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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Some of the reductions in the agriculture sector were because of these historical revisions. It is in the report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: While I do not want to get bogged down in this, which is, obviously, technical, there is a difference between the Minister saying none of this is down to historical revisions and Mr. Kierans saying the reductions are substantially down to emissions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: He did. He can check the transcript. Does Mr. Kierans agree with the Minister that none of the 6.8% is down to the historical revisions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Okay. To go back to the LULUCF, the Minister mentioned it is not appropriate to treat this area like we treat other sectors in terms of sectorial targets. However, it is in the climate Act that we need to have a sectorial emission target for LULUCF. We do not have that. The Minister is now saying he has a changed approach. Is that going to result in an amendment to the climate Act? Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister have any concerns about the strategy of attracting as many data centres as we can? We keep adding more and more of them to the grid. They are now accounting for 20% of our total electricity consumption. They are heading for 30% by 2030. Does the Minister have any concerns about that strategy in the context of the explosion of AI? It was not really part of the discussion...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is legal for insurance companies to refuse a person a policy based on a previous criminal record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37126/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, if he will confirm whether properties with minor adaptations (such as a downstairs bathroom and removable handrails) are considered specially adapted houses that cannot be purchased by disabled individuals or their families under current...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, if properties with minor adaptations are indeed ineligible for purchase; and the reason the disabled persons grant application form states that the cost of adaptation works will be added to the cost of the house in the event of a future...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, under which scheme a family is allowed to purchase a designated medical property, and what the timeframe is before they can apply to do so. [37122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the purchase of designated medical property with South Dublin County Council, given that the South Dublin County Council website states that "The period of time tenants will be required to be in receipt of social housing support to be considered eligible under the scheme is 10 years", if this period includes time...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 261. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1345 and 1441 of 9 September 2024, if it is correct that a centre (details supplied) has decided to stay in core funding for year three; and if it is correct that any childcare provider must give three months’ notice if they decide to leave core funding. [37132/24]

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will start with a quote from a parent who put it extremely well: Early years childcare in Ireland seems broken. The staff themselves are poorly paid and move frequently. Parents have to pay exorbitant fees, which become even more challenging to fund if there is more than one child. The Government needs to look at a more wholescale change to the system. There are environmental and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is reported that more bombs are going off in Lebanon now, with an additional three people killed today, and we know 12 were killed yesterday, including two children. This is state terrorism. It is a very clear war crime and I would like the Taoiseach to clearly condemn it in those terms. This is not some once-off out of nowhere. Over the last year, there have been more than 6,000...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach commit to introducing free HRT in the budget? Will he also agree not to limit access according to unjust criteria? All women who need HRT deserve equal access to it regardless of age or income or whether they are in menopause, perimenopause, premature menopause or post-menopause. At the moment, women in this country are forced to pay the full cost of HRT, which ranges...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: In 2015, I proposed a Private Members' motion calling on the Government to accept the Apple tax billions and to spend them on building social and affordable housing to solve the housing crisis. At the time, I told the House the resources existed and it was a question of political prioritisation to end the homelessness and housing crisis over Apple not paying any tax. Back then, there were...

Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to prohibit animal testing for botox. I am introducing the Bill for a very simple reason, which I am happy to explain to the Ceann Comhairle and others. This is a Bill to prevent unnecessary cruelty to animals. There is a ban on animal testing for cosmetic purposes across...

Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (18 Sep 2024)

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

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the infamous bike shelter which the public has paid almost €350,000 for. This is obviously a massive waste of public money but I do not believe it is just that. It is also an example of a private company profiteering off the backs of the public, and the consequences of the outsourcing of basic public infrastructural projects to private companies. I understand the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Government has been happy for months to facilitate it----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: We were trying for months before we were-----