Results 261-280 of 387 for speaker:Michael Murphy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: Do they tend to launch such documents in the surroundings of Leinster House? What is the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: There is an opportunity to launch the pre-budget submission in the audiovisual room of Leinster House at the invitation of a Member, for example. Yesterday, today and tomorrow will have seen so many pre-budget submissions launched in Buswells by so many organisations. I make no secret of the fact that I am a big fan of the IRHA and the work it does. The IRHA should have a think about this....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: We are close to a thousand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: We are at 1,300 approximately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: There you go. The numbers show the importance of the IRHA. I thank Mr. Hyland and his colleagues for assisting the committee on this important matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: I want to go through all of the steps. Step two is a Department of Social Protection requirement, which is the labour market test. It is my understanding that hauliers have to advertise the role on two sites for 28 days at a cost of €1,000. There was some suggestion that one site would be fine and that there is no need for two sites.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: The driver gets the permit and the haulier then has to apply to the Department of Justice for a visa.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: I can see it is dog eat dog. If someone else gives a driver an offer or he gets friendly with another driver, working for somebody else, who says over a cup of coffee that he is getting €100 more per week, before you know it that is the start of it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: I also welcome our wonderful visitors from Tipperary. The decision by the ETB to cut vital local training initiative programmes across Tipperary should be urgently reversed given the critical role played by these programmes in our communities. I refer in particular to those delivered at the Spafield Family Resource Centre in Cashel, the Knockanrawley Resource Centre in Tipperary Town, the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: 93. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether he intends to provide additional funding in 2025 for the local improvement scheme, LIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36845/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: As I am sure the Minister will agree, the local improvement scheme, LIS, and the community involvement scheme are two critical supports at local level that are vital to the fabric and function of rural Ireland. Are there plans to provide any additional funding before the end of this year?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: Across south Tipperary, the condition of local and minor roads has reached breaking point. We are not talking about potholes or surface cracks; we are talking about roads that are effectively impassible and where families struggle to reach schools, farmers cannot move machinery safely and emergency services think twice before making a journey. As the Minister knows, both schemes provide...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (10 Jul 2025)
Michael Murphy: While I welcome the increases in recent years, let us be honest. They are not nearly sufficient to address the scale and demand for the schemes. We need to double existing funding for the LIS and CIS schemes so that counties like Tipperary, in particular south Tipperary, gets its fair and equitable share.