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Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 414. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 11 June 2024, if he will outline, given the National Gender Service was unable to share how much of its clinical staff's time is spent on assessment, how it ensured its outstanding business cases had an appropriate balance of clinical roles. [27904/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 415. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 351 of 11 June 2024, to clarify that when the National Gender Service says it regularly meets people who go on to detransition, how many times per year it is that a patient detransitions. [27905/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 416. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 351 of 11 June 2024, that in the experience of the National Gender Service, what proportion of those who detransition express regret about medically transitioning. [27906/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 417. To ask the Minister for Health what the National Gender Service believes are the risks of transgender people not having access to HRT. [27907/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 418. To ask the Minister for Health what the requirements are for vaginoplasty and phalloplasty for transgender patients under the treatment abroad scheme; and if this includes approval by two consultant members of a multidisciplinary team. [27908/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE acute operations has approved funding for a new location for the National Gender Service; and what consultation with the community was involved. [27909/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 420. To ask the Minister for Health how the HSE transgender lead plans to take into account bad faith international research produced by those that oppose trans healthcare. [27910/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (2 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 421. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of comments previously made by a SPLC-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group in relation to the appointment of the HSE transgender lead (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27911/24]

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: To bail out the banks. Is that what the Deputy is thinking of?

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: How a society treats and takes care of its older people says a great deal about the values of that society. The way that older people are currently treated does not reflect well on the basic values that underpin our current for-profit, capitalist society. It is a society and an economy where care work is massively undervalued and under-provided. Where it is provided, it is on a for-profit...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste wants to tax ordinary households. It is a regressive tax.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: And "The Late Late Show".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: To whom is it being outsourced? Private companies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is at least as important, however, if not more. There is a public health element. One in ten children in this country is suffering from asthma and fossil fuel cars are a major contributor to that. Of course, there is also the biggest challenge facing humanity as a whole: climate catastrophe, for which the fossil fuel companies are the number one culprits. The Minister has been the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has been consulted by An Taoiseach in relation to the possibility of a ban on fossil fuel advertising; if so, what his advice was; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27538/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister has seen the comments by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, calling for a ban on fossil fuel advertising. He correctly calls the fossil fuel companies the godfathers of climate chaos, who rake in record profits while the most vulnerable are left stranded. I asked the Taoiseach about this a couple of weeks ago and he said he would speak to the Minister,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is interesting that the Minister states his Department is not responsible. I got a letter from the Ceann Comhairle disallowing one of the questions I put asking if the Minister would support such a ban. It was disallowed on the basis that the Minister has no official responsibility to Dáil Éireann and that the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland is a self-regulatory...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will support local people and oppose the mining of lithium at Moylisha Hill in Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is concerned at reports that a member of the Climate Change Advisory Council appeared to be repeating talking points from lobbying by the data centre industry at an Oireachtas hearing (details supplied); his views on whether the Climate Change Advisory Council should be subject to the Regulation of Lobbying Act...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support a ban on private jets as a measure to reduce global carbon emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27536/24]