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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 308. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are IPAS accommodation centres which have vacant rooms and yet are not admitting new residents; the way he plans to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6836/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 385. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to the €100 thousand allocated to organisations which facilitate the neutering of dogs, this information was not made available to the public until 16 January 2025, two weeks prior to the ban XL bully dogs who will not be neutered by this date; if this deadline will be extended to allow for...

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have to say it has been a pretty depressing debate so far, with a few honourable exceptions. Most of the Deputies have swallowed and then regurgitated the spin from big tech. I find it incredible that we had a speech from the new Minister of State with responsibility for AI and its only reference to climate change is about AI being used to help us address sustainability and climate...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ukraine War (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of all meetings of the Ukraine Contact Defence Group that Ireland has been represented at; who has represented Ireland at these meetings; and the location in which these meetings took place. [6454/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is planning to exempt external wall insulation from planning permission, like it did with solar panels, to reduce the uncertainty and barriers to homeowners who want to get their homes insulated, a necessary step towards reducing household emissions and radically reducing home energy costs; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing times for social welfare appeals by scheme between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Child Protection (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considers it a child protection issue that a 17-year-old boy was permitted to train a racing greyhound to provide a betting product for an Irish semi-State body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding his Department has provided to an organisation (details supplied) for linear profile training since it was introduced in 2019. [6616/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal minimum age for a person in Ireland to obtain a licence to train a greyhound to race; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6625/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the greyhound laurels race final on television (details supplied) on 5 October 2024; the viewership figures for this broadcast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6626/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the fee cost or other compensation paid by Greyhound Racing Ireland to social media influencers for the 2024 Irish Greyhound Derby 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6628/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the 2024 Greyhound derby semi-final and final on television (details supplied) on 16 and 23 November 2024; the viewership figures for this broadcast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are freezers for deceased greyhounds at all fifteen greyhound racing tracks licenced by Greyhound Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6630/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on the current location and status of a greyhound (details supplied) which tested positive for a prohibited substance at Curraheen track in Cork on 17 August 2024 and was subsequently sold at a sales auction at Curraheen greyhound track on 2 November 2024 for €1,100, but is still listed in the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how an Irish greyhound (details supplied) is recorded on the Rásaíocht Con Éireann traceability system as it was found very recently in a stray dog pound in the UK, following a seven-day stay and described as "full of fleas, overgrown nails and muzzle marks to the nose already with dirty teeth", while still being...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the 51,650 non-coursing greyhounds who were entered on the Rásaíocht Con Éireann traceability system between January 2021 and 19 October 2024, by year of birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a status update on his Department's public consultation on the proposal to ban surgical artificial insemination in greyhounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6627/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when Greyhound Racing Ireland's new five-year strategic plan will be published, considering that the most recent five-year strategic plan expired in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds registered at whelping stage with the Irish Coursing Club for each year from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2024, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6677/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the subpar conditions experienced by people in direct provision (details supplied); the measures his Department intends to take to address their concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6639/25]