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Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: These beautiful and innocent badgers are being made a scapegoat for industrial farming practices where dairy herd sizes have ballooned. With bigger herds and more intensive farming comes more disease. The Department of agriculture admits that killing badgers is not sustainable in the long term due to its ultimate impact on badger ecology. It knows it does not work to control bovine...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Palestinian people are being starved to death in Gaza. We have heard again and again, rightly, about the 14,000 babies who face death from deliberate starvation in the next 48 hours. This is while the Israeli Government is openly boasting about the ethnic cleansing being carried out. Let us not forget that the bombing continues, with 82 Palestinians killed by this indiscriminate...

Planning and Development (Exempted Development – External Wall Insulation) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Exempted Development – External Wall Insulation) Bill 2025: First Stage (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to exempt external wall insulation from planning permission, with the exception of certain limited circumstances. This Bill is inspired by a particular case, that of Clive and Samantha Ryan, who live in Kilnamanagh, Tallaght. In the past week, thankfully, they have finally...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I congratulate the Chair. Apologies in advance. I have to leave in five minutes to do a First Stage speech in the Dáil. I look forward to working with members. Most areas have been well covered, including access to education, with student housing being a key focus, and the question of apprenticeships. The point about corporatisation of third level education is important, and we...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Investigations (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 13 May 2025, to provide details about this detailed examination; the date on which the examination commenced; to outline what the examination consists of; whether contact has been made with any of the airlines alleged to have carried these munitions; and when the examination will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a speech and language therapist in post at the National Gender Service; and if so, the years in which the National Gender Service had a speech and language therapist. [26203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people under the age of 18 years that have accessed the National Gender Service; and the criteria under which the service accepts referrals from a person under the age of 18. [26204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for adults to be seen within the National Gender Service. [26205/25]

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Cara Darmody for forcing this issue onto the Dáil agenda. Her bravery in protesting outside the Dáil for 50 hours has forced the Government to sit up and pay attention. However, I want to make a very obvious point: that it is a disgrace that Cara and other disability campaigners, including the parents of children with additional needs, are having to resort to sleep-outs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: There is a chronic shortage of public health nurses in Tallaght and across the South Dublin County Council area. Babies are going without routine developmental checks, which are vital to spotting issues early and referral to appropriate services. Home-based catheterisation is another essential service that has been removed, forcing very ill patients to travel to clinics to access it. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: From the outset of Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine, we pointed out that US involvement there was not driven by any concern for self-determination and the interests of ordinary Ukrainian people but was instead driven by its own strategic interests. That has become undeniably clear under Trump. It is clear the US is only interested in Ukraine insofar as the people of Ukraine can be used...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am just saying what is happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not happening for housing. It is not happening for healthcare.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will meet. [22479/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent discussions with President Zelenskyy. [22478/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last week, South Dublin County Council passed a People Before Profit motion to allocate long-term housing to victims of gender-based violence leaving short-term refuges. Official figures show that 32 households fleeing domestic violence were forced into emergency accommodation from January to March. However, according to service providers this massively understates the problem. The housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will next meet. [22477/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Residents in Applewood in Swords are facing eviction by their corporate landlord, LRC. There is no good reason for these evictions. These are no-fault evictions. LRC is refusing to offer further Part 4 tenancies, through a legal loophole which allows landlords to evict tenants without reason at the end of a tenancy if it was created before 11 June 2022. This is a tried and tested tactic...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The average rent is now more than €2,000 a month. Rents are rising faster than ever. It is a nightmare for renters and it is getting worse. The Minister for housing is speaking to the media, saying there has to be a change in the rent pressure zones. Extra fear is being felt by these renters that a landlords' government will allow landlords to hike their rents even faster. It is...