Results 841-860 of 11,859 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason she gave grants to three clubs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39713/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of fallow deer, sika deer, red deer and muntjac deer in the country; how many of each have been killed here in the past five years; and the method of killing and the locations, by county. [39683/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 3,325 hares said to have been captured for coursing in the 2023/2024 season were all individual hares or if the figure includes multiple captures of the same hares. [39684/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide copies of the results of post-mortems carried out on two dead hares at both the November 2022 and October 2023 Thurles coursing meetings; and if the release of the remaining hares before the results of tests were received constituted a breach of condition 7 of the licence issued (details supplied). [39685/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the growing calls for a ban on hare coursing, he will refuse a request from the Irish Coursing Club for multi-year coursing licences and bring this cruel blood sport to an end by revoking the current 2024-2025 licences. [39686/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will remove subsection (3)(b) from Section 45 of the Wildlife Act 1976 which allows for ‘the sale by a person of live hares to a coursing club affiliated to the Irish Coursing Club’. [39687/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason NPWS officials agreed to provide the coursers with ranger reports prior to their publication on its website (details supplied). [39719/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of licences that have been issued in the past five years under Sections 23(6) of the Wildlife Act 1976 to ‘capture or kill humanely, or capture and humanely kill, a protected wild animal of a species specified in the licence for educational, scientific or other purposes as shall be so specified’; the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of licences that have been issued in the past five years under Sections 22 (9)(a) of the Wildlife Act 1976 to ‘capture and humanely kill, a protected wild bird of a species specified in the licence for such educational, scientific or other purposes as shall be so specified’; the species involved; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 229 of 5 July 2022 and 105 of 14 June 2023, if the National Parks and Wildlife Service has yet carried out a review of the issue of claimed woodpigeon damage to crops during the summer months, including the collection of new scientific data; and if not, the reason, in the absence of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers that will be held by the resources contracted to augment Waterways Ireland staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39793/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will take to ensure landlords retrofit homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40332/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to include Travellers living in trailers, caravans and/or mobile homes in retrofitting schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40333/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason foster carers are exempt from the back-to-school allowance, given that these children are in the care of the State; if she will agree that the State help fund their return to school; if she will ensure that foster carers are entitled to this payment and pension contributions for their years of fostering; if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request an investigation into the reason a person (details supplied) was only given a one-year residence permit; and if she will instruct her Department to ensure the extension of this permit to three years. [39968/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason greyhound bitches are the only breed of dog that can still undergo artificial insemination, given that it is a risky and painful procedure and has been banned for other breeds; if he will change this law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39639/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is correct to interpret the answer to a previous Parliamentary Question (details supplied) as meaning that during the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021, 12,483 non-coursing greyhounds were whelped; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39678/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that a claim in Greyhound Racing Ireland's latest annual report that ‘378,748 patrons attended greyhound racing events in 2023’ is inaccurate due to the fact that this figure includes at least 87,628 entries by non-patrons (i.e., greyhound owners, greyhound trainers and bookmakers). [39679/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 2 July 2024, if he is aware that the trainer of a greyhound raced at Curraheen Park track stated that one of the dog's owners is an individual banned from owning dogs (details supplied); and the action he is taking to address this. [39680/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Regulations (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the ‘stopped body restraints’ used by his Department to catch badgers are a trap or a snare under the Wildlife Act 1976 (Approved Traps, Snares and Nets) Regulations 2003, which approves them. [39681/24]