Results 1-20 of 187 for speaker:Michael Murphy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Swimming Pools (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Murphy: I have to ask where the report is. There has been no engagement with local stakeholders. This is the reality of the situation. I fully accept Tusla's core competencies in respect of looking after children, but is there a greater gift to give to a child than the opportunity to learn how to swim? The wonderful thing about most activities in the water is that in many cases mobility issues as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education and Training Boards (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Murphy: We need to be very honest here. One of the reasons we find ourselves in this position is that while the most recent national wage agreement included a 3.5% increase, only 2% of the funding was provided by the Government. The other 1.5% must be absorbed from the existing budget. I ask the Minister of State to urgently rethink this decision and to engage with the ETB in Tipperary. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Swimming Pools (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Murphy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Mattie McGrath. I want to speak about a reply I received from Tusla to a parliamentary question I asked of the Minister regarding the future of the swimming pool on the Ferryhouse campus, just outside Clonmel. The reply stated that unfortunately, due to significant mechanical and electrical issues identified, Tusla deemed the pool at the end of its life...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education and Training Boards (1 Jul 2025)

Michael Murphy: I agree with Deputy McGrath. This decision by the ETB to cut vital local training initiative programmes across Tipperary should be urgently reversed. I acknowledge the critical role played by these programmes in our communities, particularly those delivered at the Spafield Family Resource Centre in Cashel, the Knockanrawley Resource Centre in Tipperary town, the Littleton community...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: Forty per cent of the post office network will potentially close unless Government funding is increased. Increasing this funding to €15 million annually over five years will ensure the viability of many of the 845 post offices nationwide, more than 500 of which are in areas without any financial institution. I acknowledge the extraordinary work of our postmasters and postmistresses...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (26 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to improve transparency and scrutiny in relation to the amount hospitals are charging health insurance companies in order to address rising premiums. [33416/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: I thank the Chair. I am sorry for being late. I was chairing the transport committee but I really wanted to be here to show solidarity with the network throughout south Tipperary. To be clear, there are 845 postmasters and postmistresses. Roughly, what is the average age? I assume they have a big challenge in terms of people retiring and nobody willing to take on the business. For me,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: Anyone, starting with the average age and the viability question.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: Apologies have been received from Deputy Currie. The purpose of today's meeting is to consider the Revised Estimates for Public Services in respect of Vote 31 - Transport. I remind members that the committee has no role in approving the Estimates. This is an ongoing opportunity for the committee to examine departmental expenditure in order to make the process more transparent and to engage...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: Thank you, Minister. Members will have 15 minutes each and Deputy Boland is our first contributor.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: Waiting patiently is Deputy Cathal Crowe.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: I thank the Deputy and the Minister. The beauty of being Chair is that I can either go first or last. For some strange reason, I decided to go last today and many of my questions have been asked. It is great to have the Minister and his senior advisory team here today. He has answered questions not just on the 2025 Estimates but on those for 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030, which have yet...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: Very much so.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: I am pleased to hear that. A number of major infrastructural projects under way this year are provided for in the Estimates. I am thinking in particular of the Adare bypass, the Cork commuter rail project, which I think is at phase 1, and the N5 development. The Minister mentioned the two BusConnects projects which start in quarters 3 and 4 of this year. There is also the M28 project, I...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: But not to the Minister’s current knowledge. Nothing has been brought to his attention.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: I thank the Minister. He will understand that I want to mention the N24 in my own constituency. What is his understanding of the state of play on that project? Where are we on the Cahir to Limerick section? I know we are currently at detailed design and planning phase. I welcome the provision in the Estimates for that particular stage of that project. I thank the Minister for the...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: While I was in the committee, a friend of mine was going through Athens airport. He has sent me a great picture: “Have a bank card? Then you have a public transport ticket”. I am looking forward to that sign being erected in Dublin Airport in 2028. I have some closing questions. First, I would like to ask about the Connecting Ireland rural transport programme. Will the...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: Will the Minister comment on the A5?

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Murphy: On that and the wider shared island fund, the extent to which we are investing in so many cross-Border projects, with €600 million having been committed to the A5, and having regard to the Irish Road Haulage Association coming in next week, has the issue of the HGV levy of up to £10.30 that applies to every HGV entering Northern Ireland, including on the A5, which is an unfair tax...