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Apology for Persons Convicted of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts: Motion (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: We are marking the decriminalisation of homosexuality, which I see as a graphic confirmation of Frederick Douglass's famous aphorism that, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will ... If there is no struggle there is no progress." History demonstrates that decriminalisation was won following a struggle by the LGBTQ community that delivered change, just as...

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. To ban zero-hour contracts except in the case of casual work defeats the purpose as it is precisely the case that these people are abusing the notion of casual work. To give a concrete example from Lloyds, Mr. Pat. Watt, the marketing and sales director of Lloyds, has issued a couple of YouTube propaganda videos, and he said: "Throwing around terms like-----

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Okay. He said: "Throwing around terms like zero-hour contracts, which we do not and never have had, is deliberately divisive". However, if one speaks to the workers directly, as I did, it is a different story. Mandate has produced a copy of the contract on its website, which states: "Your normal hours of work are flexible as agreed with your manager, spread over up to 5 days between Monday...

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The company involved in these practices of gross exploitation of its workers is not some small pharmacy. It is part of the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world, McKesson Corporation, which has an annual revenue of €169 billion, more than double the revenue of the Irish State. Workers themselves organising is the way that proper terms and conditions can be won. That is why I...

Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: When does the Minister envisage a ban on zero-hour contracts will be introduced given their impact on people's lives, the inability to plan their lives, the impact on people's mental health, the inability to access mortgages and the fact that they are symptomatic of the rise in precarity? I ask the question particularly in the context of the Lloyds Pharmacy dispute. We have some Lloyds...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: In April the Dáil passed Solidarity-PBP's Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 on Second Stage. The Bill provides for the introduction of progressive, LGBTQ+ positive and factual sex education, with consent at its core. Crucially, it also provides that the religious ethos of a school will not stand in the way of the provision of such necessary objective sex education. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if legislation to prevent employers from unilaterally downgrading their employees' pension schemes from defined benefit to defined contribution is planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26608/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (19 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of the Government on the recent refusal of the Italian Government to accept refugees (details supplied); the contact he has had with Italian or European authorities regarding the incident; if he will condemn the treatment of the refugees, who included many unaccompanied minors, pregnant women and injured persons; and if he...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I thought that Deputy Brophy's remarks were revealing when he said that to be "fit for government" one has to prove oneself by voting for repressive legislation and voting against civil liberties. That is unfortunately appropriate in a state founded in a counter-revolution and in bloody repression of which the political forefathers of Deputy Brophy and party of the Minister, Deputy Flanagan,...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: He is the Minister's attack dog.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: We are now a year into the reign of the Taoiseach. The approach to the housing crisis demonstrated by his Government perfectly encapsulates its approach generally. There are two key elements and sides to the Government of Deputy Varadkar. On one side is a vicious, neoliberal, anti-working class policy that rhetorically demonises and economically attacks working class communities while, on...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: President Michael D. Higgins recently addressed the International Labour Organization in Geneva and remarked that it was the first international organisation that the Free State joined post-Independence, the implication being a deep-seated commitment to workers' rights that, unfortunately, was not reflected in the actions of the Free State at home, which repressed workers engaged in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I say to the Minister and, if he is listening, to the Minister for Health that this is an urgent matter and we would like an imminent announcement on it. It is having an impact on people's lives now. Couples are getting pregnant without realising that this is going to be a problem. It is something they realise only during the course of their pregnancies or, in the case of some people to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Has any analysis been done on the impact of this on the rights of children? As time passes, parents may separate or the tragic death of one may take place. What would be the impact of that on a child in this situation who has only one of his or her parents registered officially before this situation is resolved? I welcome the Minister's agreement that this is urgent. I understand that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has assessed the impact on the rights and welfare of those children of same-sex parents that are not able to accurately record their parents' details on birth certificates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25897/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Birth Certificates (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: I attended a meeting on Sunday of 55 LGBTQ parents and 20 of their children. They are affected by an issue which a majority of people in society are not aware of - and probably a majority in the LGBTQ community are not even aware of - whereby, despite three years having passed since the passing of the Children and Family Relationships Act and the advent of marriage equality, children of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (13 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions being taken to inform and redress those impacted by the false recording of adoptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25686/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: The presentations gave a rich picture of the problems that exist in RSE. There seems to unanimous agreement that they are there. Mr. Niall Behan raised a really important point about the gender aspect of the impact of inadequate sex education, which falls disproportionately on women. Would he or other witnesses expand on this gendered impact element? Other anecdotal evidence suggests...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: Nonsense.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Paul Murphy: That is shameful.