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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2021 will be published. [36011/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Outside the Dáil today were many residents of apartments and duplex complexes, including Hunterswood and Park West. These are some of the 100,000 householders facing serious defects in their homes. They were carrying placards saying "Not our fault" because it is not their fault. They did everything right when they bought their homes. The fault is with the builders responsible, with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have three quick questions. One, when will the Government decide on the report? Two, will the Government agree that anything it does will be retroactive and will the Taoiseach make that commitment now? Three, will the Government commit to 100% redress?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank our guests for their presentations. I will start by asking them their opinion on why the Government has adopted such a narrow approach to qualified entities. What is their attitude to whether the Government should have gone further, in particular on the question of the possibility of ad hocdesignation. It is clear in the directive that for domestic actions, member states could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses. I will jump off from this issue of direct access to multiparty actions. The Consumer Association of Ireland stressed in its opening statement that it is not looking for this and that it does not want it and is not in favour of it. What is so bad about giving people direct access to taking cases together? It is often spun that there is a culture in the US of people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Mr. O'Rourke is not against them necessarily but definitely he is saying the directive is not it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yes, that is fine.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update regarding engagements between the European Union Commission and his Department relating to the mechanism for dispute resolution for European Works Councils and Irish legislation; if the Government has received legal advice on the matter; when the Government will respond to the letter of formal notice...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will confirm a date to authorise the payment of an agreed 2% increase to An Post pensioners, effective from 1 January 2022; and if he is unable to expedite the payment, if he will meet with members of an organisation (details supplied) in order to address their concerns laid out to him in correspondence dated...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under the tax rules landlords are only allowed to deduct the mortgage interest as an expense if they are registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (details supplied); if any of the Dáil Deputies who were not registered with the Board deducted the mortgage interest; if so, if the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedure for updating the Electoral Register; the details of the documents that need to be filled in and submitted by a person to a local authority (details supplied) in order to update their surname after a divorce. [44760/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Budget 2023 (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the requests of an organisation (details supplied) in budget 2023 for modest investment in critical human rights infrastructure; if she will ensure that these are included; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to correspondence which he received from an orthodontist (details supplied) on 5 September 2022 in relation to the children damaged in public orthodontic services and the sabotage of orthodontic services, public and private; is his attention has been drawn to the contents of the correspondence, including the fact that the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted a review into the funding and spending of Greyhound Racing Ireland; and if so, if he will report on same. [38536/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: Why should we continue to give tens of millions of euro every single year to the greyhound racing industry? For me, the key issue is animal cruelty. However, even from the point of view of value for money, over the last few weeks The Sunday TimesIreland edition has exposed the fact that greyhound industry insiders make up over half of all race attendees and that all of the State funding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: The public is funding not only an industry that is responsible for the deaths of 6,000 greyhounds a year because they are not fast enough, but we are also funding the British greyhound racing industry. An analysis conducted by Preferred Results business consultants, and reported in The Sunday TimesIreland edition, found that 6,300 Irish greyhounds are exported annually to the UK and sold at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greyhound Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: The public has provided €310 million for the greyhound racing industry since 2001. That is a huge amount of money, without which I do not think the greyhound racing industry would continue in this country. I think that would be a good thing in terms of animal welfare. Of course, I wish to emphasise that nobody should be out of a job as a consequence of that. There needs to be a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how he plans to meet the targets for cutting agricultural emissions in the lifetime of this Government. [38535/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister has seen the news about the evidence of climate catastrophe all around us. In Europe, significant numbers of people are going to die in the coming weeks as a consequence of the heatwave we are seeing. Yet, in Ireland we are already off track on our already inadequate targets. The Minister is widely reported to be lobbying within the Government on behalf of big...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister outline why he is arguing for the lowest possible emissions cuts for the biggest emitting sector of the economy? Even if agriculture does 30%, the rest of society still has to do 60% to meet the inadequate target of a 51% reduction, on which we are already off track. If, as the Minister is widely reported as arguing for, we choose a reduction of 22%, the rest of society...