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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 6 April 2022, if she will request the National Council for Special Education to provide a response given that none has issued to date. [34008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 611. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schemes that exist for schools to apply for funding for more substantial structural work than would normally be covered by summer and emergency works schemes, for example replacement of roof, walls or the construction of new buildings. [34085/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Services (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 725. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by a number of Irish citizens for example, Chinese Irish citizens holding dual passports among others in relation to the decision to stop issuing re-entry visas (details supplied); if the immediate provision of Garda National Immigration Bureau cards will be ensured in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 773. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase funding for the current long-Covid clinics to provide further funding to increase the number of clinics from just eight post-acute Covid-19 clinics in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33720/22]

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is a very particular context and backdrop to the discussion we are having here on LGBTQI+ rights and Pride. That is the fact that one of the most marginalised and oppressed sections of the LGBTQ community has been subjected to the most appalling, unjustified and untruthful attacks over three days on our national, publicly owned broadcaster, RTÉ, for which we all pay through our...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. What I would encourage people to do is read a really excellent article which was put up online yesterday or the day before an incredible activist called Izzy Kamikaze. It is on the Beacon website. Izzy investigated what happened and wrote this revealing piece about the background to the particular witch hunt on that programme against trans people. She shows quite clearly how pretty...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: When is a pay increase not a pay increase? Is it when a person is on over €150,000 a year? The Secretaries General of the Departments led by Ministers took home €210,000 each last year. Over the next 12 months, they will take home €250,000 each. In anybody's money, that is a pretty significant pay increase year on year. In the context of the points relating to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, there was a tale of two Irelands. On one hand, there was the Ireland of the highly paid and the rich. In this case, I am referring to the top 1% of civil servants who are on €150,000 or more a year. The Government was out across the media to justify pay increases of €15,000, €20,000, €30,000 or more for some of the highest earners in the country....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the level of housing assistance payments given the findings of the latest EU survey on income and living conditions on household poverty among those dependent on housing supports. [24511/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 391. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a stamp 4 visa holder is required to have a UK visa to visit Belfast; and if so, the process for obtaining this visa. [33357/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Inquiries (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 425. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1568 of 14 June 2022, if he will meet with a group (details supplied) to discuss an inquiry given that at the last meeting with the group it was confirmed to have been with Minister Butler on 12 July 2021 in which the group was informed regarding an inquiry that it is up to him and the Taoiseach; and if not, the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 2 June 2022, the way that it is possible that the two horses that were featured in the television programme (details supplied) last ran in Ireland in July 2019 and were then sent to slaughter in the UK, given the previous response supplied. [33380/22]

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: On Monday this week, Fettercairn community and youth centre in my constituency announced that it has had to cancel its summer projects for this year because of the extremely high, unaffordable insurance costs it faced. That story is replicated around the country, resulting in a crisis for community groups, young people and families everywhere. The events committee in Fettercairn said that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise a crisis situation facing hundreds of apartment and duplex owners in a major housing complex in Dublin South-West. Because of fire safety defects when they were constructed, they potentially face being locked out from accessing their apartments with the common areas being closed down by the fire officer. They are being told that each apartment and duplex owner will have to...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: The central point Deputy Gino Kenny made is an important one, namely, that the undervalued and effectively unpaid work of carers saves the State billions of euro. Their work deserves to be recognised and they deserve to be treated properly as workers, part of which involves having the equivalent of annual leave in the form of a guaranteed and legislated-for ability to access respite care....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to Kerry County Council‘s failure to take steps with the Land Registry to speed up the process of building a house for them; and if he will request Kerry County Council to expedite the registration process by writing to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to Saudi Arabia's Court of Appeal decision to uphold a death sentence (details supplied); if he will request the immediate release of the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32829/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request his Department to engage with the National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on issues regarding the military junta’s crimes and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33054/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether as a member of the United Nations Security Council, Ireland must not ignore the continuous human rights abuses being carried out daily by the military junta in Myanmar; if he will ensure that the ongoing crisis in Myanmar is brought before the United Nations Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (22 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take actions to stop the executions of four political prisoners (details supplied) who are prominent activists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33055/22]