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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: A minute ago, the Taoiseach said he had not read it yet.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: That person can but has to compensate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: On the North Circular Road there is a building with 16 families living in apartments. Many young children are living there, looking forward to Santa coming, but before Christmas all those families have been issued with notices to quit. The landlord is not a small accidental landlord but a businessman with multiple properties. Yesterday, he told the tenants they were great tenants but said...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: I asked for an indication from the Taoiseach about a Bill we will debate later. Perhaps we could get that first and when the Government publishes its Bill, we will respond to it. Our Bill proposes to ban evictions on the grounds of sale which would mean, as is the case in many European countries, that sale would have to take place with tenants in situ. It would ban evictions on the grounds...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Catalan Pro-Independence Prisoners (12 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received representations from the Irish ambassador in Madrid regarding the recent decision by a number of Catalan pro-independence prisoners on pre-trial detention to go on hunger strike in protest against their trial being frustrated and their access to the ECHR being blocked by Spain; if he will raise or facilitate the matter...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018: Committee Stage. (11 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: My question is linked to the general question of the Bill. When one looks at it from the point of view of the individual, we are not forcing people to retire if they want to continue to work, and so on. However, it does take place in a social context, and that is the social context of attacks on pensions and cuts in pensions over years. What starts out as something voluntary, and in this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018: Committee Stage. (11 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: We will have to come up with an age on Report Stage. Is that it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018: Committee Stage. (11 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: Okay.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (11 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: 593. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether a permanent standalone exhibition to the Great Famine, An Gorta Mór, should be established at the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52043/18]

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: When David Attenborough spoke at the climate summit in Poland earlier this week, he summed up very well the situation the world was facing. He said:Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change. If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world are on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Ceann Comhairle should cut them off.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government refers to the need to keep families in their homes. So bad is the crisis that not only are families not being kept in their homes but, incredibly, families who are in transitional housing from homelessness - own-door accommodation - are facing eviction from that transitional housing back into homelessness. A large number of families in Tallaght Cross, who are in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: I apologise for being late. The Minister of State has made the point that he has taken on board the spirit of the Seanad Report Stage amendments. How then does he explain why Senator Higgins disagrees that their spirit has been taken on board? Surely, the proposers of an amendment are in a better position to understand its spirit than the Government.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: I support the amendments. The argument made by the Minister of State regarding penalty points is spurious. It is clearly not the intention of Deputy Wallace that provision can be made for that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: In that case, let us draft it appropriately to ensure it does not apply in instances where the sharing of information is necessary. Clearly someone should not have the ability to refuse consent in such circumstances but in other cases, we should provide for an effective opt-out. We must make that real and ensure that people are giving informed consent and that they know what will happen to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: I believe a rhetorical question is one that does not seek an answer.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: The point is that people would not be allowed to opt out.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: I will add a point on law enforcement information being shared. As far as I know, that matter is covered in the Data Protection Act 2018 which transposed the law enforcement directive. That Act deals with the area and explains the circumstances in which law enforcement information can be shared with other necessary bodies. Nothing that is being proposed would undo it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: As long as an issue is mentioned on Committee Stage, it can be raised on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: Why are the Committees on Members' Interests for the Dáil and Seanad excluded? The Minister of State said that it is normal practice but why is that the case?