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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government promises to improve the lives of people with disabilities and for the most important people in their lives, their carers. Next Wednesday, from 12.30 p.m. as part of the Enough is Enough campaign, carers will be outside the Convention Centre calling for just that. Concretely, they will be calling for the reopening of adult day services. All around the country...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I note that the Taoiseach is following his predecessor in leaving the Chamber before Solidarity-People Before Profit speaks on this issue.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Perfect, I thank the Minister of State. We await the next European Council statements because this happened on every occasion with the previous Taoiseach. There exist two dominant narratives about the outcome of this European Council. The first is that of the establishment of the European Union, and echoed very much by the Taoiseach here today, where this is a victory for European...

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State's response to our motion and the Government's amendment to it are an insult. The amendment is an insult to the workers who have been taking action for 104 days. What the Minister of State has offered is more tea, sympathy, crocodile tears and generalities about what the Government is going to do for workers in the future and what it is going to do in terms of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will use public land for public housing and halt the privatisation of public land banks and public housing. [17643/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: "Public homes on public land" is the demand of the housing movement, a movement which has seen what the disaster of allowing developers to make a killing from public land means. I offer the example of the O'Devaney Gardens. This promise made its way into the Green Party manifesto and, interestingly, the Minister of State has uttered this slogan twice so far during our half hour of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I think the Minister engaged in a bit of a sleight of hand in his response - the same sleight of hand in which the programme for Government engages - when he said he will ensure that "public housing rental stock on public land is under the control of local authorities, approved housing bodies or other similar bodies". The point about the slogan "public homes on public land" is not primarily...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The slogan "public homes on public land" should mean using all public land for public homes. In the case of Killinarden, even setting aside for a moment the unaffordability of the so-called affordable homes, 400 of those 500 homes will be sold by the developer for whatever price the developer wants for private profit. Does the Minister agree with that and, if not, will he halt the sale of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the rent freeze and evictions ban will be extended to 31 January 2021. [17644/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I have two questions. If it is possible to follow up on the nursing homes issue that Deputy Gino Kenny raised, I will start with one and get an answer. The Minister underplays the HIQA report. The rate of non-compliance with infection prevention and control regulations was 50% across all nursing homes inspected. The regulation on suitability of premises had a non-compliance rate of...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: My next question is about schools and their reopening. We are sitting in a massive venue, which the public pays for, so that we can work in a safe environment. Will the Minister give a commitment that he will not force teachers and students back and endanger communities by having schools return and operate in conditions that are less safe than those in which Deputies work?

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief and will focus my remarks on what is the scandalous inclusion of the extra €16,000 a year for a super junior Minister, on top of an annual salary of €124,000. Before I discuss that point, I wish to make one point about higher education. There is a crisis of funding in higher education right now which is a consequence of a model of relying on non-EU students...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: The point I was making was that a return to fees or an increase in the so-called student contribution charge could be on the agenda in the course of this Government and the student movement needs to be awake to that and needs to be prepared to mobilise to defeat it, as has happened in the past. We have a situation where the student movement has been on the front foot and has demanded...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: What we needed was a real extension of the evictions ban and rent controls to bring rents down, but that is not what we got. This Bill is a triumph of spin over substance, with the Government getting headlines about extending the evictions ban while in reality the Bill slashes the rights of tenants and opens the floodgates of evictions by removing important protections for renters. In...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed. The PUP recipients losing their income on the basis of travelling is extremely serious. Not only does it appear to have no sound legal basis, it is also blatantly discriminatory. When Mr. Billy Kelleher MEP of Fianna Fáil openly broke the travel guidelines there was no impact on his income. We know that the rules were changed to facilitate tax exiles, maintaining...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Certainly. The point is that we have a motion on the Order Paper which would annul the statutory instrument and end this blatant discrimination. We believe the Dáil must debate and vote on it today.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: I ask the Taoiseach to address the question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: There is a law before the House.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the reports were that members of the Government were taking a 10% pay cut, but it later emerged that it is not a pay cut at all and, in fact, the Taoiseach will be more highly paid than his predecessor, Ministers will be more highly paid than their predecessors and junior Ministers will be more highly paid than their predecessors. If the Government was a shop which advertised a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (28 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: 812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will arrange for the transfer of residents of a direct provision centre (details supplied) to different, safe and supportive accommodation in view of letters from residents detailing issues in relation to bullying and inadequate and unsafe food being provided. [18928/20]