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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on permanently increasing both child benefit and qualified child payments in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37524/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline, in response to over 500 days of the conflict in Sudan, which has caused almost 10 million to be forced to flee their homes making it the world’s largest displacement crisis, the actions the Government has taken on this; and if his Department will consider actions (details supplied). [37279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a progress report on the establishment of an office of veteran affairs (details supplied); if he will commit to providing better resources for veterans of the Army; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for her views that gender transitions "have to be medically led", as mentioned in an article (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child and Family Agency (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Ireland does not have a child support agency that pursues and collects child maintenance for the children and primary parent (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37541/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 716 of 20 January 2021, in which the Minister stated "it can be interpreted that those involved in sporting activities, as opposed to domestic pets, are classed as farm animals", if he will ensure that this is corrected and that greyhounds are classified as domestic pets like other dogs; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 398. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress of the special schools pilot, which will provide delivery of in-school therapy supports to children in selected special schools; the timeframe for different stages of this pilot; and whether it is planned to roll it out to all special schools. [37904/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 437. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1749 of 9 September 2024, to outline the policy of the HSE in relation to an employee who has been potentially exposed to measles and whose job cannot be done from home; if they are required to take time off; and if so, if that time off is taken as sick days or annual leave (details supplied). [37410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 484. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2247 of 23 July 2024, the reason the transgender clinic in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda uses the 2014 guidelines provided by psychiatrists rather than the 2017 guidelines from endocrinologists for hormone serum concentrations. [37555/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 485. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2033 of 23 July 2024, if the transgender clinic in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda is aware that the guidelines do make statements in relation to the duration of GnRHa therapy (details supplied). [37556/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 486. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 418 of 2 July 2024, when the treatment abroad scheme changed to requiring evidence of multidisciplinary sign off for transgender surgery; and who made this decision. [37557/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 487. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2225 of 23 July 2024, what means activists have used to attack the National Gender Service. [37558/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 488. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2227 of 23 July 2024, if the National Gender Service tracks the number of patients it "often says not right now" to. [37559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 489. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2230 of 23 July 2024, which specific elements of transgender healthcare can be delivered by GPs. [37560/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 490. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2230 of 23 July 2024, if it has already been decided that initiation of transgender hormone treatments can only be done in liaison with specialist HSE services, and not by GPs alone. [37561/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 491. To ask the Minister for Health if there are no plans to restrict the access to puberty blockers, including via EU prescriptions. [37563/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 492. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of the subject matter expert colleagues who are assisting the clinical lead for transgender services in reviewing the Cass review. [37564/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (24 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: 493. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of groups the clinical lead for transgender services has met with to date. [37565/24]

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank everybody who has participated in the debate. I have sat through many debates like this in the Dáil and heard the Minister of State's responses in the past. I have heard about the pilot schemes, the task forces and the marginal improvements in a horrendous situation. It is still horrendous. If you go from waiting six years for an intervention that your child needs to waiting...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — over 10,000 children are waiting for an Assessment of Need (AON) and 110,000 are awaiting essential therapies; — over 120 children were without a school place at the beginning of September this year, while many more are forced to do a third year in the Early Childhood Care and Education Programme or are in Autism Spectrum...