Results 361-380 of 10,442 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Does the Taoiseach think that is necessary in the context of the use of significant Garda resources to terrorise a working class community at the moment? Four people were arrested this morning.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Four people were arrested yesterday and four people were arrested on Monday.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: A 14 year old was arrested today by six gardaí.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Yesterday, a 16 year old was arrested by ten gardaí.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: A 12 year old was arrested also.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: This must be discussed. It is a very serious attack on the right to protest.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: It is a very serious attack on the right to protest.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on pay rises in the public sector in view of the call by SIPTU, the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union, for a 5% pay rise across the economy and a minimum wage of €11.45 (details supplied); and if he will report on contacts made with trade unions on the matter of pay. [5786/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (11 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to reversing cuts to the pensions and other rights of persons participating in community employment schemes contained in section 7 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6272/15]
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Many of them boycotted it because the Tánaiste was coming.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste made the complaint.
- Topical Issue Debate: Irish Prisoners Abroad (12 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (12 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on progress on negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; his views of reported opposition to the investment state dispute settlement mechanism from the French and German Governments (details supplied) and the results of the European Commission's public consultation on TTIP in which the...
- Other Questions: Beef Exports (17 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the possible future effects on the reputation of Irish beef, arising from the involvement of a company (details supplied), as the first major distributor of Irish beef in America. [6680/15]
- Other Questions: Beef Exports (17 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Do the Minister and his Department have concerns about possible future effects on the reputation of Irish beef arising from the involvement of Larry Goodman's company, ABP Food Group, as the first major distributor of Irish beef in America?
- Other Questions: Beef Exports (17 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: No, I share in the view that it is welcome that Irish beef exporters can export to the United States. However, the question is whether it is in no way problematic that at present, regardless of whether one likes it, the face of those exports is a man who was in charge of a company that previously was found by a tribunal to have been repackaging meat, meat by-products and offal from all over...
- Other Questions: Beef Exports (17 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: The Minister used the phrase the distant past but one does not have to go back to 1987 to find questionable practices happening in a plant owned by this company. Two years ago, it was implicated in the horsemeat scandal. It should be recognised that the man in question was previously at the centre of a nexus relationship between agribusiness and politicians. If one reads the beef tribunal...
- Other Questions: Beef Exports (17 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: I am not making any new allegations about anybody. These are known facts. It is also a known fact that this man is now the biggest beef exporter to the US but the Minister does not have a problem with this. He does not believe this could cause damage to other beef exporters who do not have murky questions over their previous business practices, not just in the distant past but more recently.
- Other Questions: Beef Exports (17 Feb 2015)
Paul Murphy: Why? I do not export beef or horsemeat for that matter.