Results 5,521-5,540 of 12,298 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if section 37A of the Education Act 1998 has ever been used to direct post-primary schools to provide ASD classes; if so, when this took place; and the location of these schools. [25714/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 6 April 2022, if contact has been made with the National Council for Special Education as no direct reply has been issued to date. [26211/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that while most services will benefit from the 2022 budget provision for the early childhood care and education programme scheme, a significant cohort will not; if his Department has plans to address the matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that those renewing their residence permit are only allowed to apply one month prior to the expiration date of their permit, even though the current waiting time suggested by her Department for a new permit to be approved is nine to ten weeks plus two to three weeks issue and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 583. To ask the Minister for Health if employees in a healthcare setting (details supplied) are entitled to the pandemic bonus payment. [25685/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will urgently issue guidance to general practitioners around the country that exercise should not be recommended to patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis or long-Covid where protein-energy malnutrition is a feature, following the publication of guidelines from an organisation (details supplied). [25893/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of services that are available to both children and adults with myalgic encephalomyelitis; and the actions that the HSE will take to rectify this. [25894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 706. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that have been taken by his Department to ensure the welfare of Irish thoroughbreds and other racing horses being sent to UK slaughterhouses since the broadcasting of a television programme (details supplied); and the measures that have been put in place to stop such transportation of Irish horses to UK slaughterhouses....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (24 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 707. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses sent to UK slaughterhouses in 2021 and to date in 2022. [25901/22]

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The context of this debate is the sixth mass extinction event, which we are currently living through, with a horrendous, dramatic, marked decline in biodiversity. Some 85% of Ireland's protected habitats are in an unfavourable condition, 46% are in ongoing decline and 43% of protected species are afforded unfavourable status. This biodiversity crisis is part of the rift opened up between...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask about the scandals at the top of An Bord Pleanála. The terms of reference of the review have been published and they leave a lot to be desired. They are extremely narrow, dealing with only three particular decisions of the board and only one of the board members, Mr. Paul Hyde. The terms of reference do not include the 2019 case in which Mr. Hyde approved the deeply...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: In 2020, Pfizer, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline all spent more on sales and marketing than on research and development.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: We had a hearing on this in the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment last week. What we heard from the representatives of Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam and the pharmaceutical industry was shocking. Médecins Sans Frontières said literally millions of people have died as a consequence of the failure to give a TRIPS waiver. We heard about the almost $100...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State is closing his eyes to the truth and resting in a comfortable ideology that the free market is delivering. What happened was $100 billion of public money was employed because the public said we needed to develop vaccines and therapeutics as quickly as possible. That benefit was privatised. Earlier, I said they are making $1,000 profit per minute. I meant $1,000 per...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views that an Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS' waiver should be agreed at the WTO in order to ensure access to Covid vaccines and therapeutics. [25228/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste and the Government have condemned the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, but listen to the spokesperson for the Israeli military, Ran Kochav. He said she was filming and working for a media outlet amid armed Palestinians and stated, "They’re armed with cameras, if you’ll permit me to say so". They see journalists as being armed with cameras because the truth of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: In March, the Minister said his Department was studying the Amnesty International report. Has he studied it yet? What conclusions has he drawn from it? Amnesty International indicted Israel for operating a racist and cruel system of apartheid against the Palestinian people, which is a crime against humanity. It stated that Israel deliberately denies Palestinians their basic rights and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider IDA Ireland's expansion of its activities in Israel in view of the finding by Amnesty International that Israel is an apartheid state, the recent murder of a journalist by Israeli forces and subsequent police attack on their funeral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25669/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: In January, IDA Ireland appointed a business development consultant in Israel to deepen links with the state that even Amnesty has now describe as an apartheid state. Given last week's horrific war crimes by Israel with the targeting and assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, including an illegal invasion of Palestinian territory and the horrific attack on her funeral, will the Government now...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (19 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views that due diligence obligations under the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive should be extended along the whole value chain with no loopholes. [25231/22]