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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (6 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned at high household energy costs; the steps he will take in areas under his remit to lower the cost of the energy for households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59247/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (6 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding granting a US Department of War chartered flight, carrying troops or military cargo, to refuel at Shannon Airport en route to the Nevatim IDF base in Israel, the way in which he reconciles this decision with the statement made by the then-Taoiseach in November 2023 that ‘there were no flights going from the US through...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (6 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific, proactive measures his Department is taking to inspect such aircraft for illegal munitions, given the numerous reports of such cargo transiting through Irish airspace. [60892/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child's medical reports recommend they attend a special class or a special school; if the child will be provided with a preliminary determination of eligibility to a special class placement; or if there is a policy/ direction in place that only one will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60861/25]

International Protection Processing and Enforcement: Statements (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was very strange yesterday on Leaders' Questions. I counted no fewer than seven times when Jack Chambers, stepping in for the Taoiseach, called for a debate on our migration policy. This is kind of the last refuge of the scoundrel. Rather than actually coming out and arguing for a position, they just say we need to have a debate about it, suggesting that somehow they are not able to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Smaller apartments.

Decriminalisation of People Who Use Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. Decriminalisation of all drugs has been the policy of People Before Profit for very many years. We were delighted to see that this was finally adopted as a consensus cross-party position in the interim report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drugs Use, which was then chaired by Gino Kenny. The report was published last October....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate the answer but the Minister of State knows as well as I do that it does not actually answer any of the points that I raised. I am hoping that in her two-minute supplementary response the Minister of State will address these issues. I appreciate that she gave the answer she was provided with but this is causing real concern for task forces across the country. I will repeat the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will they be included in the reference group?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate the fact the Minister of State is here so I hope we can get some information for the local drug and alcohol task forces. These are the people who are doing the work on the front line in communities affected by drug abuse. I hope to hear differently from the Minister of State but it seems as though this Government is continuing the policy we have seen over the past ten years or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for all their presentations, which are really useful. One thing that has featured quite heavily here is that people are rightly gobsmacked by the whole lack of location preference. The letter just arrives in the post and you are meant to travel around half the country. Obviously, it makes no sense, so I think it is likely that this committee will recommend that that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: And as it currently stands, they might find someone appropriate to swap with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: That then indicates that it is not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: But the fact that they allow swaps indicates that, in a way, it is just a more inefficient way of organising a CAO-type system whereby people put in their preferences and say they would prefer to go to a certain location and people at least try to accommodate that. It will not be possible to accommodate everybody, but at least that should be the starting point. I have a question, or maybe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: It quickly reaches €1,000 and that is not crazy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: They cannot do this without it. It is not some optional extra. For those on the first-year electrician rate of slightly over €7 an hour, it takes something like 200 hours of work to get the wages to pay for what they need to be able to start work in the first place. That is obviously big. The thing that struck me was the €70 a week for lodging support. Even the caravan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: And then they finally go above it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Of the union rate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: It would be a very simple thing to change in law, to get rid of that exemption for apprentices and stipulate that nobody should be working for less than the minimum wage. We have introduced a Bill to deal with the pay for the under-20s. We will introduce separate legislation to get rid of it for apprentices. Would that make a difference? The Government is spending something like...