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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the consideration of mental health impacts on children and families in the tenant-in-situ scheme, including assessing the potential impacts of homelessness and emergency accommodation on mental health; the effects of uprooting children from their lives, schools and friends to enter precarious living conditions, when they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the contradictory stances between local authorities such as SDCC and the guidance from his Department and the Ombudsman (details supplied), if he will clarify the intended use and eligibility criteria of the housing adaptation grant for people with disabilities, especially regarding structural modifications like...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that local authorities are aligned with the national and his Department's guidelines and interpretations of the housing adaptation grant to prevent discrepancies and confusion among applicants without referring this matter back as a decision for local authorities. [11279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which properties are assessed and categorised by local authorities like SDCC for families with specific medical and accessibility needs; and the oversight that is in place to ensure these categorisations are accurately applied and communicated. [11280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in cases where discrepancies arise between initial assessments and subsequent communications from local authority personnel (details supplied), the mechanisms that are in place for families to seek review or appeal these decisions to ensure their homes are made suitable for their needs without undue delay or confusion. [11281/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the responsibilities and accountability within local authorities for ensuring that properties allocated as medical relets meet the requisite standards and adaptations as promised to families with disabled members. [11282/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will expand the redress scheme to include all those who spent time in a mother and baby institution or county home; if he will consider making an enhanced medical card available to all survivors, extend the scheme to anyone abused in a 'boarding out'/adoptive placement or abused through forced labour,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 352. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the funding crisis facing the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme (UMAAP) currently delivered via ADHD Ireland and the recent decision by the HSE to withdraw funding for UMAAP in 2024; and if he will instruct the HSE to reverse this decision and ensure the continuation of this vital programme. [11268/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can provide a solution to an issue as regards guardianship (details supplied); if he will consider updating the legislation for someone who is the sole guardian in getting a child's passport; and if not, why not. [10054/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Industry (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in relation to proposed lithium drilling in Moylisha Hill, if he is aware of the strength of local feeling against this development and the opposition expressed by environmentalists; if he will oppose this proposed programme of invasive drilling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10019/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on legal analysis to be provided to the Minister on Ireland’s withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty following Departmental engagement with the Office of the Attorney General in 2023; the scope and status of this OAG analysis and timeframe on when it will be brought to Government [10673/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 20 February 2024, given that no one bar essential workers could sit a driving test or avail of lessons in 2020 and 2021, if he will take this into consideration and advocate for the RSA to make temporary changes to third learner permits to last for two years rather than one (details...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that animal traps (details supplied) which were being used at the Botanic Gardens, Dublin, are unlawful under the Wildlife Act, 1976 (Approved Traps, Snares and Nets) Regulations 2003 and, if so, what steps have been taken to ensure they have been permanently removed from this site and any other OPW properties....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 29 March 2023, if the OPW established if a trespass occurred at Hore Abbey during a fox hunt and if so, what action has been taken against the hunt in question. [10044/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to circular 0002/24 issued by the Department on 6 February 2024, which proposes to eliminate the category of “complex educational needs” from consideration when allocating special education teacher (SET) hours, if she will ensure that this proposed change is withdrawn given the negative impact potentially revoking...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the adequacy of supports for children with autism and other additional educational needs in north Dublin, and the Ballymun-Finglas area in particular, and if she will comment specifically on the situation in which a person and his family (details supplied) find themselves. [10677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a licence is required for the hunting of Irish hares with packs of hounds and if so, how many licences have been issued over the past five years; and the recipients of the licences and how many hares have been killed in hunting during that period. [10036/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an animal trap for rats and mice (details supplied) is unlawful under the Wildlife Act, 1976 (Approved Traps, Snares and Nets) Regulations 2003 and if so, what action his Department is taking against those selling or using them in Ireland. [10038/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can explain why a veterinary report form documenting the presence of two pregnant hares at Freshford Coursing Club has been modified on the National Parks and Wildlife Service website to now show that "nil" hares were identified as pregnant at the meeting; who authorised this modification; if he condones it; and if an...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate if a pregnant hare who gave birth was among the hares in a coursing compound in Glin, given the number of hares at the end of coursing was one more than the number captured from the wild, if this breached the licence conditions and if so, what action he is taking against the club in question. [10040/24]