Results 1-20 of 47 for cork speaker:Paul Murphy

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...of an illicit drug for personal use accounted for 70% of all drug offences in 2022. This was summed up by Micheál Martin, the Tánaiste, when he was asked recently about an injection centre in Cork. He made some positive noises about being open to it, but he then raised what I think was meant to be some sort of profound question about the ethics of the State doing this and...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...choosing to say that this moment is one, like Micheál Martin shows, to say the far left is effectively as bad as the far right, giving out about some leaflet that People Before Profit produced in Cork. What did you say?

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...a dog to the UK, becoming one of [these] ... 6,500 greyhounds which GRI claims to be exported annually, the average dog would have to sell for [that amount] €7,683. What do greyhounds actually sell for? The Cork greyhound sales report published on 17 July 2021, around the same time as the publication of the Power report, stated the average sales price was €1,078. What is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Strategies (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline his Department's road map for assisting the recovery in communities such as Midleton, County Cork, regarding flood relief and climate adaptation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50293/23]

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...the public because he is not allowed to blast millions more tonnes of carbon into our already dangerously overheated atmosphere. He is suing us for not being allowed to cause more floods in County Cork, more devastating heatwaves across Europe and more hurricanes and climate refugees across the world. Every day we remain a member of this outrageously anti-environmental and pro-big oil...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...should not be increasing the number of connections to the gas network. Instead, it should be working to reduce them massively and then eliminate them entirely. Research from University College Cork has found that in order to meet our carbon budgets, gas demand in 2040 must be reduced by 93% compared to the current rates in the power sector, by 85% in the residential sector and by 67% in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projected overall increases in bus passenger capacity projected from BusConnects, nationally and in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30126/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of urban bus routes currently operated by publicly owned companies, nationally and in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick, respectively; whether this is projected to increase or decrease following the implementation of BusConnects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30127/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of currently rolled out BusConnects routes operated by private and publicly owned operators, nationally and in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (13 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 1254. To ask the Minister for Health if he will step in to ensure a person, details supplied, and the other residents of Beaumont residential care in Cork are not made homeless and are provided with the care that they need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28237/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (21 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 1215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns that were received regarding the Mercy Hospital Cork in 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023, broken down into categories. [12523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (21 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 1216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of concerns that were received about Cork University Hospital in 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023, broken down into categories. [12524/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dogs remain on a puppy farm (details supplied) in north Cork; and if so, if he will inform Cork County Council to immediately act by obtaining a court order to seize these dogs and to ensure they are immediately removed from the horrific conditions. [3999/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (24 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of a dog breeder (details supplied) in Cork who was shut down due to the horrific conditions the animals were subjected to; his Department’s plans to ensure this does not happen going forward; if he will commit to the closure of all puppy farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2997/23]

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...- I could go on and on. We have one of the lowest number of public hospital beds on a population basis and the fewest specialist doctors per capita, both about 40% less than the EU average. Dr. Brian Turner of Cork University Business School has stated that the health service is having to ration care, through long waiting lists and wait times, as a result of serious capacity and...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...more and more years of environmental damage and increasing carbon emissions. This is not the answer. Some of the solutions put forward in the motion include acquiring an LNG terminal in either Cork harbour or the Shannon Estuary, repowering the controversial Derrybrien wind farm, and reopening power plants in the midlands to burn biomass, with this biomass sourced from brash through...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will identify the person who initiated the visit of the HMS Enterprise war ship to Cork city; and when the invitation was sent to the British admiralty. [33991/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last Friday, hundreds of parents of children with disabilities protested outside the Dáil. There were also protests in Cork and Enniscorthy. These were organised by Families Unite for Services and Support, FUSS. The hashtag used was #LetsMakeAFuss. The speeches we heard were extremely powerful. We are talking about parents forced to make a fuss and to struggle to get, or to try to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: The deputy chair of An Bord Pleanála, Mr. Paul Hyde, is under investigation for failing to declare a conflict of interest in relation to a development in Blackpool, Cork which bordered a site owned by his father. This, however, appears to be only the tip of the iceberg for Mr. Hyde. I have been given documents from 2018 highlighting another proposed development, this time in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of the 2018 decision was owned by his father and subsequently transferred to his brother. Another development is proposed for the area currently. Blandcrest came under scrutiny in 2014 when Cork County Council broke procurement policy, spending €1.5 million on a railway underpass on land owned by this company. That underpass was completely unnecessary being just 200 m from...