Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Trade Agreements

Paul Murphy

1881. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on calls for a suspension of TTIP negotiations between the EU and the USA at the upcoming meeting of trade ministers in view of the reported comments from the French trade Minister (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25468/16]

European Defence Capabilities

Paul Murphy

1956. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on reports in the French and German press (details supplied) on calls by the French and German defence Ministers for closer EU military co-operation post Brexit, including measures such as a joint headquarters, a single EU budget for military research and procurement and the establishment of an EU military academy; if he supports such calls; if not, the steps he will take to oppose such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26042/16]

Taoiseach's Communications

Paul Murphy

9. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on recent communication he has had, written or otherwise, with the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. [20702/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Paul Murphy

422. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 12 July 2016, the number of American troops and military hardware which have used Dublin Airport in each of the years from 2001 to 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23176/16]

Hydraulic Fracturing Policy

Paul Murphy

6. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will receive the report on the outcome of an all-island research programme on unconventional gas exploration and extraction, and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21622/16]

Renewable Energy Generation Targets

Paul Murphy

32. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to increase the production of renewable energies to reach the European Union target of 16% of energy being produced through renewable sources; his views that the 16% is sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21623/16]

Animal Welfare

Paul Murphy

63. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will support a national ban on the use of wild animals in circuses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21319/16]

Inland Fisheries Ireland

Paul Murphy

268. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider a review of the policy of gill-netting carried out by Inland Fisheries Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21320/16]

Abortion Services Provision

Paul Murphy

60. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the level of abortion services provided under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2015, as recently reported to the Houses of the Oireachtas, is sufficient to guarantee the highest standard of health care to women here. [20998/16]

Health Services Provision

Paul Murphy

109. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will review the outsourcing of health services to non-governmental organisations in view of an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20997/16]

Teaching Qualifications

Paul Murphy

277. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers registered under regulation 3 who are holders of AMI or level 7 St. Nicholas qualifications will remain unaffected by changes to these routes of registration, as per the Teaching Council advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21092/16]

Teachers' Panel Rights

Paul Murphy

278. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made for those teachers who are registered under regulation 3 to gain panel access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21093/16]

Teaching Qualifications

Paul Murphy

279. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he envisages that all of the teaching positions for special schools and special classes in mainstream schools will be filled given the intention to end the route of regulation 3 registration with the Teaching Council in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21094/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Paul Murphy

419. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of US troops and military hardware that have used Dublin Airport in each of the years from 2001 to 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20799/16]

Industrial Disputes

Paul Murphy

779. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has raised with the chief executive officer of a bank (details supplied) the failure of the bank to implement a Labour Court recommendation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21079/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

806. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether it is appropriate for the European Commission to progress and provisionally apply the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, CETA, prior to its ratification by member state parliaments in view of a comment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21191/16]

EU Agreements

Paul Murphy

159. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the European Union-Swiss bilateral negotiations; if he supports the Commission's suspension of research grants to Swiss universities and the suspension of the Erasmus student exchange programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20212/16]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

36. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will introduce changes to end the two tier system of pay and conditions in the Public Service that is particularly badly felt for new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19799/16]

Public Sector Pay

Paul Murphy

53. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider a repeal of financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation in view of the Government's claims regarding economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19800/16]

EU Issues

Paul Murphy

4. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on contact he has had with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, since the referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. [18069/16]

Military Aircraft

Paul Murphy

28. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any contact he has had with the US Government in regard to its military foreign policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19479/16]

Human Rights

Paul Murphy

29. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any contact he or his Department has had with the Brazilian Government since the impeachment of that country's president; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19478/16]

Official Engagements

Paul Murphy

35. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any recent contact he has had with the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19476/16]

Human Rights

Paul Murphy

49. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made contact with the Mexican Government concerning the reported state repression of a strike by school teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19480/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

665. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the European Commission will present a proposal to the Council of Ministers asking the Council to vote to give the Commission the authority to sign-off on the final text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the Canadian government (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19595/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

666. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Government gets access to the wording of the proposal to conclude the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; if she will make public the Commission’s proposal prior to the Council of Ministers' vote on the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19596/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

667. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will publish the position as to provisionally applying the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19597/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

668. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware that Article 29.5.2 of the Constitution places an imperative on the State to have any international agreement involving a charge upon public funds to be approved by Dáil Éireann and that as such, should the Council of Ministers vote by a qualified majority vote to approve the signing and provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and considering the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism of the agreement is designed specifically to allow for a charge upon public funds, this would be in breach of the Constitution, whereby Ireland could be the subject of settlement cases which lead to a charge upon public funds prior to Dáil Éireann approving the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19598/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

669. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she can assert that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the investor state dispute settlement will not be enforced upon Ireland prior to Dáil Éirean approving the agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19599/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

670. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the necessity test being used to inform the Government position on the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19600/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

671. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19601/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

672. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and why she does not invoke Article 218.11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and ask the European Court of Justice to deliver a legal ruling as to whether or not the settlement is compatible with European Union law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19602/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

673. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how intra-European Union bilateral investment treaty solutions with the investor-state dispute settlement promote discrimination based on nationality, but in a post-Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement legal landscape allowing Canadian businesses or European Union businesses with a Canadian owner to have privileged access to a legal remedy, namely the settlement, somehow does not allow for discrimination based on nationality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19603/16]

International Agreements

Paul Murphy

674. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she intends to protect Irish citizens from the EU Commission’s proposal to provisionally apply the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement prior to a definitive legal ruling as to the distribution of competences relating to new proposals to subject the European Union to an investor-state dispute settlement under the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19604/16]

Labour Activation Measures

Paul Murphy

11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has consulted with any organisations in regard to the creation of a new labour activation measure to replace JobBridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/16]

Labour Activation Measures

Paul Murphy

14. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if any new labour activation measure which he plans to introduce to replace JobBridge will pay participants at least the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18795/16]

Irish Water

Paul Murphy

17. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he discussed with Irish Water whether they plan to continue with the installation of water meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18468/16]

Water Charges Arrears

Paul Murphy

51. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he discussed with Irish Water whether arrears would be written off in the event of water charges being abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18469/16]

School Curriculum

Paul Murphy

11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the practice in schools where a child's parents or a young person over 18 years of age opts out of religious instruction; if he will issue guidelines to ensure this right is vindicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18269/16]

Equality Legislation

Paul Murphy

35. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has sought legal opinion on the constitutional position of section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18268/16]

Immigration Data

Paul Murphy

56. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of unaccompanied children relocated here; her deliberations with European Union colleagues on this matter; and her plans to allow those children access to claim asylum here. [18022/16]

Garda Investigations

Paul Murphy

25. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received reports or updates from the Garda Commissioner on investigations within An Garda Síochána concerning the leaking of information on ongoing Garda investigations to the media; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17132/16]

Crime Investigation

Paul Murphy

61. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has replied to a law firm (details supplied), regarding its concerns about the activities of a British detective in Ireland; if she will set up a public inquiry to investigate the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17131/16]

Northern Ireland

Paul Murphy

9. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on the meeting of the last British-Irish Council. [17155/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Paul Murphy

50. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he has discussed the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union following the referendum scheduled for 23 June 2016 with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron. [14458/16]

Visa Applications

Paul Murphy

106. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider to the exceptional humanitarian circumstances and take measures to ensure the safe passage of persons (details supplied) to Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17102/16]

IBRC Staff

Paul Murphy

112. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has agreed to pay four weeks' redundancy for each year worked to former employees of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will treat this as a valid unsecured creditor claim; the measures he will take to ensure the payment of redundancy to former staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16675/16]

Flood Relief Schemes

Paul Murphy

321. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the type of flood defence works as carried out by South Dublin County Council in Bohernabreena, Dublin 24, following flooding in 2011 (details supplied) in any new arrangements with the insurance industry to provide cover in areas where flood defence works have been carried out, given the difficulties of acquiring insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16851/16]

Seanad Reform

Paul Murphy

5. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach the status of the reform of Seanad Éireann. [15860/16]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Paul Murphy

11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he has met with religious leaders since the general election. [15861/16]