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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I reiterate the comments of my colleague, Deputy Conway-Walsh, in terms of our broad support for the proposals. I have a couple of questions and will be brief to allow the witnesses time to respond. How was the figure of the 10,000 cut-off point in population size of any particular location reached? Was any consideration given to regional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Murphy: I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Murphy: I am not sure if the Department can answer this. We talked about the resource for planning. I will allow Ms McGuire to finish the point in relation to the platforms, but I also raise the resources in relation to planning. Was there any discussion in terms of flexibility to make sure that people had space to put in for planning? If a backlog arises and people cannot register, tourism...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Murphy: Was there any consideration of regional variation? There are some towns for which tourism is not such an important function and then there are other towns, particularly in the west and in rural areas, where tourism has a huge function. Was any consideration given to regional variation or was a number just picked and that was it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Conor Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. They have covered a lot about energy infrastructure, so I will not go back into that. I agree with Deputy Gogarty about the potential for renewables across the island and where that could bring us. The Government acknowledged a number of times yesterday in the budget speeches the macroeconomic vulnerability regarding corporation tax, the tax...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2025)

Conor Murphy: I will raise the kidnap and release yesterday of our fellow Seanadóir, my party colleague Chris Andrews. I am thankful he has been released. On 1 October, the boat Chris was travelling on, the Spectre, was illegally boarded by Israeli forces. Over the next two days, all boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla were intercepted. In total, 462 people, 16 of them Irish citizens, were...

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Finance): Statements (7 Oct 2025)

Conor Murphy: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I regret I do not have much of the same sentiment about the budget as I heard in the statements from him or in the Dáil earlier. This is the first budget of the new coalition and it is easy to see from it that the election is very much in the rear-view mirror of the Government. It has managed...

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Conor Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to comment on the statement made by the Minister. I notice that like myself, he is moving quickly from one place to another but I welcome the presence of his ministerial colleague. The important matter he raised was setting the framework of the budget and future budgets. There has to be a recognition in doing that, which was not alluded in his statement, of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Conor Murphy: I apologise because I will have to leave to go to the Seanad for business which I see is already under way. I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I welcome the new economic model paper that ICTU has launched, particularly its all-island focus, which I think increasingly we need to get to in terms of this overall discussion in relation to economic growth across the island and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Conor Murphy: I have one more question about the EU directive. I know we are short on time. What is holding it up? When do the witnesses expect it to happen?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Conor Murphy: I echo the remarks on Bridget Doody. We had an opportunity to thank Martin Groves for his service a number of months back. Bridget was very supportive, particularly of us new Senators, and very patient with her advice and guidance. Cuirim fáilte roimh Martin Hughes and I look forward very much to working with him in the time ahead. Last Friday both Governments published a framework...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Conor Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I agree with a lot of the points raised already. I do not have the time to go back into some of them. To make a quick point on the tourism sharing of that project on the north coast and the Wild Atlantic Way, a discussion is under way about tourism branding across the island that I hope will move forward at pace because it will make a significant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Conor Murphy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Conor Murphy: There is the cancer treatment service in Altnagelvin and the paediatric service in Dublin. Those have been on the go for between ten and 15 years and we have not seen development coming behind that. There is an urgency when people's health is involved. I get that it is sometimes hard to move systems together, but more urgency in this area would serve all people of the island well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Conor Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. The news in relation to debt has been good. Debt appears to have been very well-managed in recent years. I want to follow on from the questions put by Senator O'Reilly. It is evident that there is no moral compass element. The witnesses said that the investment remit for the taxpayers’ money of this State is within set parameters. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Conor Murphy: In that context, why did the NTMA choose to invest in Israeli war bonds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Conor Murphy: The NTMA could end up investing in something that it has not taken an active decision to invest in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Conor Murphy: The NTMA is a State body investing on behalf of the people of the State and the taxpayers of the State. It could end up investing in things that are morally reprehensible, illegal and counter to the foreign policy of the State itself. They would certainly be counter to the wishes of the Oireachtas and the wishes expressed broadly by the Irish people, and the NTMA has no ability to make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Conor Murphy: Yet the NTMA took a decision to disinvest. That was a proactive decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Conor Murphy: By that logic, if the threats regarding Iran receded, the NTMA could be back in the business of investing in Israeli war bonds again.