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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary)
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The OPW allocates €4.1 million of this to Revenue. The rest is allocated to the OPW and others. What is the rationale for this split?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary)
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: This relates to the cost. The Revenue Commissioners' portion is €4.1 million of a total cost of €36.977 million. That is divided among the Revenue Commissioners, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the HSE.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build homes to be completed by each local authority by the end of 2019. [51370/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Minister how many new-build homes are to be completed by each local authority by the end of 2019 because the Government has a mantra that 10,000 social housing units will be delivered this year, which is simply not true. I want him to put the figures on the record to demonstrate that it is not true and that he is engaging in spin worthy of Boris Johnson.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Minister plays with figures and the definition of social housing to create confusion. To be clear, as he said, the plan is to build 6,545 new social housing homes. The plan is not to build 10,000 homes, 20,000 homes or 27,000 homes but 6,545. The figures of 27,000, 20,000 and 10,000 are the equivalent of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's 60 new hospitals and 50,000 new nurses. Can the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Minister should stick to the facts.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: Let us stick to the facts. The Minister should stop talking about 10,000 social housing homes being delivered this year. That is not true. He should stop talking about 20,000 or 27,000 social housing homes being delivered. The Government's plan is to build 6,545 new social housing homes. He cannot seriously claim that more than 2,000 homes leased from private developers amount to social...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Government did not meet them.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Constitutional Amendments (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government promises improved intervention for children with special needs but the reality is that we have a national crisis, with hundreds of children on waiting lists for years not getting the early intervention that everybody acknowledges is needed. The State is failing families. There are particular black spots. Tallaght and many other areas of Dublin are among those....

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I wish to follow up on Deputy Howlin's point regarding the ownership and management ethos of the national maternity hospital. The Religious Sisters of Charity own the land on which the new facility is being built and the Government is negotiating with the order through its company, St. Vincent's Healthcare Group. That group will have a majority on the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is gas.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is turning into Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I will focus on the matter of climate change in the context of COP25, which is taking place in Madrid currently, as well as the plan launched by the European Commission today which will be discussed by the European Council over the coming days. COP25 and the European Council and European Commission discussions take place in the shadow of a quite incredible article that appeared in Naturea...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (11 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most recent figures on the housing waiting list for four Dublin councils (details supplied). [51371/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (12 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 302. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of individual homes in each of the four Dublin local authority areas that do not have access to fibre broadband. [52182/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for official visits abroad over the next six months. [53202/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach and his Government make a clear statement of condemnation about the systematic human rights abuses in Bahrain? More than 5,000 people are currently imprisoned on political charges, with many of them subjected to torture, including sexual abuse. I will give a few examples. Nabeel Rajab was incarcerated for posting so-called false tweets criticising Saudi Arabia's war in...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: I thank the staff who make this place work. I would not want to be in their position of having to deal with many of the Deputies and Senators in the Houses. I thank them for making this place tick and I wish everyone a happy Christmas.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2019)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government contains a commitment to tackle inequality. Obviously, one could be forgiven for thinking it should refer to creating, deepening and worsening inequality. I am not sure if the Taoiseach has been watching the programme "Ireland's Rich List" on RTE 2. At the moment according to The Sunday Times rich list, there are 17 billionaires in Ireland - not...