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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) states that many funded nursing vacancies arising from staff retiring, leaving or going on maternity leave are remaining unfilled due to the recruitment freeze and that this happening when there is unprecedented demand on our health services, meaning that various departments and community services are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: Also on the issue of housing, I am not sure if the Taoiseach saw it but there was a Central Bank report yesterday that projected that more than one quarter of Dublin office space could be vacant over the next two years. This is a potential game-changer as regards the housing crisis. The accommodation in question is a significant untapped resource. Total office space in Dublin was estimated...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: They were moved yesterday with nowhere to go.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the recently published national reform programme 2024. [24001/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent phone conversation with the Israeli President. [23885/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Taoiseach to condemn in the strongest possible terms the massacre and slaughter of civilians at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. Under the guise of rescuing hostages, of whom four were rescued but another three killed, almost 300 people were killed. It seems clear that war crimes were committed here, including the war crime of perfidy. Soldiers hiding in a supposedly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I, too, wish to raise the issue of Lough Neagh. People will remember the horrific scenes they saw last year with the toxic algae on the lake, mirrored to a slightly lesser degree in many other lakes right across this island, North and South. We know it is not a North-only issue. We know it is not an issue that respects any border. We know also from this morning's EPA report that water...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [23884/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: There has been so much scaremongering about the nature restoration law over the past couple of years that you would have thought it is a powerful law that will drive farmers off their land. The truth is it is anything but. We have another EU proposal that has been gutted again and again by right wing parties in Europe, egged on by the big agribusiness and big farmer lobby. To top it off,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request that a reason is provided explaining why a child was not accepted as a pupil at a school (details supplied); and the reason the newly built section is not being used to allow for a bigger capacity for pupils, given that there are waiting lists for entry. [25628/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister comment on the situation of post-primary schools? The same arguments apply in respect of secondary students, including the points about pupil well-being in school, engagement with food, prevention of hunger, alertness in education and so on. We have the capacity to address the inequalities that exist and are reflected in our schools. We should do so at post-primary as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expand the free school meals programme to all schools from September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25410/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: The free hot school meals programme is money extremely well spent in terms of education and tackling hunger in young people for families. Why do we not roll it out to all schools, primary and secondary, in September 2024?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: The question is in the context of the previous discussion we had about enforced deprivation among children. Other statistics are available. The Barnardos figures are striking. They are so striking that the former Taoiseach simply did not believe them at the time and he thought they were probably exaggerated. They stated that in November 2023 one in four parents did not have enough food to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase social welfare rates in budget 2025 in order that no one is living below the poverty line; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25409/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: There is already hype in the media about the upcoming budget. It is being said that it will be one of the last acts of the Government, whether the general election will be this year or next year. The Government will have a surplus of €65 billion in the coming years. Can the Minister commit now to increasing social welfare rates so that nobody will be left living below the poverty line?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: Unfortunately, the Minister and the Government have been found wanting. They have been found wanting for children in this country. The latest child poverty monitor report found that more than 250,000 children, or more than one in five children, in this State experienced enforced deprivation in 2023. The number of children experiencing enforced deprivation rose by almost 20% last year. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I do not know. Is the Minister saying it is okay?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Rates (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: Even according to the Minister's own figures, one in ten people in this country is at risk of poverty. I will give the Minister the child poverty monitor report figures again. More than one in five children experienced enforced deprivation in 2023, and that figure went up by over 30,000 children to 260,000 children last year. One in four households is in arrears on gas bills, while one in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Insurance (11 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support withdrawing the planned increases to employees' PRSI and increasing employers' PRSI towards European levels instead; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25407/24]