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Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Last week, the Taoiseach, in responding to Deputies Barry and Pringle, suggested that those who are pointing to the need to address the housing crisis were in some way giving succour to the far right. They were not; both Deputies were very clear about their position that refugees are welcome in this country. Does the Taoiseach accept that it is the case that where there is deprivation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [4420/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: They are not really socialists.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yes, they go along with it. That is correct.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: And followed by the centre left.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach said earlier in reply to me that nobody should be trying to make political gain out of migration. Will he distance himself from the conclusions of the European Council meeting and from Deputy Haughey's comments just now? The meeting represented a further hardening of the fortress Europe policy. The tone was set by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [5894/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: They will be on the street in their thousands this Saturday, 1.30 p.m. at Parnell Square. Finally, I would say -----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Is the Taoiseach proud of over 100 people sleeping on the streets tonight, with a Dunne's voucher and €5 phone credit? Is that something to be proud of?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I am saying the Taoiseach is playing into anti-refugee rhetoric very cynically. It is contemptible.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach says the far right and the far left will exploit the migrant crisis. I am not sure whether he has noticed, but the far right is organising protests outside the temporary, inadequate, emergency accommodation of asylum seekers. What is the far left doing? We are working with others to build a solidarity march to say that refugees are welcome and that these people are not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, I attended a powerful rally at Grangegorman organised by the students' union at TU Dublin in response to a racist attack on international students. Two hundred students came out to say that we will not stand for people being attacked because of the colour of their skin or where they come from. It is exactly what we need in response to the spate of violent racist attacks we have...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with the National Transport Authority to ensure that it engages in finding a solution to the problem of anti-social behaviour targeting public transport, which has, for example, resulted in the withdrawal of services from parts of Tallaght. [7140/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided to assist with security on buses in Dublin and community engagement efforts to help tackle anti-social behaviour targeting public transport, which has, for example, resulted in the withdrawal of services from parts of Tallaght. [7141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Education and Training Boards (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the long delay in bringing forward proposals to regularise contracts and establish a salary scale for adult education tutors, in line with the recommendation of the Labour Court in March 2020, given that the Department of Education has indicated that it is engaging with his Department in relation to this. [7137/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the data and rationale for the newly announced changes to online CPD summer courses for teachers, requiring online courses to have eight hours synchronous time, increasing to 15 hours by 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6573/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if equity of access and childcare issues in a mainly female profession were taken into consideration in deciding to change the requirements for online CPD summer courses for teachers, in order that online courses will have to have 8 hours synchronous time, increasing to 15 hours by 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the impact of significantly reduced numbers being able to participate in online CPD summer courses for teachers was taken into consideration in the decision to change the requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6575/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the data on which her Department is basing the preference for synchronous learning in the new requirements for online CPD summer courses for teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6576/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the announced changes to online CPD summer courses for teachers, given the discriminatory impact the requirements will have on teachers with caring responsibilities, and the likely reduction in numbers taking the courses that will result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6577/23]