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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Ms Maguire said earlier it is about peacekeeping. This provides for sending troops abroad not on peacekeeping missions but on international security missions.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel, he will direct the Central Bank to stop facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27946/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether he has a duty under the Genocide Convention to stop the Central Bank from facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether Israeli war bonds, whose sale is facilitated by the Central Bank, are financing the genocide in Gaza; his further views on whether the Central Bank and his Department are complicit in genocide as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27949/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Sanctions (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel, he will impose financial sanctions on the state of Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Sanctions (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of the value of financial assets held in Ireland by Israeli state entities and by companies registered in Israel; his views on whether these assets should be frozen in light of the genocide being carried out by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he will take the address the concerns raised about the use of AI in the public service by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measurement that has been carried out of the impact on carbon emissions of expanding the use of AI in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28130/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the new actions he will take against the state of Israel in light of the duty of the State to prevent genocide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27405/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Military Neutrality (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is concerned that continued flights through Irish airspace of aircraft carrying munitions to Israel are in violation of Ireland’s policy of military neutrality; the steps he will take to defend Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason demand by Government Departments for staff from the 2024 Open Competition for Assistant Principal is so low; the number of candidates he expects to be recruited from this competition by September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28553/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the NCSE does not have certain information readily available (details supplied) given the importance of collecting this information. [28485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a budgetary cap for SNA posts of 23,179 posts is being operated; and whether she thinks that this budgetary cap is standing in the way of children getting the support they need in school. [28493/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Benefits (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the policy whereby someone cannot have their homeless HAP increased to the new increased level while they stay in existing accommodation (details supplied) will be reviewed. [28546/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is science driven.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The legally binding target is 51%. That is the very least of what the science demands. However, we are miles off that and there is no indication whatsoever that the Government will speed up ambition. Things are going in the opposite direction. The EPA report states that emissions will fall by only 23% - that is the best-case scenario - with additional measures that have not even been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: How would we eliminate it?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not to eliminate Irish agriculture.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Correct.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Sometimes, when people are discussing this issue, they talk about culture in a disembodied sense, that a culture that was bad existed. Clearly, there was in this case. However, the culture was created by individuals and carried on by individuals. The top surgeons in question were a really big part of this. The question has to be asked in terms of what the motivation was. Was the...