Results 941-960 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

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

Paul Murphy: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to respond to the call by an organisation (details supplied) to phase out the keeping of elephants in Dublin Zoo; whether he accepts the evidence provided; and whether he will announce a phase out of elephants from Dublin Zoo, starting with a prohibition on breeding and a ban on the import of elephants to Ireland. [16548/25]

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

Paul Murphy: 623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the case of persons (details supplied); if he will request his Department to investigate this matter to ensure that landlords are fulfilling their legal obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17011/25]

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

Paul Murphy: 630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an exact date for when the tenant-in-situ scheme will be reinstated and made fully accessible to applicants; what level of funding will be provided for each local authority, and the target number of homes to be provided per local authority under the scheme; how the delays have impacted people relying on this...

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

Paul Murphy: 631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of local authority homes that were retrofitted under the Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme in 2024, broken down by local authority and property type; how this compares to the programme's targets for the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17274/25]

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

Paul Murphy: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the Government intends to increase funding for the Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme for local authority housing in 2025 in light of inflation and rising construction costs, to ensure that retrofit targets can be met without scaling back ambition or delaying works; and if he will make a statement on the...

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

Paul Murphy: 633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in light of the ESRI report "Exploring Investment Requirements for Energy Efficiency Upgrades in the Private Rental Sector", which underscores the scale of investment needed and the challenges specific to the rental sector, when the Government intends to implement the minimum BER standard for private rental properties as...

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

Paul Murphy: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in light of the ESRI estimate that €7-8 billion will be required to bring private rental housing up to a B2 energy rating, how the Government intends on meeting this investment need, and whether a funding strategy is being developed to ensure the rollout of minimum BER standards proceeds on schedule, while ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will conduct an updated poverty impact assessment of age-related rates of jobseeker's for young people aged 18-24 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17004/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether consideration will be given to providing a ‘cost of allergy’ payment to those suffering from severe allergies. [17367/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct his Department to examine the conditions in relation to horse drawn carriages to ensure these animals are not placed under excessive stress such as when carrying excessive loads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16669/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the incident in which a foal was killed on a Dublin road (details supplied), in an area with a high concentration of horses; if, in order to prevent this in future, he will instruct his Department to look into setting up stables in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16676/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 816. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of service providers that have pulled out of the core funding scheme since its introduction in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16917/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 952. To ask the Minister for Health if she will prepare a ten year national allergy strategy, including the provision of appropriate training for GPs and those in education and care settings. [17006/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 953. To ask the Minister for Health if palforzia will be made available by the HSE. [17007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 954. To ask the Minister for Health if oral immunotherapy will be provided by the HSE for those suffering from allergies. [17008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 955. To ask the Minister for Health if oral immunotherapy will be provided under the treatment abroad scheme. [17009/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 956. To ask the Minister for Health if oral food challenges will be provided by the HSE for those suffering from allergies. [17010/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It has been almost two years since the publication of Dr. Shannon's report on sex abuse of children at St. John Ambulance. The report makes for harrowing reading. The report found that a culture had facilitated the potential grooming of children and that the organisation had failed to intervene, despite knowing that the boys were at risk of abuse. It concluded that the organisation had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Financial Instruments (3 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not a question of language. The Minister might find it offensive for it to be said that he is complicit in genocide but it is the truth. He says he condemns what is happening in Israel. That is good but then the Central Bank is allowing this to happen. It is helping it to be financed. That is a fact. We can see the way these bonds are advertised online as facilitating its "war" in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Financial Instruments (3 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am not about tolerance of genocide or civility towards genocide.