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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that aircraft engineering apprentices who are in phase 2 of their training which must be completed in Shannon have a rate of pay of €202.78 per week, which is the lowest rate issued by Solas for any trade; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that 2016 was the last time that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of Covid-19 testing sites that are HSE-run in Dublin. [52742/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 587. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been briefed by his officials in relation to other countries offering Covid booster vaccines to those under 50 years this winter (details supplied). [52752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 693 of 4 October 2022, if he will address a part of the original question 'including, in the short terms, while provisions are made for a more robust public service paying for people to get private treatments as is the case for other adult health conditions'; and the reason that this system is in place for adults in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 674. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 693 of 4 October 2022, if he will provide a comprehensive plan for the way that the family forums will cut waiting lists; and if he will outline the timeframe for same. [53352/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount in Euros and as a percentage of the horse and greyhound racing fund that was allocated and used for racehorse welfare, rehoming and retraining in 2020 and 2021. [53061/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm, in specific terms, the amount that Horse Racing Ireland spent on equine welfare in 2020 and 2021 (details supplied); and the aims, timelines and achievements for those initiatives. [53062/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount in Euros and as a percentage of the horse and greyhound racing fund that was allocated and used for horse racing prize money in 2020 and 2021. [53063/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the racehorse prize money pool in its totality for 2020; and the percentage and the amount that was returned in direct tax. [53064/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland is the only country to give direct annual financial support to racing from tax payers’ money, compared to other major thoroughbred racing and breeding nations; the reason that the Government has allocated €72.8 million for 2023 to racing given that this is a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 755. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the €72.8 million that is provided to the racing industry would be better spent on public health and public education, in a time of prudent fiscal management (details supplied). [53066/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on the Circular Economy and COP27, including Climate Justice and Energy: Discussion (21 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank our guests for their presentations and, in particular, for their campaigning, the Fridays for Future school strikes and the activism that has pushed the agenda on climate, biodiversity and the general ecological crisis we face here and throughout the world. I presume some of this will be a little frustrating for them when they go home, because they will have come and said we are...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: To be clear, I am not making any personal charge. I am just giving a description of the jobs the individuals in question had and now have, and it is 100% accurate. For example, when they sit down across the table from the Government, which has Fine Gael in it, it clearly suits the banks to have on their side a former senior member of Fine Gael. That clearly suits their interests and...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I was listening to the Minister's introduction upstairs. It struck me that there is a fundamental difference between the Minister's view of lobbying and People Before Profit's view of lobbying. That explains why we have quite a limited reform here. It is a tiny step in the right direction but is quite limited and inadequate. The Minister said that lobbying is an invaluable part of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the launch of the Irish Travellers' Access to Justice landmark report, published recently by the University of Limerick, which found that Travellers' trust in the Irish criminal justice system is extremely low; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52181/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: In June, the University of Limerick published the results of a groundbreaking new study that examined the relationship between Travellers and the Irish criminal justice system. The report details that Travellers' trust in the system is extremely low and that fears of wrongful arrest, excessive use of force, wrongful conviction, disproportionately high sentences and wrongful imprisonment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. The problem is that it is clear from the research and from talking to Travellers that they do not experience a policing model that is focused on human rights. The report found that half of those surveyed had been present in a home that gardaí entered without permission. They found that 64% of Travellers in Garda custody in the past five years said they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: It seems that fundamental changes are necessary to challenge the systemic racism that many Travellers experience at the hands of the Garda. There are several recommendations in the report and I would like a response from the Minister on three of them. The first is as follows: The introduction of an ethnic identifier throughout the criminal process from the point of reporting to the point...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will indicate her support for a public inquiry into the killing of a person (details supplied) almost two years ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52182/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details in relation to the regulation of companies (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that these companies have increased the interest rates on lifetime loans by 1.37 %, from 4.82 % to 6.19 %; his views in relation to this dramatic increase in interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter....