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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: What we need to debate is the changing allocation of SNAs. I have been inundated by SNAs, parents and teachers who say the model of allocation is being introduced without any process of consultation, and it will have a damaging impact on children with special needs, meaning they do not get the support they need. We need to debate it this week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for their work. They have really got to the nub of the issues as regards the relationship between ethics and the market, who is driving this, whose interests are being driven and what will happen if we do not interfere with that market-driven development. I will begin on that. If we think back to the early days of social media, this was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Loftus. I have a related question for anyone who wants it. A feature of our discussion last week with young people and young people's representatives was the issue of social media algorithms, which are all AI-driven, and how people are exposed to, without choosing, toxic, misinformation, misogynistic, pro-eating-disorder or pro-suicide content; horrific stuff. I would be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to ensure that there are no disimprovements to bus services as a result of the launch of Phase 7 of Bus Connects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51683/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional services will be provided on the 15b bus route during the morning peak, as buses are routinely full in the mornings since the schools went back; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 286. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reverse the decision not to implement default 30 kilometre an hour speed limits in urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51847/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what steps he will take to ensure that there is no loss of bus service for St. MacDaras Community College and Rossmore Estate as a result of the re-routing of the 150 bus route via Limekiln Road to Greenhills College and the launch of Phase 7 of BusConnects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51849/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will abolish public transport fares as a cost of living, air quality and climate action measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51850/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address, in the Budget, the unfairness of low paid workers paying more for TaxSaver public transport tickets than higher paid workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51848/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a case (details supplied); and if she will instruct her Department to reduce class sizes and ensure that the school has an appropriate number of teachers. [51961/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on his Department increasing the allowance for pensioners over the age of 80. [51926/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wild Fires (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he will take to prevent a recurrence of the weeks of gorse fires at Ticknock in August 2025 (details supplied), which caused serious air pollution and increased carbon emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51829/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 777. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of duty social workers provided by Tusla, divided by area, in tabular form. [51590/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Child and Family Agency (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 778. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the average length of service for duty social workers in Tusla. [51591/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 899. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the damage to public health caused by weeks of gorse fires at Ticknock (details supplied); if she will liaise with the appropriate authorities to take action to prevent a recurrence so as to protect families, children and older people from further heart, lung and neurological damage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51853/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 928. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE has received the risk assessment part of a review (details supplied; and if she will commit to publishing it in full and unredacted. [52024/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Irish Language (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I dealt with funding and housing to some degree in the introduction, so I might now deal with education and language rights, which are the other two features of the protest and the demands of the movement. The striking thing in education is the mismatch between parents' aspirations and wishes and the reality of school availability. Almost one in four parents say that if they had the option...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Irish Language (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: There was a huge protest on Saturday in Dublin, called Cearta. The streets were dearg le fearg with 25,000 people coming out to demand action on funding for the Irish language and the Gaeltacht as well as action on education, the housing crisis and language rights. The turnout speaks to, on the one hand, a moment for the Irish language of a renewal or resurgence from below, with more and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: On a point of order, the Government did not allow a motion to be passed to be further discussed. That is not what happens. The Minister knows that. That might happen with a Bill but the motion was passed. The position of the House, with the Minister’s agreement, is these awful reactionary policies that were proposed. The Simon Community is in the Dáil today to highlight...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the words of concern and support and the consular assistance being provided. Respectfully, I asked what are you going to do, not what are you going to say. This is a microcosm of the Government's position on Palestine in general whereby it is able to correctly say that what is happening is a genocide but the action does not necessarily follow. It is welcome that the matter is...