Results 921-940 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish a report by an organisation (details supplied) reviewing its recommendations in relation to the necessity of LNG for energy security; if he will outline the conclusions of that review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (10 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the total costs of the trade mission to Nigeria and Senegal in September 2023, including the costs of the research and materials produced as part of the mission.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18234/25]

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: While there is a lot of rhetoric in this debate about protecting workers, it is necessary to take the veil away from some of that rhetoric from the Government and some Opposition parties. Behind that veil, what they are really talking about is protecting the big US multinationals that have operations here, acting on the basis that big pharma and tech have the same interests as workers. That...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2024 average grade inflation for Leaving Certificate students was 7.5%, in 2025 it will be lowered to 5.5.%, thus the class of 2025 will get approximately 15 to 16 points less than last year, however one in four CAO applicants in 2025 will be using their points from 2024; the way in which she...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State accept there is an unfairness here? There are students this year who, with a given set of results, will not achieve a college place they would have achieved last year or the year before or whatever. There is a fundamental unfairness here. I accept that within this artificial scarcity - an effectively fake market being created for the points system - it is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister of State has probably been inundated as I have - probably more so than me - with emails from worried leaving cert students, parents and teachers about the unfair disadvantage that this year's students will be put at due to the Government's grade deflation proposals. This is not just a question of next year or the year after. It is something that will have an impact on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: We were battered off the roads in Rossport.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: There was Rossport.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Just last week, a plane from Lufthansa flew through Irish airspace carrying about a tonne of munitions to Israel to be used in the horrific genocide in Gaza. I watched a video just yesterday on social media of a beheaded baby in Gaza. Tens of tonnes of munitions have passed through Irish airspace on their way to Israel to murder innocent people. This is not legal. Unless these flights...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with transport will meet next. [12379/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the crucial issue of child well-being in terms of children with scoliosis, in particular three children who had unauthorised metal springs inserted in them by a surgeon. The report was published at 12 noon, so I have only had the chance to read the executive summary so far but it makes for pretty horrifying reading, including making the point that the type of metal is "known...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [12378/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: We really need to take time this week to debate the HIQA report and to try to learn some lessons from the horrific abuse of some children at Temple Street hospital. The Taoiseach made the point earlier that the insertion of springs should not have happened and that responsibility lies with the surgeon. I agree 100%. The question, however, is how that was allowed to happen and to continue....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action she will take to increase capitation and other funding for schools so they are able to meet their running costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17229/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she supports the objective of providing an additional needs class for every school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17230/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the aircraft registration numbers of Irish-registered civil aircraft operating outside Ireland who were granted exemptions to permit the carriage of munitions of war from October 2023 to March 2025, in tabular form. [16698/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Finance to comment on the regressive nature of the tax saver ticket and cycle to work schemes, whereby those on higher incomes benefit from cheaper transport than those on lower incomes; and whether he will make adjustments to the schemes to ensure everybody can benefit. [17457/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 400. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of bodies or agencies of the State within his Department working with data centre companies to advance completion of data centre projects in Ireland. [17272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cause of a death of a hippo in Dublin Zoo (details supplied); and the steps that have been taken by the zoo to avoid this reoccurring. [16546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an independent investigation will be carried out into the condition of hippos in Dublin Zoo after contact by an organisation (details supplied); if the results of that investigation will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16547/25]