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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...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach agree with the Garda Commissioner's statement that the far right is not growing? How does that statement tally with the reality of what we have experienced, over the past couple of weeks in particular? A man in his 70s is in hospital after being assaulted at one of these blockades at Corrofin in Clare. We know of tents of asylum seekers being burned, with some of those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: Right now, lawyers are being paid large amounts of money, paid for by the public, arguing in the European Court of Justice, incredibly, that the public should not receive €13.1 billion from one of the richest and largest corporations in the world. If the court finds against the Irish Government and the money is paid, that €13.1 billion could be used to build 70,000 homes. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [22922/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [22921/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the condition of many of our schools. We have some fantastic physical buildings. The Taoiseach was in one recently in my community in Kingswood. That shows what is possible. That should be what we aspire to for all our children to have access to. Unfortunately, many children go to school in buildings that are completely unfit for the purpose of being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: The point is they need a new building but they cannot even get a timeline as to when such a decision will be made.