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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Public transport fares have recently been reduced for the first time since the Second World War. As a consequence, we have seen an increase in passenger numbers which is very welcome. Imagine what moving to free, fast and frequent public transport could do. We know that cutting fares saves people's money, reduces congestion and cuts CO2emissions. More than 100 cities and towns across the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The establishment parties.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Like the Taoiseach is elected.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: It has. Not now-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: This is whataboutery.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Finland and Estonia. [20610/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government of Finland, along with the Government of Sweden, has just announced its intention to ditch its neutrality and apply to join NATO. The latter is a US-led military alliance that is responsible for decades of brutal occupation in Afghanistan and horrendous atrocities in the Middle East. During the war in Kosovo, it bombed hospitals, prisons, embassies and many people's homes....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: If he had a free hand, I am of the view that the Taoiseach would like to sign Ireland up to NATO. However, he knows that he does not have a free hand so instead he wants to chip away bit by bit at what is left of our neutrality. Will he commit to giving people a referendum to enshrine neutrality in the Constitution in order to stop it from being a policy matter that can be changed?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach cannot keep saying it as if it makes it that way.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Clinically appropriate.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline measures taken to prevent abuse of the Work Placement Experience Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce deprivation among lone parent families given the increase in deprivation found in the latest EU survey on income and living conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24513/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules, procedures and regulations regarding the capturing of wild hares for coursing. [24574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules, procedures and regulations regarding the release of wild hares after coursing has concluded for example, if hares are released in the exact location in which they were captured; and the measures that are taken to distinguish which hare was captured from which location. [24577/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to take action to ensure that shareholders in a company do not divide up the assets of a company (details supplied) into individual residential units for the purposes of evading restrictions on carrying out tenant evictions. [24798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the thousands of parents who have children living with a disability that will not be able to avail of the July provision summer programme despite being eligible; her views on the need for a review and update of the current conditions, which needs to include consultations with families regarding their needs;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 550. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will reconsider the decision by Tusla not to apply the 4% increase which is being applied to all other Tusla grantees which is not being extended to area-based childhood programmes due to a legacy issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24544/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 704. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) and its call for homeless front-line workers to be included in the Covid-19 recognition scheme; if he will action direct intervention and support in requesting that section 39 homeless front-line health care workers are included in the criteria and application process for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Mortgage holders could be facing extra mortgage charges of €1,000 per year as interest rates rise. This is the latest part of the cost of living crisis. We hear from the CSO that inflation has hit 7%, making this the sharpest cost of living crisis and squeeze for ordinary people since the 1980s. Irish banks are already charging the second highest rates for mortgages in the eurozone,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that schools provide teachers and all school staff with FFP-2 grade masks or higher in cases in which it is necessary during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23804/22]