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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (27 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that all of those in receipt of the State pension receive the same increase in Budget 2023, guaranteeing that there are no penalties for those who took time out of their working life for caring responsibilities; and if she will confirm that this will be the case for a person (details supplied). [47003/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Bodies (27 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to reduce the size and capacity of the Criminal Assets Bureau in its move to a new premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the plan to move therapists from the children’s disability network team to special schools; if any obstacles have arisen in the transfer; and the action that is being taken to overcome them. [47080/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (21 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action that will be taken to ensure that Irish citizens are provided with all possible assistance by Irish embassies after citizens’ involvement in a car crash in a foreign country (details supplied). [46169/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: So what? The State could buy the houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Why not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: The State could buy the houses to keep the families in them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is almost two months since the Government received the report from the working group to examine defects in housing. That report is extremely stark in terms of the situation it sets out with regard to defects, primarily fire defects in apartments and duplexes. The report states: "The Working Group estimates that of apartments and duplexes (or associated common areas) constructed between...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [44841/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: From the start of Putin's horrendous invasion of Ukraine, we have raised the need for the State to call clearly for debt cancellation as a significant act of solidarity with the Ukrainian people. We tabled a motion in the Dáil to that effect, pointing out that, annually, 12% of all Ukrainian state budgetary income is currently going on debt repayments and that that was utterly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: How much is the Government increasing the military budget by?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government is trying to do it now. It is playing catch-up now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Tell that to the people in the Middle East.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have been at protests outside the Russian Embassy and I did not see the Taoiseach there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Can I just get one word in?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government appears to be making a habit of attending NATO meetings and meetings of NATO allies. I do not believe it is an accident at all, but part of a conscious drive to integrate this country with a process of militarisation led by US imperialism. I asked last week whether the State was represented at the fifth so-called Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting, which happened in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the recommendations put forward by a charity (details supplied), in particular those relating to issues of pay parity, funding adjustments, and multi-annual funding agreements in relation funding for Irish charities, community, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the upcoming Budget for 2023; and if he will ensure they are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he will take to support fundraising to recover post-Covid-19 through increasing tax and VAT measures to support charities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he agrees that bank charges should be abolished; if he will instruct financial institutes here to eliminate banking fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45672/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Animal Welfare (20 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 1383 of 8 September 2022; his Department’s plans, if any, to improve the security of ports to ensure that dogs that have been stolen are stopped before they are exported from Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45947/22]