Results 141-160 of 12,708 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Health if she has any concerns about Children's Health Ireland surgeons who may have performed unnecessary operations on children continuing to operate on them today; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52562/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if she will agree to a statutory inquiry into possible malpractice at Children's Health Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52559/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if she will hold a statutory inquiry into orthopaedic surgery at Children's Health Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52560/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 180. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Nayagam report, including when and whether it will be published; the reasons it is taking so long to complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52558/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 393. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 18 September 2025, if she will instruct her Department to provide supports to carers of children with additional needs in order to purchase necessary equipment to safely travel with their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52746/25]

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to speak about the so-called peace plan. It is not a peace plan. It is a plan for the continued colonisation of Palestine. That is what it is. I think it is shameful that the Irish Government is officially welcoming this plan, and even officially thanking Donald Trump for his efforts to end the conflict in Gaza. It is a plan for the continued colonial carve-up of Palestine - that...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Social Democrats for introducing this motion. I have lost count of the number of times we have debated this matter in the Dáil. I welcome that there is a commitment in the programme for Government to get rid of the means test, but I will not be surprised if we end up going into the next general election with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael promising to get rid of it. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (1 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of jobseekers’ payment claimants that have had reduced rates applied to them in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date; the amount by which jobseekers’ payments have been reduced in total as a result, for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (1 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reduced rates for jobseekers payments that have been applied to recipients with dependent children in 2023, 2024 and to date 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52343/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (1 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if the consultant identified in an internal HSE audit report as having been paid €1.6 million as a termination payment, including €1.37 million for loss of potential private earnings for a period of three years and eight months during which the doctor concerned was suspended, had worked for CHI. [52551/25]

Global Sumud Flotilla: Motion (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the relatives for being here and for the sacrifices they themselves are making, including extra familial responsibilities and the worry they are going through. I thank them for the sacrifice their relatives are making in putting themselves in danger. The flotilla they are participating in is at the vanguard of a global uprising of millions of people against genocide, Zionism and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is agreed, but it is not satisfactory that we only ever get through two groups of questions. We are even losing five minutes today. We used to get six Question Time sessions per week. The Government got rid of Wednesday's Question Time against our objections. We are down to just Tuesday for Taoiseach's Questions and now, more weeks than not, we get through two groupings rather than...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: He tweeted about it anyway, although it looked like he did not watch it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome to the Gallery the relatives of the participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The EU confirmed this week that nature in this country is in a very poor state and that economic growth has been achieved at the expense of the environment. Even in that context, the Blackwater fish kill stands out as an unprecedented ecocide - over 46,000 dead fish floating to the surface, bringing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [50159/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: May I come in on this group of questions, a Cheann Comhairle?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Taoiseach saying that sending a boat to the Mediterranean would breach the triple lock?

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment in accordance with Standing Order 187.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: What we need to debate is the changing allocation of SNAs. I have been inundated by SNAs, parents and teachers who say the model of allocation is being introduced without any process of consultation, and it will have a damaging impact on children with special needs, meaning they do not get the support they need. We need to debate it this week.