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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that has been paid to an organisation (details supplied) and its affiliated clubs by the Government and or Greyhound Racing Ireland in the past five years, including in the form of loans, grants or payments for mating, greyhound, litter registrations, earmarking, microchipping, DNA sampling services, advertising and so...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Tánaiste to condemn the blatantly racist anti-Traveller comments by Fianna Fáil Councillor Michael Crowe. The Galway councillor was on Galway Bay FM on Monday where he was opposing a house in Renmore being allocated to a Traveller family because of what he described as their vastly different cultures. He even went on to effectively justify the burning down of a different...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the cause of death for each of the 300 animals in locations (details supplied), including euthanasia, gender, age at time of death and the origin of these animals. [47651/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland agreed to reconvene the European Union-Israel Association Council in October 2022, given Israel's actions on the ground in Palestine show it remains a serial human rights abuser and international law violator. [47708/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the provision of school transport for a pupil (details supplied). [47626/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure the provision of school transport for pupils (details supplied). [47655/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be any changes to the assessment to qualify for the working family payment in budget 2023; and if there will be an increase in the payment persons will receive. [47715/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) regarding improved access to the free travel scheme for persons with epilepsy in Ireland in budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47656/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for 2023 to increase funding for youth work and youth work organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to tackle the shortage of qualified staff in an industry (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the calls from the industry for more third level places and a reduction of needless paperwork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 249. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1899 of 8 September 2022, the category private cleaning staff who were working in a hospital during the pandemic fall under, regarding the pandemic recognition payment (details supplied). [47700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Domestic Pets (29 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the regulations on the keeping, breeding, sale or supply of exotic pets, following the commitment in the programme for Government to introduce regulations; if there will be a public consultation; and when the regulations will be introduced. [47652/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: Many people will be scratching their heads today and in the next number of months asking how come we have a supposedly giveaway bonanza budget and yet the vast majority of ordinary people will be worse off next year. More people will be cold and hungry. More people will be energy poverty. Do not take it from me; take it from Mr. Cliff Taylor, who wrote in The Irish Timesthat "living...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is no mechanism whatsoever to stop the electricity companies pocketing the credits by increasing their prices. There are no windfall taxes. The Government will wait for the European Commission to do that. There is no new energy infrastructure, no investment or no guarantee in controlling our supplies and prices into the future. It is the exact same thing with the renter's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 260. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that while the overall allocation to the drugs initiative budget in his Department has risen every year since 2017, there has been no increase in the core budgets for community drug projects since 2013; and if he will increase funding for community drug projects in budget 2023. [47477/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank our visitors for their submissions. To pursue that further, in the presentation from Mr. Courtney, he states, "When we made our recommendation of a 7.6% increase in the national minimum wage inflation was predicted to be 4% in 2023". The Minister for Finance yesterday predicted that inflation will be 7% next year. If Mr. Courtney had that information then and if the projections...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Living, Minimum Wage Increases and Report of Low Pay Commission: Discussion (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: In his opening statement, Mr. Courtney also made reference to "the need to avoid a wage price spiral". Is there any evidence of a wage price spiral in this country?