Results 881-900 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1881. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacancies on CDNTs in the CHO7 area and the total number of assigned posts to CDNTs in the CHO7 area, by position and team, in tabular form. [20215/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1882. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting to be seen by CDNTs in the CHO7 area, categorised by team and number of weeks waiting, in tabular form. [20216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 1883. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way his Department plans to prevent service providers that have pulled out of the core funding scheme for childcare from introducing fee increases on service users; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20219/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care of the Elderly (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2228. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the HSE provides a significant increase in annual funding, at a minimum to 2007 levels, to a centre (details supplied) for senior citizens, in order to enable its continued operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19807/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Aids and Appliances (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2229. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the CMO’s report, Use of Uro-Gynaecological Mesh in Surgical Procedures, and of the report from the HSE’s national vaginal mesh implant oversight group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19808/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2318. To ask the Minister for Health the number of current vacancies and the number of assigned posts for public health nurse positions for CHO7; and the number of public health nurses required by population, as projected by Sláintecare guidelines, categorised by area, in tabular form. [20217/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Primary Care Services (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2319. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for psychology, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy in primary care, in CHO7; the corresponding waiting time in weeks, by area, in tabular form. [20218/25]

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is incredible to listen to TD after TD from the Opposition but also from the Government give out about all the failures of Irish Water, which are very real, and appeal for intervention by the Minister. I will do the same in a moment, but it speaks to the failure of Irish Water as an institution, the only real rationale of which was to take the public assets previously in the hands of...

Building Energy Rating (BER) Standards for Private Rented Accommodation Bill 2025: First Stage (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992 to provide for minimum Building Energy Rating (BER) standards for private rented accommodation and for related matters. My office was first approached by the Irish Green Building Council about bringing in minimum BER standards for the private rented sector. I...

Building Energy Rating (BER) Standards for Private Rented Accommodation Bill 2025: First Stage (10 Apr 2025)

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

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Some 3.5 million pigs are slaughtered in Ireland every year. We do not see them much because they are largely confined indoors, in big metal sheds. However, thanks to undercover investigations by the National Animal Rights Association and Animal Rebellion, we know what is going on inside these sheds, and real horrors are happening to these pigs. Six farms have been randomly selected and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister think this kind of treatment of pigs is acceptable, and will the Government bring in legislation to stop it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the climate action plan for 2025 will be published; the way in which the actions in it for this year can be implemented when it is four months into the year and it has not yet been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17928/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Action Plan (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sure I will be very satisfied with the Minister’s answer. We are in April, the fourth month of the year, and the Minister still has not published the climate action plan for 2025. Will the Minister tell me when it is going to be published? What has the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Lowry Government taken out from the draft plan that was submitted last December, before they came...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I did support the climate Act. The Government is not implementing it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister correct the record in respect of the climate Act?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the role of data centres and capacity payments in pushing up the cost of energy for households and privatising the energy system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17930/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was recently reported that householders collectively paid approximately €454 million per year in capacity payments to data centres between 2007 and 2018. Since then, it has more than doubled to €1 billion per year. With 11 more data centres under construction and applications for 30 more, this massive subsidy form ordinary people to data centres is only going to grow. Is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: That sounded like an admission that data centres are pushing up household energy prices. The Minister of State might confirm that the Government accepts that is happening. That means the crazy data centre policy of the Government to allow big tech to come here and dump as much of this 21st century toxic waste as it can is not only driving us further from our climate goals, where the extra...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Centres (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: On the question of jobs, the Minister of State might confirm how many jobs are directly in data centres. Would I be correct in saying that there are fewer than 3,000 jobs in data centres? For a sector that is going to be using 30% of our electricity by 2030, the waste of electricity and water, and the impact that has on housing construction and other issues, is quite incredible. We...