Results 1,161-1,180 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look into the case of a child (details supplied) who has still not been offered a place in a special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10373/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if they will instruct his Department to reevaluate partnerships with private companies supplying food as part of the hot school meal programme to ensure that nutritional needs of the students are being met and waste kept to a minimum. [10358/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will instruct his Department to examine the current laws surrounding concurrent sentences in order to ensure sentencing is fair, effective, and accountable to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the news story of five horses being put down after being found ill on an Irish transport in subpar conditions (details supplied); if he will launch an investigation into the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10344/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Consultations (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 351. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific timeline for making the results of his Department’s consultation on surgical artificial insemination in greyhounds available for public review, and in respect of any next steps following this consultation. [10377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Regulations (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 352. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update and specific timeline as to when we can expect the publication and entry into force of the regulations banning the use on dogs and cats of electronic shock collars operated by hand-held remote controls. [10378/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to extending the accommodation recognition payment of €800 monthly in its current state until at least the end of the year in order to continue to support households which have taken in families fleeing from war; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10381/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 410. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the exact number of children on hormone blockers in Ireland currently. [10349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in Ireland who have had gender-affirming surgery. [10350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 412. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who were referred abroad for gender affirming surgery; and where exactly they are being referred to. [10351/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children being prescribed gender affirming hormones in Ireland. [10352/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults being prescribed gender affirming hormones in Ireland. [10353/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 415. To ask the Minister for Health if the Gender Service instructed GPs in Ireland to stop hormone testing for trans people. [10354/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 416. To ask the Minister for Health whether the free HRT scheme apply to trans women; and the criteria that will be used to make the assessment. [10355/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to expanding the free contraceptive scheme to include long-term, hormone-free contraceptives for women such as the mini-TT 380 copper coil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10382/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the reason children over the age of 16 years are required to use adult accident and emergency services rather than the children’s hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10383/25]

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Bhí oibrithe na heagraíochtaí Gaeilge amuigh ar stailc an tseachtain seo caite. Bhí siad go tógáil raic agus iad i mbun ágóidíochta in aghaidh na gciorruithe atá á gearradh orthu. Deir siad go bhfuil sé soiléir anois go bhfuil struchtúr maoinithe Fhoras na Gaeilge briste. Tá thart ar €17 milliún...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: We are in the midst of a manufactured moral panic. To divert attention from away from its failures on housing, health, disability and climate, the Government prefers to have endless statements on policing and to pass more laws that erode our civil liberties. The programme for Government contains a frightening litany of attacks on civil liberties, all under the guise of getting tough on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Taoiseach aware of the report into hip operations at Children's Health Ireland, which has been reported on in The Ditch? It suggests, incredibly, that nearly 80% of hip operations carried out on children in Cappagh hospital, and 60% of those operations in Temple Street, were unnecessary surgeries done on children. A whistleblower suggests they may have been done "purely for financial...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: The motion is right that there has been a lot of waste by this Government so far and by successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments down through the years. The motion and the analysis and speeches we have heard from the proposers, however, fail to look under the bonnet and figure out why this waste is happening. The solutions proposed would actually make things even worse. The...