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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will introduce a resolution at the Human Rights Council addressing human rights violations in Bahrain; and if not, the reason therefor.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59274/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of PCR test appointments available to book for the past month given the current delays for people accessing PCR test appointments. [59265/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, lines 23 and 24, to delete “, or such other percentage as may be prescribed,”. This amendment relates to the definition of an LRD, which states that the floor space "is not less than 70 per cent, or such other percentage as may be prescribed, of the LRD floor space of the buildings comprising the development", in other words, that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. To clarify one point, where the legislation refers to "or such other percentage as may be prescribed", the Minister is saying that is a power of the local authority, as opposed to being an issue of ministerial order, which is how I would have read it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: I accept the point that large-scale residential developments will not simply be 100% composed of regular housing or student accommodation. We want communities with other things that people need. The point is that this is the threshold by which developments can get in to this special LRD process. If they do not get into this process, they still have to go through a regular planning process....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but it would be a ministerial order that would state, for example, that instead of 70%, a development would go for 65%, based on our experience, or whatever.

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Often in here, the Government accuses us in People Before Profit and Solidarity of being very ideological. How else can the Government's approach to local employment services be described except as purely ideological? The basic approach of the Government is what is the point of doing anything if it does not create a profit for some private company? On the other hand, the essence of the...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is striking how out of touch with public opinion the majority of politicians in this House are. On the central issue of animal cruelty, as Deputy Whitmore has pointed out, it is clear that it is not only the Government, that is, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and, shamefully, the Green Party, that support handing over significant public moneys to the horse and greyhound racing industries,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government has a commitment to universal healthcare. In light of the announcements yesterday, one has to wonder if that is going to be healthcare by Lidl's middle aisle. The way the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, attempted to explain this U-turn and retreat from the previous policy that the Government would subsidise antigen testing by saying that the market...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I asked about the antigen tests.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: It was a Government decision.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach accept it was a Government decision?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach can check the record. We are extremely consistent on this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Education will next meet. [57328/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise with the Taoiseach again the question of HEPA filters in our schools. Yesterday the Minister for Health told RTÉ radio that the expert group within the HSE had looked at this, namely HEPA filters in schools, in great detail and its advice to the Department of Education and to the Department of Health is that they are not recommended. Exactly what the Minister, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Foreign Policy (30 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 288. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding an event being hosted by his Department and the Defence Forces due to take place on 25 November 2021 in a location (details supplied) entitled Support for Enterprise, Research, and Innovation in Defence; and if he and his Department will reflect on the millions of victims of war around the world and call off this event...