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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last week, in the Minister, Deputy Donohoe’s budget speech, he said we would have an inflation rate of 8.5% this year and 7% next year, and he announced a series of increases in various payments, all inadequate and the vast majority below the rate of inflation. One group of people got absolutely no increase at all for the 13th year in a row, and that is foster carers. These are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [46019/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last year, a study published by Tuismitheoiri na Gaeltachta demonstrated that only 23% of parents in the Gaeltacht are raising their children through Irish. Thankfully, the use of Irish outside the Gaeltacht seems to be increasing, but there can be no real revival of the Irish language without its native speakers. A crucial part of that is the education system and treating Irish as a living...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will discuss concerns regarding the energy crisis with an organisation (details supplied) to ensure workers in this industry are protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47940/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Rights (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department takes a different view from the Department of Social Protection on the employment status of workers (details supplied) recently adjudged to be employees through the Department of Social Welfare on the one hand, and through the Eversheds Report on the other. [48408/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 14 September 2022, if he will clarify the definition of the supplement form; if it is a completely different document from the RFA1 form; if the supplement form has a specific name; and if the form can be filled in and submitted by a resident of Ireland at any time of the year,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 329. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the Russian authorities in relation to the abduction and forcible conscription of a Russian national (details supplied) who is a Ukrainian resident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48021/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the high cost of alternative foods for those with allergies, especially those with dairy allergies; if she will ensure there is financial assistance provided to those who have allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a change in policy that would see those who are in receipt of the widow’s allowance also able to gain access to jobseekers' payments; if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in this context; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will request her Department to re-examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has been disallowed the disability allowance; and if the disability allowance will be provided. [48129/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 471. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 412 of 20 September 2022, if he will examine the information (details supplied) and reconsider the request for those workers in Section 56 agencies who have not had their pay restored, to receive a pay increase in line with inflation and the cost-of-living; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that evusheld has not been made available in Ireland given that it has been approved by the European Medicines Agency and is in wide use in Europe and America. [47935/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 635. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a public inquiry is conducted in relation to the lives that were lost in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to help inform the reforms that are needed in the care system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48161/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Inspections (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the health inspection report of a hospital (details supplied) that was carried out in July 2021 and the fact that it reports that the pine ward has failed on matters repeatedly since 2014; the actions that he will instruct the HSE to take to address this urgent matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 639. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the deepening crisis in the provision of radiation therapy to cancer patients and the fact that an organisation (details supplied) has been seeking an independent review of radiation therapy in an effort to deal with recruitment and retention; if he will remove any roadblocks by Government Departments to the establishment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 693. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are approximately 600 children waiting on disability services in the Tallaght area (details supplied); if he will take all the necessary steps to reduce this wait time; and if he will ensure the long-term improvement of these services by filling the need for more staff and college places to allow more...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that has been paid to an organisation (details supplied) and its affiliated clubs by the Government and or Greyhound Racing Ireland in the past five years, including in the form of loans, grants or payments for mating, greyhound, litter registrations, earmarking, microchipping, DNA sampling services, advertising and so...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Tánaiste to condemn the blatantly racist anti-Traveller comments by Fianna Fáil Councillor Michael Crowe. The Galway councillor was on Galway Bay FM on Monday where he was opposing a house in Renmore being allocated to a Traveller family because of what he described as their vastly different cultures. He even went on to effectively justify the burning down of a different...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the cause of death for each of the 300 animals in locations (details supplied), including euthanasia, gender, age at time of death and the origin of these animals. [47651/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland agreed to reconvene the European Union-Israel Association Council in October 2022, given Israel's actions on the ground in Palestine show it remains a serial human rights abuser and international law violator. [47708/22]