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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...

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

Paul Murphy: The Minister’s industrialised farming system does not work for ordinary farm families. Almost half of farms in this country have an income of less than €10,000. The Minister’s industrialised farming system works for Greencore, Kerry Group, Goodman and the big dairy farmers, but it does not work for others. The figures are there in Teagasc. Instead of incentivising and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to support small farmers who are being squeezed out by large agri-business. [38532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to promote organic farming for local consumption and direct farmers' markets. [38533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that he is taking to promote afforestation and biodiversity. [38534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (14 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 407. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) and its calls for greater co-ordination and planning, stronger communications and engagement with civil society organisations meeting the needs of people fleeing Ukraine and the communities in which they now live; and if he will make a statement on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Lobbying Reform (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: As a member of Fine Gael, does it trouble the Minister of State that Uber wrote a section of its election manifesto in 2016? Does he know if that is the case and, if so, does it trouble him? Does it trouble him that Mr. John Moran, a former political insider and Secretary General of the Department of Finance, was boasting to Uber about how he could effectively bypass the regular registered...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Lobbying Reform (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: This is about Uber. I pay tribute to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for its excellent work in publishing the Uber leaks. It revealed a major corporation, valued at $44 billion, setting itself up as a disrupter, a modern company and so on, but in reality pursuing the old, tried and tested methods of major capitalist corporations. One, it highlighted major...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 17: In page 7, to delete line 34, and substitute the following: “offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, maximum of twelve months’ imprisonment or both.”. This grouping is crucial in terms of the penalty for a breach of this legislation. The current proposal is for a class C fine of €2,500. That is...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 19: In page 7, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(9) An employer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or both.”.