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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise a particular case which illustrates the horrendous situation facing parents looking for childcare in this country and how unstable and insecure it can be. More than 130 families lost their crèche places last Friday. It is an incredible situation where a particular crèche, Krafty Kids, was evicted from St. Mary's GAA club in Saggart. On 6 October one of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Climate Change Advisory Council says we face €8 billion in fines for missing our emissions reductions targets. The Taoiseach's predecessor, Leo Varadkar, told the Business Post at the weekend the targets will not be met. About 10% of emissions are from heating and using electricity in residential homes. Housing for All commits to bringing in minimum BER standards for the private...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the 2024 climate action plan progress report published by his Department on 3 September 2024. [42884/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the president of Poland. [42883/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has likened the German-led European Sky Shield Initiative, ESSI, to Israel's iron dome. The comparison is not simply that it is an attempt to form some sort of iron dome, but at the heart of the ESSI is Arrow 3, an Israeli-American missile system used by and supplied to Europe by the genocidal state of Israel to the tune of billions of euro. It is...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is me and Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister for Health has the neck to come in here and claim that the pay and numbers strategy is not a recruitment moratorium when the health unions are telling us that is precisely what it is. To be clear, it does not matter to health workers or to patient safety whether or not it is officially called a recruitment moratorium. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 24. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his visit to the United States and his meeting with President Biden. [41382/24]

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will have three and a half minutes and Deputy Barry will have one and a half minutes.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Get new material for the next Dáil.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Write some new stuff.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: This is the 11th time since I have been elected to the Dáil that I have been asked to agree to give tens of millions of euros, now almost €100 million, to the horse and greyhound racing industry. I added it up and, over the time I have been in the Dáil, the Dáil has voted time after time, all in all, to give almost €1 billion to the horse and greyhound racing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Relatedly, did the Taoiseach raise with Keir Starmer the need to stop arms exports to Israel? Britain is a major arms supplier to Israel. Five days before the Taoiseach's meeting, the British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, announced the suspension of only 30 export licences out of 350 to Israel. He was at pains to emphasise that this was not an arms embargo and that the point was "in no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his most recent meeting with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [41384/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will meet next. [36726/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [43251/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: A survey reported yesterday that close to 1,000 teaching positions in primary and special schools are vacant. The impact on students is huge. Tens of thousands of kids are being taught for extended periods of time by unqualified teachers. The situation is particularly bad for schools in disadvantaged areas of Dublin, including in Dublin South-West. The housing crisis is so out of control...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I note the Taoiseach is quoted as saying the introduction of €90 fines for people on job seeker's payments who refuse to engage - so-called -with employment services is common sense. I put it to him that it is not good sense anyway. It is really Tory sense. This is another attempt by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens, to introduce "I, Daniel Blake"-style social welfare...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the publication of Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-Being Framework 2024. [41383/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [36725/24]