Results 1-20 of 385 for long speaker:Paul Murphy

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: For the benefit of other people who may be on the list of speakers I will take approximately ten minutes. I welcome the introduction of pay-related jobseeker's benefit in the Bill. It is long overdue that workers are not plunged way below the poverty line as soon as they lose their jobs. However, I do have a real problem with how the Government is proposing to pay for it. This Bill...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...say that we need to have a mature debate and so on, remained steadfastly in favour of neutrality. The Government could not shift it. The Government did not change its attitude, though, which is a long-standing attitude in Fine Gael in particular. This is an attitude that the Tánaiste previously described as the long-standing ideological "obsession" of Fine Gael to get rid of the...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes, because as long as we did not formally participate in NATO, the Tánaiste is saying that is still military neutrality. He is redefining neutrality in order to say that as long as we are not formally in NATO, we can join in all the missions and send our troops abroad, which is what getting rid of the triple lock is actually about. That is his actual agenda-----

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...which has a majority in the Dáil would have been able to send troops to participate in the invasion of Iraq. According to the Tánaiste's own definition, we would still be neutral in doing so as long as we did not formally join NATO. That is absolutely what this is about. I want to tear up some of the other dishonest presentations by the Tánaiste. He said that if we...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (28 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...and Equality the steps she has taken to quell a riot or serious violence in Mountjoy Prison or other prisons as a result of overcrowding, such as occurred under her watch in Dublin in 2023; and how long it would take to implement such steps from the start of the outbreak. [24078/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (23 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...of staff or the same number of counters. In what world does that amount to a guarantee that the same services are going to be provided to the community? What is happening is that there is a long-term agenda to significantly reduce the number of An Post branches throughout the country. As long as they are directly run by it, which 10% are, An Post cannot politically do that because it is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: .... Let us say the review starts in three months and concludes six months after that. If it were to recommend another model 3 hospital in the region with an emergency department, etc., roughly how long would it take to get from that point to the delivery of an emergency department?

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...has been enormous. In the past, children in Tallaght were able to access pubic dental services in St. Dominic's but are now forced to travel across the city to Crumlin for every dental appointment. There are long delays in the system, with kids waiting years to be assessed for orthodontic treatment and then spending further years on orthodontic waiting lists. Parents in Tallaght are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (23 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...-year waiting list, which would be bad enough, but it has more than 1,600 people on the waiting list and has never handled more than 160 people in a year. It is, therefore, clear it has a decades-long waiting list. If somebody can manage to get through that ten-year-long list, and does not have access to private resources to go abroad for healthcare, that person is faced with incredibly...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...that means the Government is not going to oppose our motion and will allow it to pass. Before there is uproar and celebration in the Visitors Gallery, I would warn that this Government has a long and not very proud history of allowing motions to pass and then not doing anything about the things that are passed in the motion. I would say that if this passes this evening, while that is...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...for it. This ignores the reality that it is pouring now for people in terms of the ongoing crises relating to housing, health, education, climate action and biodiversity. That €100 billion could go a long way towards resolving those crises. We could set up a State construction company. We could directly build hundreds of thousands of social and genuinely affordable homes....

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...s colleagues in the European People's Party - hand in glove with the climate and biodiversity-denying far right - to try to block even this watered-down version of the nature restoration law. It went along with the lobbyists who invented all kinds of dire consequences for food production and security, all of which were complete nonsense. The truth, as a coalition of 3,000 actual...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...on their own websites. There is a provision to set up a fossil fuel information commission to enable consumers to compare prices and features of fossil fuels and fossil-fuelled vehicles for so long as they are legally available for sale. I hope that will not be for too long as we need to get to zero emissions many years before 2050. Unfortunately, the Government's climate action plans...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: 710. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the special pay with leave long-Covid scheme for healthcare workers which is not to be extended beyond 31 March 2024 (details supplied) why have the Minister and the HSE reached this decision; if he is aware that these healthcare workers are still in the same situation and therefore still in need of the same support; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...in the world but more than four in ten parents have skipped meals so their children can have enough to eat. This is a country full of vacant and derelict properties - almost 60,000 properties are long-term vacant - but where more than 4,000 children are in emergency accommodation. These are properties that should be compulsorily purchased by councils, as has finally now happened in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Health whether the due diligence on therapists offered positions in the HSE is being outsourced to a private company; how long the average wait is from the time of application to completion of due diligence; how much the private company is being paid; whether there was a tender process for this company; and the reason the HSE is not itself verifying the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the communication he has had with Fingal County Council with regard to the long processing delays with the tenant-in-situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8984/24]

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ..., I thank the families, the advocates and the children in the Gallery for taking time out to fight for healthcare services. People should get the healthcare that they need. They should not be on long waiting lists. They should not be waiting over a year to get healthcare. It is a national scandal that we are here tonight. We have been here before. Children with scoliosis are being...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...of a Bill and have pre-legislative scrutiny and debate, as opposed to bringing this measure into legislation that has nothing to do with it. We supported this Bill on Second Stage because of the long-overdue reforms it makes to the treatment of maintenance by the social welfare system. Instead, we have two new sections that are far-reaching and shameful for the Government, in particular...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: .... I also thank those who have gone before him, including Ming Flanagan who is in the Gallery. I also thank all the campaigners, many of whom are here. They have been pushing on this issue for a long time, trying to get us in the direction of social progress. I have been here almost ten years, incredibly, and I have learned a thing or two about how the establishment politicians react...