192. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport his views on attempts by US business lobbyists to secure a quota for private jet flights at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3394/24]
189. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will confirm what specific training the IDF members received during their time in the Irish Military College (details supplied); if there are IDF military personnel currently attending the Irish Military College; if he will continue to allow IDF members to train in Ireland, given that Israel is currently before the International Court of Justice following a case brought by South Africa accusing the country of committing genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3458/24]
97. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will advocate against the proposal for a floating LNG in the energy security review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3396/24]
96. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he supports Ireland becoming a lead state in promoting a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3395/24]
94. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he believes the resources allocated for retrofitting are sufficient given the lengthy waiting lists for the warmer homes scheme and the need to make rapid emissions reductions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3397/24]
219. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will secure investment for prostate cancer treatment available in Ireland through the HSE; if he will ensure that high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment is urgently made available through the HSE; if a person can avail of this treatment should it not be made available through the HSE using the treatment abroad scheme; and the HSE’s plans for improving prostate cancer treatment. [3325/24]
179. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the funding crisis within St. John of God Community Services; if he will instruct the HSE to deliver unequivocal confirmation of the funding required to both address the deficit and maintain the financial and operational sustainability of services prior to the scheduled 25 January meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3375/24]
488. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what steps are taken to ensure that the required storage facilities for chicken litter are in fact built after chicken farms are established. [2960/24]
487. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has read the preferred results response to a report by a person (details supplied) about the greyhound industry; and whether he considers its findings should result in a change in Government policy on public support for the greyhound industry.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2959/24]
467. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considers the position of a person (details supplied) to be any longer tenable, given that the organisation over which they preside allowed an individual to continue to own and race greyhounds at tracks around this country for up to ten months after the said individual had been banned from owning, keeping or breeding a dog following a conviction for cruelty under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2441/24]
371. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection to request her Department to offer a solution to the issue outlined (details supplied), ensuring that this person is given access to their weekly allowance entitlement. [2439/24]
324. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media whether she agrees that there should be a National Famine Commemoration Day on the island of Ireland, to include all of the people across Ireland, North and South. [2928/24]
323. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media whether she agrees that both the national and international/twinning National Famine Commemoration Days should be held on the same day, on the third Sunday in May. [2927/24]
322. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media whether she agrees that one-year's advance notice should be provided for the location of both the home and overseas National Famine Commemoration Day, as is the norm for days of importance in the national calendar. [2926/24]
2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [53912/23]
135. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he agrees that all homes which have received a G BER rating should be entitled to improvements under the warmer homes scheme; if he will instruct his Department to update the terms of the scheme to ensure this is the case given in the (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2158/24]
131. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement in relation to the attacks by armed gangs in Nigeria (details supplied). [2149/24]
1863. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an update on the development of a 'borrowing framework' for technological universities and a timeline for this framework, given that the absence of such a framework makes it impossible for TUs to borrow money on the financial market to build student accommodation. [1982/24]
1849. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide the total spend on external consultants by each of the technological universities for the past five years (details supplied). [57260/23]
1848. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide the total spend on legal fees by each of the technological universities for the past five years (details supplied). [57259/23]
1847. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if, in relation to the role of President of TU Dublin which was advertised on the basis of it being a seven-year appointment with the option for the governing body, based on a performance review, to extend the appointment for a further three years, he will confirm that the TU Dublin governing body will evaluate the performance of the President to determine whether their appointment will be extended for a further three years or not. [57258/23]
1846. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if, in relation to the HEA published student number data by mode of study full-time or part-time, the number of full-time students includes students registered on full-time programmes but who are repeating modules and not completing 60 credits in the year; if the same is true for part-time students; and if the figure for part-time students includes those repeating modules and doing less credits than is required to progress from one year to another. [57257/23]
1845. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if, in relation to media reports over the summer period reporting a drop in full-time equivalent students of in excess of 2,400 over the previous year at TU Dublin, and given that the FTE figure is calculated for funding purposes, he will confirm what the actual drop in this FTE figure was for TU Dublin; and what the decrease in funding will be as a result. [57256/23]
1844. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the President of TU Dublin sought approval from the governing body for the proposed organisation design and were the consultants’ costings showing an increase in salary costs of approximately €10 million shared with the governing body members in advance of a decision to approve or not approve. [57255/23]
1843. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if TU Dublin increased student fees for international students and part-time students without Governing Body approval; and if students were reimbursed. [57254/23]
1842. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if, in light of his admission that the Technological Universities Act 2018 was breached by the appointment of the Chief Operating Officer and of the Deputy President and Registrar in October 2019 at TU Dublin, he will outline what actions his Department took as a response to this breach of the Act. [57253/23]
1841. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason he sanctioned retrospectively the appointment of a Chief Operations Officer and of a Deputy President and Registrar at TU Dublin in October 2022, given that he must have been aware at the time of the €10 million increase in salary costs for non-academic roles in the university, the decline in market share leading to a decrease in funding and given as he confirmed previously the appointments breached the Technological Universities Act 2018. [57252/23]
1840. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to confirm what reserves TU Dublin holds; how much of these reserves are unencumbered (details supplied); and the actual reserves TU Dublin holds that can be used to offset the deficit. [57251/23]
1839. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will report on the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 proposed consolidation and mergers of institutes of technology to ‘improve resource efficiency, by taking advantage of economies of scale and opportunities for sharing services’ given the circumstances (details supplied); if his Department approved this significant increase in salary costs for non-academic staff; and the reason the economies of scale and efficiencies derived from sharing services envisaged in the national strategy were not achieved in TU Dublin. [57250/23]
1838. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if TU Dublin will run the commis chef apprenticeship programme on TU Dublin’s Tallaght campus in the coming academic year. [57249/23]
1837. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if, in relation to September 2021 when TU Dublin appointed ten new secretary/financial controller grade II positions, where eight of these were new posts and only two of these positions were across the three legacy institutions pre-merger, he will confirm whether TU Dublin sought approval from his Department for these appointments. [57248/23]
1836. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff working on a full- and part-time basis, the number of posts in recruitment and number of vacant positions in each of the technological universities (details supplied). [57247/23]
1835. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason for the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question No. 871 of 11 July 2023; and to confirm when it will be answered. [57246/23]
1834. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to explain the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question Nos. 148 and 149 of 27 September 2023; and to confirm when they will be answered. [57245/23]
1824. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide a full list of PhD scholarships and awards that will see increased stipends in 2024 (details supplied). [56667/23]
1823. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on stipend increases for Higher Education Authority funded PhD researchers across all categories of HEA-funded research that is, HEA PhD, HEA extensions, and so on. [56666/23]
1822. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if recipients of the Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Award will receive the same increase in their stipends as IRC Government of Ireland PG Award recipients. [56665/23]
1765. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health what practices are in place to ensure that autistic people are not being discriminated against when it comes to receiving healthcare through the National Gender Service; if the HSE has received any complaints in relation to this; if so, how those complaints have been dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1756/24]
1763. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will add motor neuron (covering various types) and Kennedy's disease to the list of conditions/ illnesses that qualify for the long-term illness medical card; if not the reason; the steps that can be taken to add these conditions to the card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1753/24]
1538. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 24 October 2023, to outline the rationale to exclude operations carried out on adults at Cappagh Hospital from the external review. [56692/23]
1537. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health what reduction from the current over ten-year waiting list for the National Gender Service he expects to result from a new clinic (details supplied). [56678/23]
1536. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health what consultation was performed with the trans community before approving the funding for a service (details supplied). [56677/23]
1535. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of a clinic (details supplied); and when the new location will begin operation. [56676/23]
1534. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the basis on which the National Gender Service has national in its name; and if this name was approved by the HSE or his Department. [56675/23]
1533. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that the National Gender Service has a model of care which did not go through any clinical design approval or governance structure in the HSE, and nor is its acceptance a process that happened within his Department (details supplied). [56674/23]
1532. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 6 December 2023, at what stage and in what form will the HSE consultation take place with a wide range of stakeholders in the development of the new model of care; including those who use the services and advocacy groups; and if trans groups will have any decision making power. [56673/23]
1531. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 6 December 2023, his views on whether there are no legal or medical obstacles preventing GPs from providing blood tests to their trans patients. [56672/23]
1530. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 6 December 2023, his views on whether in line with the WPATH SoC v8 statement (details supplied) that all GPs should be providing blood tests to trans people who are self-medicating. [56671/23]
1529. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 6 December 2023, if he will send a circular to GPs to clarify that GPs should provide blood tests and hormone therapy (details supplied). [56670/23]