Results 21-40 of 123 for going forward speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...passed Second Stage, but the Government put a 12-month stay on its progress in order to have a consultation period. We are now 18 months down the line and the Government has proposed nothing, brought forward no alternative, nor signalled whether it will support the substantive aim behind the Bill. My question is to find out if it is going to.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...us. The protections will not change the essence of the thing which is that a particular employee can bring in someone for a few months. They are absolutely tied to that employer. They cannot go elsewhere and at the end they must leave. Inherently that is rife for exploitation, particularly when we consider the industries involved here, the low rates of pay and some quite horrific...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: We are here because of a request from the Deputy regarding the need for a referendum on water. We have been told that the Minister, Darragh O'Brien, looks forward to definitively addressing the referendum in the near future. That is great. We are having a debate about the future of water services now. We have had repeated commitments to hold a referendum, yet here we are having a debate...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is important that we are discussing this and I thank the Regional Group for bringing the motion forward. This is a huge issue. It is not discussed enough and it will become an even bigger issue. As the motion notes, there are likely to be well over 300,000 adults in the State who are suffering or have suffered from medical conditions associated with long Covid, based on an extrapolation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure the use of a live goat will be prohibited during the Puck Fair going forward, given public opinion was hugely in favour of prohibiting the use of a live goat in future.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47474/22]

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...the climate crisis and avoid the catastrophe that is otherwise coming towards us. Unfortunately, while there is much in the motion with which we would agree, a big part of its response is to go for a deeper entrenchment and reliance on fossil fuel infrastructure, tying us into more and more years of environmental damage and increasing carbon emissions. This is not the answer. Some of...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this very important motion. I attended an event last week organised by the Children's Rights Alliance to discuss the issue of child poverty, including the issue of the cost of education. It is striking that Ireland is the fifth richest country in the world on a GDP per capitabasis, but one in nine children in the State live in constant poverty....

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of months away. The State is failing many more children with special needs than that. In reality, as regards what should be done, the State is failing the thousands of children who have to go to school outside their local communities on a daily basis. Every day in Dublin, for example, taxis criss-cross each other throughout the city to bring children to their schools. It is an...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...do is pay tribute to the many campaigners throughout the country, some of whom are in the Gallery. When faced with a situation where they discover the house they bought whatever number of years ago is basically crumbling around them, people could be forgiven for collapsing into despair and thinking there is nothing they can do. We are still not where we need to be but we are at the point...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...on the supposed removal of the word "women" from maternity legislation. What actually happened was that they, the transphobes, put out a press release the day before announcing that they were going to disrupt the AGM in order to stop a trans woman from being democratically elected to the National Women's Council of Ireland board by its membership. That is what is in the press statement...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which I support. I pay tribute to the people in Navan and the region for mobilising and coming out in their thousands to defend and seek to ensure the future of their hospital. They are absolutely right to do so. I understand there is another protest planned for 9 July. It is only through those people-power mobilisations that the...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Ó Ríordáin and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The issue here is that a very gross discrimination was created by the Government's proposal, whereby an employee whose service was interrupted would go back to zero, lose his or her rights to sick pay and have to work up the 13 weeks again. This meant that the Bill, as drafted, excluded many of the most vulnerable...

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...to cover bills, move out on their own or contribute to their family. They should not be discriminated against on the basis of their age and they should not be paid a poverty wage. That is why I brought forward the National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill to end that discrimination once and for all. Finally, this is obviously one side of the cost-of-living crisis, with...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. The housing crisis is a failure of the market, the State, this Government and previous Governments. We see that failure everywhere when it comes to dealing with the housing crisis. Often when we have debates about the housing crisis, the Government likes to say that those of us in opposition and the left are approaching this from a...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: This flies in the face of the assurances the Minister of State is giving us that we are going up to ten, that there is no problem and that this all has to be here but the Opposition should not worry as this will happen barring extraordinary circumstances. Why not have a one-way ratcheting system? At present, it is the first order. We cannot go below three days but, apart from that, we...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Second Stage (7 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: I can confirm what Deputy Bruton said. Obviously, we welcome the introduction of a right to statutory sick leave in this country. It is a good thing that we are going to have it, even if it is extremely overdue and even if it is a lot less than what we need to have and what workers deserve in this country. Ireland has been an extreme outlier in not providing any statutory sick leave....

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "having reflected on the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, declines to accept the carbon budgets presented for 2021-2025 and for 2026-2030 as: — they are not aligned with the State's commitments entered into under the Paris Agreement; and —...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...effect, to get their children the care they need. This is a crisis for women in particular, on whom the burden of caring falls if they cannot find or afford childcare, which restricts their ability to go back to work in many cases. It is a crisis for children who are not getting the care they need and deserve. It is a crisis for the small providers who find themselves squeezed in a very...