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Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Just to motivate my amendment, the same wording comes from Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. It was 10% that a plebiscite could be triggered by-----

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: No problem. It was that a petition of more than 10% of people in a local authority would trigger a plebiscite on having a directly elected mayor. In fairness, the Minister of State is moving from 10% to 15%. That is a step in the right direction. I would still argue for 10%. It is a serious undertaking to get 10% of electors to sign a petition in a proper manner that can be checked. A...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: No. I will comment on amendment No. 73.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: I agree with the amendment. With regard to Deputy Leddin's point, you are kind of hoping that the people of Limerick will elect someone who will agree with the director general now and forever. The people of Limerick, and of other areas if this is expanded, have the right to elect whoever they want. They may elect someone who has a fundamental clash with a future hypothetical director...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputies Pringle, Connolly and Collins for this excellent and timely motion. It aims to end the current situation whereby public money is invested indirectly through ISIF in damaging fossil fuel investments and agribusiness in the global south. It highlights Ireland’s role as a conduit for billions of euro of investment in damaging fossil fuels. In particular, I highlight...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: How long do we have?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Right. Regarding the point made by Deputy McAuliffe about exiting the market, these markets were artificially created by the imposition of charges and then tendering out to private services. This is what happened. In terms of the answer from the Minister of State, it is kind of unclear. On the one hand, he kind of points towards the councils and suggests that they maybe could do this,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Over 20 years have passed since bin charges and the privatisation of refuse collection were introduced. All of our warnings about what that would mean have come to pass. We were defeated in the campaign against privatisation but everything we said has happened. The waivers went, the charges went up to a point where people are now faced with paying over €300 a year, we had full-scale...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: The science is absolutely clear. Coal, gas and oil must be left in the underground. Yet, at COP, it is clear that the interests of profit and of oil-producing countries are coming first, while the needs of humanity are being forgotten. The COP process is failing. That is why I asked the Taoiseach earlier about whether Ireland would support a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. He...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at COP28. [55117/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council. [55116/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Tories are trying to bribe Stormont back into existence with promises of funding that they claimed previously did not exist. Striking public sector workers and fighting communities know that they are the ones who forced this climbdown. Without their struggles, this would not be happening. The penny-pinching Tories are trying to ensure that even this money comes with strings of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services will next meet. [55115/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the inadequacy of local sports facilities in many of our communities. St. Kevin's Kilian's GAA club serves Kilnamanagh and Kingswood, where I live. It has close to 500 players and 1,000 members across 26 teams and an academy. It caters for boys and girls aged two up to adults but it does not have basic facilities such as toilets and changing rooms. The club produced a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: We had a tornado in Leitrim at the weekend. Extreme weather events will become a more and more common occurrence as we head towards climate catastrophe. Meanwhile in Dubai, negotiations are continuing around an entirely inadequate draft text for COP 28. The Taoiseach's speech at the opening of COP 28 was widely condemned by environmental activists as a copout. He chose to call only for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Disputes (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of a campaign to close the 15% pay gap between Tús supervisors and CE supervisors; if she is aware that some Tús supervisors are so badly paid that they qualify for the working family payment; if she will ensure that this pay gap is closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55057/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 28 November 2023, and the reference what were unequivocally 'test cases' as 'so-called test cases', given the fact that as previously supplied (details supplied) have all unequivocally admitted to the use of test cases in writing, and the fact that test cases were used by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Communications (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 699. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the email system for the Department was changed this year; if so, the reason for this change; whether the Department has access to the previous system; if not, what has happened to all of this personal information, and how many people are affected by this. [54958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Files (12 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 835. To ask the Minister for Health whether he agrees that all files, including personal notes, should be transferred from one HSE-funded facility to another in a specific case (details supplied). [55307/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (7 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will take into account the negative reaction of people with disabilities to the Green Paper on disability reform in devising further policy in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54228/23]