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Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2228.To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been told by the National Gender Service following assessment that they will not be seen for five years, as mentioned in a radio interview (details supplied). [31980/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2229.To ask the Minister for Health the reason, given that the National Gender Service indicated in a radio interview that it ‘just doesn’t know’ if its assessment model can identify risks, it recommends against other models (details supplied). [31981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2230.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 2 July 2024, if the program will consider the possibility that the mentioned report may have been produced in bad faith, given the reported involvement of multiple members of a hate group, in addition to serious issues found by international experts (details supplied). [31982/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2233.To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure significant investment into local public health nurses (details supplied); if he is aware of the negative impacts that staffing issues have on patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2247.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 820 of 11 June 2024, the oestradiol and testosterone serum concentrations that are targeted for trans men and women by the transgender clinic in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda (details supplied). [32129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2321.To ask the Minister for Health if it is standard practice for a chiropodist to charge a fee for appointments for medical card holders; if so, if he will consider requesting that the fee be removed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32517/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 2434.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of establishing and running Ireland’s first mother and baby unit for mothers undergoing mental health issues. [32958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Procurement Contracts (11 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how his Department ensures that procurement competitions are run fairly in local Government, and if there is a process for making complaints to the ombudsman about this process when someone is unsatisfied with the outcome. [30593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (11 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or officials from his Department will meet with a group (details supplied); and if not, the reason therefor. [30598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (11 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 3 July 2024, what supports are provided for English language learning for under 18 international protection applicants outside of school, for example, during the summertime. [30632/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [29525/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The way that children with additional needs are failed by this State is nothing short of scandalous. I have no end of parents contacting me who have been on waiting lists for long times and with no end in sight. What it comes down to is the understaffing and underfunding of our health service and an absence of therapists. I will give one particular example, namely, the massive shortage of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It does not seem to me to that the HSE is recruiting because the vacancies still exist.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The far right is on the March across Europe. They topped the poll in six countries in the European Union elections. They came second in another two. They got about 20% right across the EU. A key question is this: how were they defeated? We have debated before whether the so-called "centre" is best placed to defeat them or whether the left is best placed to defeat them. We have seen a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I also refer to the British elections. Ordinary people across Britain are delighted to see the back of the Tories after 14 years which saw corporate profits soar while their waters were polluted by privatised corporations, the number of food banks exploded to an extraordinary level and child poverty increased. As has been said, Keir Starmer seems determined to say little will change either...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: An Post is pursing a privatisation agenda. Tallaght post office, along with five others, is on the chopping block. This will mean that one of the busiest post offices in the State will be closed down. The workers will be forcibly redeployed elsewhere and the community will be left with a much-reduced service in a smaller post office in a different location. I have raised this again and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: Senator Gavan asked whether there would be an explosion of youth unemployment were there to be an abolition of sub-minimum wage rates and Ms McCabe said absolutely. Does she stand over that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: That relates to an increase in the minimum wage generally as opposed to in this area. To quote from the Low Pay Commission, it stated: The ... most common argument was that increasing or abolishing sub minimum youth rates might increase youth unemployment. This argument was made by Ibec, Retail Ireland, the VFI, the IHF, the CSNA and ISME. It goes on to state "none of the submissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I ask the witnesses from the ESRI to comment. Do they think there would be an explosion of youth unemployment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: We should be paying them really.