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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I will pursue the issue of civil liability. Even if civil liability stays as something that is there, which people in theory have the right to access, let us say if there is a corporation based in Ireland that is guilty of gross human rights abuses in Latin America, and we have an indigenous farmer or activist who is trying to pursue justice, at the moment we do not have any legal aid in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: So that could be a possible model. Another major part of attempting to water it down is to exclude pension funds and alternative investment funds like hedge funds. That is very relevant for Ireland, as a centre of finance capital with the IFSC. Could the witnesses outline why it does not make any sense to exclude these companies from responsibility for what happens?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: To clarify that, as long as they can show they did their due diligence at the point of the investment or whatever, they are covered if everything deteriorates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have a question that is probably for Ms Lawlor. One of the interesting points that struck me in the Make it Your Business report is the reference to a study done by Trinity College in 2019. She is listed as being one of the authors of the study, which analysed 60 of the largest firms operating in Ireland. It found that 34% of the publicly listed companies scored zero against every human...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Lawlor. I have one final point. We are speculating a bit here about the motivation for the Government being a laggard on this issue. The point was made that Ireland is home to a lot of SMEs, but is it not also partly that Ireland is home to a lot of multinational corporations that base themselves here? We have the top five global software companies, 14 of the top 15 medical...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the UN General Assembly. [51714/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I met with aid agencies recently, who are warning that a devastating famine on a scale not seen since Somalia in 1992 when up to 300,000 people died is now imminent in the Horn of Africa. Already, hundreds of thousands of women and children have been forced from their homes and are gathering in large camps where supplies, including water, are expensive and increasingly scarce. These are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Or Yemen maybe.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: We do all the time. The Taoiseach can put that on the record. We condemn Russia.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [53230/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: On Sunday, I joined workers protesting outside Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. They have been protesting over the last few weeks about the implementation of parking charges for them. The cost will amount to at least €600 annually for many of the workers, which they will have to pay just to come to their place of work. If they cannot find a space in the limited staff car park and have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [51715/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government has very cynically used Putin's imperialist and brutal invasion of Ukraine to drive a coach and horses through what is left of the idea of neutrality. Last week the Minister, Deputy Coveney, said that Ireland will participate in the EU's training mission for the Ukrainian army expected to get under way in mid-November. It is very clear that this is the next step in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is what the Government is doing. It is more shocking to do it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I said it three times in a row.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is lying and the record will show it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Why are people being sent to NATO headquarters?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is trying to drag us into a military conflict with no vote in the Dáil.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: Is that all the EU military training is doing? No, it is not.

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: I welcome many aspects of this motion, in particular the call for privatised routes to be renationalised. This should start immediately with the pathetic excuse for a service being inflicted on ordinary people by Go-Ahead Ireland. I have been inundated with complaints from people who have been stranded as a result of the No. 175 bus not turning up. Go-Ahead Ireland was recently fined...