Results 421-440 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the higher rates of homeless HAP are made available to people currently in rental accommodation so that they do not have to become homeless first to access the higher rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35891/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the State will directly build social housing projects that were to be built using PPPs, in light of the escalating costs associated with PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35889/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to protect students from rent increases when the planned new legislation comes into force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that existing tenants with pre-March 2026 tenancies cannot be evicted, either between now and March 2026, or post-March 2026, so that landlords can reset the rent to market rates for new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35888/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to end child homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35890/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he plans to make provision for private individuals to be able to charge their EV from their home in circumstances in which their wire would have to cross a public footpath due to not having a private front garden. [36102/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to investigate the proposed redesignation of mild general learning disability (MGLD) schools, allowing for a full consultation to take place and ensuring that children with MGLD continue to have the right to access special school placements that suit their needs; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a case (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department to review this case and ensure that the child in question is able to attend the special school in the 2025-2026 school year. [35690/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the March 2026 legislation, a tenancy in shared rental accommodation can be considered to have ended for all tenants if one tenant leaves; if the rent can then be reset to market rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made on establishing a deposit protection scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 836. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children shortlisted for evacuation to Ireland for medical reasons who have died while awaiting evacuation; the reason there is a significant delay in evacuating children; and the steps she is taking to ensure that children who are shortlisted for evacuation for medical reasons are quickly evacuated. [36074/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures for idiopathic scoliosis on public patients in a private hospital (details supplied) that have been conducted in each of the past three years; the average patient length of stay of these operations; to outline the funding arrangements for the surgical team; and whether this public private treatment programme has been reviewed in the...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: This Bill is a very serious attack on freedom of speech and the right of people to protest. Mo Chara from Kneecap is being prosecuted in Britain for opposing the genocide and expressing solidarity with Palestine, and now the Government here is trying to pass legislation that would allow him to be prosecuted here too. Section 3 of the Bill expands the legal definition of provocation of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: When Russia invaded Ukraine, schools organised shows of solidarity with Ukraine but when it comes to Israel's genocide in Gaza, some teachers are being silenced and their clothing choices are being policed. I contacted the Minister recently about Harcourt Terrace Educate Together National School where members of staff have been told not to wear their Keffiyeh scarves. Keffiyehs are simple...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will abolish the TV licence and replace it with a tax on big tech companies to fund public service broadcasting. [35187/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The TV licence is a regressive, unjust tax.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The richest household in the country has to pay the same €160 as the poorest eligible household in the country.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Increasing numbers of people are voting with their feet and boycotting the TV licence. Will the Minister read the writing on the wall, scrap this regressive tax and replace it with a levy on big tech corporations?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. I presume he accepts that the tax is deeply unpopular. Licence sales have plummeted since the Tubridy scandal and everything else that came out in terms of the behaviour of those at the top of RTÉ. In 2022, €950,000 was paid. This dropped to €825,000 in 2023 and €790,000 in 2024. This represents a drop of more than 155,000 households that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister might tell us if considers all the countries across Europe that have abolished TV licences not to be constitutional democracies. Is the test of being a constitutional democracy having a TV licence? He might clarify that. I presume he is aware that just over one third of funding for RTÉ and public service broadcasting comes from the TV licence. It is not even where a...