848. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if the Government plans to expand access to medicinal cannabis for a larger scope of illnesses beyond what is currently offered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37665/25]

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: We in People Before Profit are strongly opposed to the two safe country motions we have before us and that I will focus on in the time available. These are draconian motions that designate countries with appalling human rights records, such as Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, as safe. The motions allow for people to be deported to so-called safe third countries even when they have no connection...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: As the Minister will know, there is a two-tier system in place in respect of homeless HAP. Those who entered the scheme after July 2022 are able to access a higher rate than those who entered before that time. This has resulted in an unjust situation where people are faced with the prospect of renewed homelessness in order to be able to access the higher rate. I will give an example from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Every time we raise this issue, we get the same response from the Government, which is, basically, to ask why we are not thanking it for all it is doing and for not being as bad as the western states that arm, fund and enable this genocide? I am sorry. We, and the public, have a higher standard of no complicity in the genocide. That is not only a moral standard; it is a legal standard....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Constantly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, 94 Palestinians were killed in Gaza. Forty-five of them were killed while waiting for aid from the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Today, so far, 87 people have been killed, and every day has a similar horrific number of casualties. In just one month, 600 Palestinians have been killed and more than 4,200 have been wounded by Israeli fire near aid distribution sites. A...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pigmeat Sector (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: What provoked me to introduce this Bill was undercover investigations carried out by the National Animal Rights Association and Animal Rebellion Ireland. There were two separate investigations on six different farms, chosen at random. Video evidence was produced, which I watched. It was horrendous. The Department has been sent the footage but I do not know if the Minister has had a chance...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pigmeat Sector (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Pigs are highly intelligent, sociable creatures. The farms were selected at random and all of them demonstrated horrific conditions for pigs. They were in a desperate state. Dead pigs were just lying there, as were pigs that were severely injured and heading towards death. Pigs were trapped in very small spaces. They are in grim indoor spaces and they never go outside in their whole...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pigmeat Sector (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outlaw teeth-clipping, tail-docking and castration in pig farming and regulate sow stalls and farrowing crates to have an area of not less than 5 sq. m, so as to improve animal welfare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36640/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pigmeat Sector (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last Tuesday, I introduced a Bill to ban pig mutilation, sow stalls and farrowing crates, which the EU has already committed to phase out and for which the Minister is already giving grants to farmers to move away from. The question is whether he will take a lead on this, as the Government did under pressure from campaigners on fur farming, where it moved ahead of the rest of the European...