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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 55. To ask the Minister for Health if funding provided in budget 2025 will be used to reverse the decision in the HSE pay and numbers strategy to not fill all posts that were unfilled at the end of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39379/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2025 (3 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 54. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the level of funding provided in budget 2025 for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39380/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Prize Bonds (3 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 9 September 2024, if the reports of a company (details supplied) are published or available. [39501/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I do not know if any of the Ministers or Ministers of State here have had a chance to read Ciara Reilly's article in the Irish Examiner. It is very powerful and concerns the way this budget, in reality, fails families with children who have additional needs. She really puts her finger on it. This applies to all the tens of thousands of children with additional needs, but even more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Just condemn it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Just condemn the US.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Go on, say it. Just condemn it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Say it, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Say it and be consistent. Condemn the US.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has not condemned Israel-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: He has not.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he agrees with the Taoiseach that immigration is causing the homelessness crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39151/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 45. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he supports the goal of a publicly owned and operated childcare system; the steps taken in Budget 2025 towards achieving that; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39152/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if all possible assistance will be provided by the Irish embassy to the family of a person (details supplied) seriously injured in an accident, including facilitating accommodation in order that the family can be close to the hospital. [39427/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number prosecutions that have been carried out under section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015 in the past five years. [39408/24]

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: A farm is written down by 90%. With agricultural relief you can get up to €3.35 million.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: We had a budget that trumpeted the fact it is giving a so-called baby boost to new parents of children of €420. That is it. It will not go very far. Now, before midnight - in effect, from tomorrow morning - we have got a measure which will give a very substantial baby boost to the wealthiest 3% of households worth €21,450. It is one of the great tricks of Fine Gael and...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister, Deputy Chambers, spoke earlier about the Apple tax money having "the capacity to be transformational". He did not mention, nor did the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, that, as Deputy Boyd Barrett has pointed out, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael fought tooth and nail not to take this transformative amount of money, to say that €14 billion should stay on the cash pile of one of...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: It is backing business at the expense of workers. That is exactly what it is doing. The reason this Government - or the next Government if it is returned - is not going to introduce a transformative budget is that it will not break from its reliance on the market. In other words, it will not break from the prioritisation of profit for Apple, corporate landlords, private developers,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The treatment of education is summed up by the fact that, as the INTO has pointed out, more money has been allocated to the gimmick of smartphone pouches, to grab a cheap headline, than to increases in capitation for primary schools. That is absolutely scandalous and demonstrates a lack of priority for young people. The Government refused to introduce a second tier of child benefit for...