Parliamentary questions

Housing Policy

Paul Murphy

97. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commit to publishing rents as recommended by the Housing Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24336/24]

Homeless Persons Supports

Paul Murphy

99. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he will take to address the scale of babies and toddlers from being born into and brought up in homelessness as revealed by recent Census data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24337/24]

Cabinet Committees

Paul Murphy

5. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [22695/24]

Cabinet Committees

Paul Murphy

20. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with defence will next meet. [23883/24]

School Staff

Paul Murphy

80. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if cleaning staff employed directly by schools should be paid for 7 June 2024, even if their school is being used as a polling station on that day. [24172/24]

School Enrolments

Paul Murphy

14. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the action she will take to ensure that there are sufficient school places for every child who needs one in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23915/24]

School Enrolments

Paul Murphy

19. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the action she will take to ensure that there are sufficient secondary school places for every child who needs one in September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23912/24]

School Staff

Paul Murphy

31. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education what action she will take to fill vacant teaching posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23913/24]

Special Educational Needs

Paul Murphy

51. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education the action she will take to make sufficient resources available in schools for children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23916/24]

Education Costs

Paul Murphy

65. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education what action she will take to make primary and secondary education genuinely free in light of the continuing cost-of-living crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23914/24]

Bus Services

Paul Murphy

162. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware of the delays experienced by 15B bus route users on 17 May (details supplied); if he will provide an explanation as to the reason there was not one 15b in two hours but five 15 As; and what is Dublin Bus's strategy to deal with accidents when they occur. [24094/24]

Work Permits

Paul Murphy

188. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the abrupt implementation of substantial salary hikes for employment permits (details supplied) without adequate transitional measures for existing permit holders has plunged them into upheaval and despair, given that employers may not accommodate these increases, numerous families face the devastating prospect of job losses and being forced to uproot their lives in Ireland; if he will reconsider this change in thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23768/24]

Wildlife Conservation

Paul Murphy

299. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there has been any purchases of tenant in situ properties where there were issues of pyrite since the scheme commenced. [24105/24]

Wildlife Conservation

Paul Murphy

300. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has been contacted by Fingal County Council to request delegate sanction to purchase properties for applications that have been refused under the tenant in situ scheme (details supplied). [24106/24]

Wildlife Conservation

Paul Murphy

301. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has used delegate sanction to allow the council to purchase properties that had some repairs. [24107/24]

Wildlife Conservation

Paul Murphy

302. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant in situ applications that were purchased, refused and withdrawn since the commencement of this scheme; and if, in the interest of transparency, he will compile this, as the local authorities are not providing this detailed information. [24108/24]

Immigration Policy

Paul Murphy

335. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she is aware of the negative impact that not being able to work or engage in any business, trade or profession is having on stamp 3 holders; if she will request her Department to review a document (details supplied); her views on whether it would help to provide to people on general employment permits the same rights as those on critical skills permits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23752/24]

Prison Service

Paul Murphy

344. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of different cell or room types of accommodation for prisoners, by metric size, not including the sanitary annex, for all prisons and open centres in the prison estate, by individual prison (details supplied). [24074/24]

Prison Service

Paul Murphy

345. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will amend the misleading figures supplied to the CPT in 2019 regarding capacity and inform the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the amendment. [24075/24]

Prison Service

Paul Murphy

346. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the capacity for the total prison estate, having exact regard to the minimum recommendations of the European Prison Rules, not the IPS's calculation based on 'the bed capacity refers to the maximum number of beds which can be present/operational in a prison at any one time'. [24076/24]