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Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Write some new stuff.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: This is the 11th time since I have been elected to the Dáil that I have been asked to agree to give tens of millions of euros, now almost €100 million, to the horse and greyhound racing industry. I added it up and, over the time I have been in the Dáil, the Dáil has voted time after time, all in all, to give almost €1 billion to the horse and greyhound racing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Relatedly, did the Taoiseach raise with Keir Starmer the need to stop arms exports to Israel? Britain is a major arms supplier to Israel. Five days before the Taoiseach's meeting, the British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, announced the suspension of only 30 export licences out of 350 to Israel. He was at pains to emphasise that this was not an arms embargo and that the point was "in no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his most recent meeting with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [41384/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will meet next. [36726/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [43251/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: A survey reported yesterday that close to 1,000 teaching positions in primary and special schools are vacant. The impact on students is huge. Tens of thousands of kids are being taught for extended periods of time by unqualified teachers. The situation is particularly bad for schools in disadvantaged areas of Dublin, including in Dublin South-West. The housing crisis is so out of control...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I note the Taoiseach is quoted as saying the introduction of €90 fines for people on job seeker's payments who refuse to engage - so-called -with employment services is common sense. I put it to him that it is not good sense anyway. It is really Tory sense. This is another attempt by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens, to introduce "I, Daniel Blake"-style social welfare...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the publication of Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-Being Framework 2024. [41383/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [36725/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education and Disability will meet next. [36724/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Strategic Infrastructure (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if data centres, as well as LNGs, will be designated as strategic infrastructure under the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42879/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is Government policy to sell off public land to private developers at minimal cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42878/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct Revenue to remove interest on a repayment from a school (details supplied). [42407/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make representations to the Minister for Finance and the Revenue on behalf of a school (details supplied), requesting that no interest be charged on a payment. [42412/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that bus escorts for children have not had a pay increase since 2020; if she will engage with this group of workers (details supplied) with the view of providing an increase in wages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43164/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the incoming Gambling Regulation Act 2004 or the regulator Údarás Rialála Cearrbhachais na hÉireann will monitor self-exclusion agreements of betting companies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of join family (spouse of Irish citizen and category B) visa applications received by her Department in 2021, 2022 and 2023, broken down by the number of applications still awaiting a response, and nationality of applicants. [42989/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of his Department’s investigation following the pig farm footage given by an anonymous tip-off on 5 March 2023. [42430/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions his Department will take following from the RTÉ Prime Time documentary on calves, given that abuse at marts was uncovered by another RTÉ exposé last year; and why the investigation is still pending, with no one prosecuted on animal welfare charges. [42433/24]