Results 401-420 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Speech (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is concerned at the chilling effect the proposed Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025 will have on the right to protest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will raise the threshold for eligibility for free civil legal aid to the same level as for free criminal legal aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36519/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Speech (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is concerned at the chilling effect the proposed Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025 will have on freedom of speech; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36517/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Speech (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will remove section 3 from the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36516/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will stop deporting children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has any concerns about questionable marketing practices used by Irish companies in west Africa in relation to fat-filled milk powder, FFMP, and the support given to FFMP exports by Bord Bia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36624/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he will take to reduce carbon emissions from agriculture in light of the recent EPA report projecting a 1% increase in agricultural emissions by 2030 with existing measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36625/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 200. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if clarity on this matter will be provided. [36899/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of qualified teachers working in non-teaching posts in her Department, for example, in the inspectorate. [36709/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any of the 399 new special education classes that were sanctioned for the coming school year have had their sanctioning withdrawn; and if so, the number. [36754/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the NCSE has any role in the admission of children into a school or if the admission of a child into a school is exclusively a matter for the school in accordance with its admissions policy. [36755/25]

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is another week of unspeakable horror in Gaza, with scores of people killed every single day, many of them - maybe most of them - while queuing for food. Another week of aid being used as a weapon of war against starving Gazans by the Israeli, US-backed, so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Another week of distraction, reframing and excuses by most of the western establishment who...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: The year 2024 was the hottest on record. Temperatures were 1.6° above the historical average. Europe is now in the grip of another heatwave. In France, 300 people have been hospitalised, and two people have already died from the heat. They will not, unfortunately, be the last to die this summer across Europe. We urgently need to stop pumping more greenhouse gases into the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the inexplicable decision to cut SNA hours at Firhouse Educate Together National School. The school is already struggling to cope, with only eight SNAs catering for more than 90 children with additional needs. One parent wrote to me to tell me that her son started in the autism unit and with the amazing support of his teachers and SNAs was able to transition to a mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if she will instruct their Department to ensure that schools are allocated the appropriate number of SNAs, in order to ensure that children receive an adequate level of care and that school staff can perform their duties without any undue stress; and if she will make a...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the long overdue publication of this report. AsIAm has pointed out that it is worrying to see references to amending the Education Act, which could delay the action we need to see. All parents know, and the Government acknowledges in all its statements, how crucial timely intervention is, but for many it is not delivered. I will take the opportunity to raise an important...

Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh and the campaigners on this issue. It is outrageous that there are still people today walking around with historical convictions for the so-called crime of being gay. The Government, of course, will say no one should be criminalised for consensual sexual activity, but a working group was set up to examine disregarding those convictions back in 2021 and still...

Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to improve the welfare of pigs by prohibiting teeth-clipping, tail-docking and castration, limiting the use of tusk reduction and regulating sow stalls and farrowing crates. I start by thanking the National Animal Rights Association, NARA, especially Laura Broxson and Dr....

Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I support for the call for statements on Pride. I also call for a debate and a motion to be brought forward by the Government, if it wants us to sign up to this European armament programme called SAFE. It is part of ReArm Europe, and entails €150 billion worth of loans, effectively to be paid for by the public into the pockets of the armaments industry in Europe. It was announced on...