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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We do not need a private rental sector. It is not true. We need homes for people to live in and affordable rents for them. The landlords the Minister spoke about exiting the market cannot bring the homes with them. They do not strap the apartments to their backs, get on a boat and leave; the properties remain here. They cannot remove them. We simply need the State to step in, in every...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: No criteria; everybody should be entitled to be a tenant of the State and to a differential rent. The entire and central problem of the whole Government strategy is that it is obsessed with incentivising the private sector. I ask the Minister, how many is too many? What is the target for when there will be zero? His predecessors had targets for ending homeless - for Joan Burton, it was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Homeless Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We are not saying end it. The Minister knows that is not what we are saying.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all social welfare payments will be increased in line with inflation in the forthcoming budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33170/23]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will ask the Minister a simple question. Does she agree that all social welfare payments should be increased at least in line with the rate of inflation in the forthcoming budget? The Government did not do this in the last budget and the result has been that the poorest people in our society got poorer as a consequence of the decisions the Government made. These consequences are that...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government has been found wanting. More people are at risk of poverty, using food banks and in deprivation. That is the consequence of the Government's decision to increase social welfare rates and so on by less than the rate of inflation, along with lots of other decisions it has made. The Minister referred to the increase of €12, or 5.7%, in the latest budget. Inflation last...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government prioritised once-off payments. The vast majority of the payments the Minister listed are once-off but the price increases are permanent. They are not going to go down. Groceries are not going to decrease in price to where they were a couple of years ago. If inflation goes down, prices do not go down. It is just that the rate of increase is reduced. Unless the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: First, I salute the workers at Tara Mines, who have mounted a protest today. The way they are being treated by their employer, Boliden, is horrendous. They are facing shortly the loss of their jobs and wages and the huge impact that will have on their community. The measure is supposedly temporary, but they are not being given any date or timeframe for when the mine will be back in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has set a target date for ending homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33182/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what new measures she plans to adopt to ensure that people with disabilities are not at risk of poverty due to the cost of disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33167/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of supports provided to Tara Mines workers to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33168/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to increase supports available to homeless families and children given the rise in homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33169/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase social welfare payments in the next Budget to ensure that everyone in the State has at least a minimum essential standard of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33171/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update in relation to the urgent emergency works application by a school (details supplied). [33304/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: You support the live export of calves.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: Blame the victims.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: We need to have a debate this week on the shocking revelations about the dark side of the dairy industry. As a Dáil, we cannot just close our eyes to the horrific treatment of hundreds of thousands of calves on a yearly basis and rise for the summer recess. The Taoiseach earlier seemed to suggest this is just about a few bad apples. That is the Government washing its hands of its...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: The "RTÉ Investigates" programme was on last night. The deadline for having Private Members' Bills in was last Friday. The idea that the Opposition could have anticipated using its time to discuss a programme that was on this week is just not possible.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: This is news now. An investigation has been announced by the Department.