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Animal Protection (in relation to hares) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I meant half each which amounts to five minutes and five minutes. I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I am pretty shocked by the response of the Government and the speech we have just heard. It was not the kind of balanced speech normally heard in the Chamber from the Government when it is defending something about which it feels shamefaced. What Deputies have just heard is an advert in our...

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I congratulate the Government on what is an effective act of misdirection. This is a trick of magicians and worthy of Houdini. The Government points to the fiscal space and seeks to have a debate on the crumbs while ignoring the debate about who owns and how to distribute the big massive cake. It is remarkable. The term "fiscal space," which was not used 12 months ago, is now dominant in...

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (23 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: We will be fine without the Labour Party.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (22 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received reports or updates from the Garda Commissioner, on investigations within An Garda Síochána, concerning the leaking of information on ongoing Garda investigations to the media; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17132/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Investigation (22 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 61. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has replied to a law firm (details supplied), regarding its concerns about the activities of a British detective in Ireland; if she will set up a public inquiry to investigate the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17131/16]

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: The Government would like this to be a debate about pay-by-weight because that currently is the favoured method of the Government to green austerity measures and that is what it does. However, this is not a debate about pay-by-weight in the abstract; it is about how people over the past month or so have received letters explaining to them - without spelling it out fully - that they would...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I have not spoken yet.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I will speak for five minutes, during which time 125 people will be forcibly displaced from their homes, according to the UN report published yesterday, as a result of persecution, conflict, generalised violence and human rights violations. They will form part of the 65.3 million people who have been forcibly displaced worldwide, a 50% increase over the space of only five years. So many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that the establishment in this country is extremely nervous about the prospect of Brexit, as is the core part of the establishment in Britain. That is reflected in the desperation of the Government and its increasing intervention in the referendum. It is the Taoiseach's right to intervene in that debate and I would do likewise if I were in his position. Does the Taoiseach not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the meeting of the last British-Irish Council. [17155/16]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Do not avoid the Greyhound question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: What about Greyhound? Is Greyhound covered?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union following the referendum scheduled for 23 June 2016 with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron. [14458/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider to the exceptional humanitarian circumstances and take measures to ensure the safe passage of persons (details supplied) to Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17102/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has agreed to pay four weeks redundancy for each year worked to former employees of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will treat this as a valid unsecured creditor claim; the measures he will take to ensure the payment of redundancy to former staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16675/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the type of flood defence works as carried out by South Dublin County Council in Bohernabreena, Dublin 24 following flooding in 2011 (details supplied) in any new arrangements with the insurance industry to provide cover in areas where flood defence works have been carried out, given the difficulties of acquiring...

Parole Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: We would welcome the placing of the Parole Board on a statutory footing and making it independent of the Government. We welcome the Bill's intention to have clarity and transparency on the decisions to grant parole to those serving long sentences. A more transparent and structured parole system would assist in the rehabilitation of prisoners by giving an incentive for good conduct and...

Parole Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Our Bill for next week was ruled out of order.

Other Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (15 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister consider the manner in which the negotiations are being carried out is at all problematic? In particular, there is the fact we need a leak from Greenpeace to see what is in the text and the fact Members of the European Parliament have to go into a closed room with no note-taking facilities in order to see the texts that have been negotiated. That should ring alarm bells...

Other Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (15 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: I again ask whether the Minister is concerned that the precautionary principle is clearly under threat in negotiations and the European side does not seem to be defending it. I make the point that regulatory coherence is often presented as some very technical thing. Regulatory coherence is precisely about whether we have GM foods - they are regulations. When it comes to mutual recognition...