Results 7,841-7,860 of 12,388 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: There have been campaigns for years by groups that represent more than 500,000 retired workers. It is 18 months since the Bill passed Second Stage in the House, but the Minister of State is just saying that we will have a consultation. Does he accept it is a problem that six months after a person who has paid into an occupational pension scheme for all his or her working life retires, that...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: I definitely did listen.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: I heard exactly what the Minister of State said earlier. He just repeated it. The essence of it is that the Department is going to explore the matter to see if we can help. That is great. Some 18 months after this was brought very firmly to his attention, the Minister of State has indicated that the Department must see if there is anything it can do. The Minister of State indicated that...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: It is coming.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: I want the Minister of State to have an answer. The problem is he does not even intend to have an answer.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government will seek to exclude banks and investment funds from the scope of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62115/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: This question is about the corporate sustainability due diligence directive. It is potentially very important European legislation that would make corporations responsible for human rights abuses, labour rights abuses, environmental abuses and consumer rights abuses throughout their supply chain. Unfortunately, it is being subject to intense lobbying by big corporations to try to water it...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. It is good to hear the Government opposed the watering-down that happened at the latest European Council meeting. Reuters reported that at an earlier stage in the negotiations the Government indicated it wanted to exclude asset managers and institutional investors from the scope and that it said in a submission it could not signal its agreement to including...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (13 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: I hope the Parliament will adopt a strong position and in trilogue this will be strengthened again and the financial sector will be brought back in. If not, that creates a danger, as the Minister of State himself pointed out, of a patchwork of different regulations in different countries. That is against the whole purpose of the EU and also creates pressure for a race to the bottom because...
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: I move: "That Dáil Éireann: agrees that: — privatisation and marketisation of the energy system has failed; — it has led to exorbitant household heating and electricity costs, averaging €4,300 a year, unprecedented levels of energy poverty, carbon emissions that are among the highest and fastest growing in the European Union, and dependence on imported...
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: We never voted for a carbon tax.
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: We were against a carbon tax.
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: We were the first ones against a carbon tax.
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: No, we did not. We did not support carbon tax.
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: The problem-----
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: The capitalist market is not working now. What does the Minister say to that?
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: Yes. We are internationalist.
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: We are not proposing to nationalise people's solar panels-----
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: But the private companies are not doing it.
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)
Paul Murphy: They are not. The Minister should look at-----