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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government talks about tackling low pay and improving the minimum wage but it seems even the currently inadequate minimum wage is being violated by companies through internship schemes. I have written to the Tánaiste and to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, about one such scheme in Creedon's Dog Care in Cork, which sees interns expected to work from 9 a.m. to 6...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sports Organisations (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove fox hunts and an animal shooting organisation from the Revenue Commissioners list of sports bodies that have been granted tax exemption given the fact that they are not involved in promoting athletic or amateur games or sports as required for qualification under section 235 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (details supplied). [44280/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the rabbit haemorrhagic disease variant two, RHD2, exclusion zone specified in the 2021-2022 hare coursing licence has been reduced from 25 km to 3 km and does not now cover the discovery of infected rabbits; and if he will revoke the coursing licence following a warning from the National Parks & Wildlife...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will revoke the coursing licences he issued in view of concerns that a form of myxomatosis that has crossed over to hares could have a devastating impact on the species if it surfaces in Ireland. [44271/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether allowing wood pigeons to be shot for a 12-month period between 1 May 2021 and 30 April 2022 breaches the EU Birds Directive; and if he will remove the birds from the directive derogations or reduce the period during which they may be shot. [44272/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: EU Directives (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason threatened, red-listed birds of high conservation concern are included in the latest open season order; and if he will remove them from the order. [44273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with special needs living in south-western areas of Dublin; the number of therapists working in the area to provide essential services for these children; his plans to ensure that these services which are crucial for the families of these children will resume to pre-Covid-19 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the way consultants and surgeons triage a patient for surgery in relation to elective surgeries; and the location in which this is recorded. [44249/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 270. To ask the Minister for Health the body or agency in which waiting lists of patients who are pending surgeries are recorded in relation to elective surgeries. [44250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Admissions (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 271. To ask the Minister for Health the way consultants and surgeons communicate with the admissions office in relation to elective surgeries regarding patients and waiting lists changes. [44251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of paid views registered on Greyhound Racing Ireland's pay-per-view online channel (details supplied) by week, track and country of viewer since its launch in March 2021; and the associated revenue generated and the cost of running the channel. [44275/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses injured and that died or were killed at Galway Racecourse to date in 2021; if an investigation will be carried out into the high level of fatalities; and if consideration will be given to ending State funding to Horse Racing Ireland in view of the growing number of horse deaths. [44276/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Question Heading for question(s) 313 (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the direct or indirect funding provided to an organisation and a publication (details supplied) in the past ten years up to September 2021. [44277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will stop Horse Racing Ireland's major financial supports to foxhunting groups for point-to-point races of more than €10 million since 2001 given that this funding is sustaining foxhunts whose hunting activities are opposed by a majority of citizens due to the animal cruelty involved. [44278/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of culled badgers that are tested for TB; the number of badger post-mortems for TB that have been carried out by county in each of the past ten years; and the number of badgers that tested positive and negative, respectively for TB. [44279/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (16 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers vaccinated and culled in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will immediately end the cull in view of the findings of his Department funded study which concluded that vaccination could be a highly effective means of reducing the incidence of tuberculosis in badger populations. [44308/21]

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will open with some quotes from leading Fine Gael politicians. First, "I do not, as standard, keep text messages" was not said by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, but by the Tánaiste on 5 November 2020. On 31 August 2021, Deputy Coveney stated: "I do not hold on to text messages for long periods in terms of data on my phone and so on." On 7 September 2021, he also stated that he...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Deputy does not have to vote confidence in him.

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is quite striking that amid all the praise of the Minister, Deputy Coveney, as a great statesman and everything else, there has been an absence of a repetition by the Government of the detailed narrative that he put forward to cover up clear cronyism. I think that is because to simply lay out fact after supposed fact would reveal how ridiculous this is. I will go through a few issues...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Me.