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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [43878/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The nightmare in Gaza is worsening day after day, hour after hour. There is no water, no food, no fuel for the hospitals, no electricity and no basics. The bombs are raining down at an increasing intensity. In the last 24 hours more than 700 people have been killed, bringing the total to over 5,000, including more than 2,000 children. It is really a sick joke to have 15 trucks entering...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the economic policy unit of his Department. [43879/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is a week until the scheme of temporary special leave with pay for healthcare workers with long Covid is due to expire. This is a scheme for healthcare workers who contracted long Covid as a result of their work on the front line. It is due to expire in a week and there is still no announcement, as far as I know, as to whether it will be extended. These are workers who got a round of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government does not do that, however. It is not counted as an occupational illness.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I have spoken about the budget already on a number of occasions. It is very clear the budget works very well for the wealthy in this country and particularly for the big landlords, the corporations who will avail of the research and development tax credit, and the well paid, but it does not work for ordinary people. Today I will focus on a few different groups of ordinary people and how...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I saw that.

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: We have the worst hospital waiting lists in Europe, with more than 1.1 million people on some form of waiting list for healthcare. Incredibly, this is more than one in five of the population. Today, 563 people are on trolleys in hospitals throughout the country, with a record being shamefully broken at University Hospital Limerick when 130 people were waiting for admission there on Monday...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will begin with Dr. O'Mahony. Many of the observations in his opening statement were very powerful, but the most powerful line was: "The status quo, built on maximising production, cheap food policy and driving export demand for dairy and meat, is not working for rural Ireland or for biodiversity." That is a very important point. It is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: To turn to Dr. O'Hagan-Luff and Dr. Ní Dhuill, I agree with much of what they said. I am sceptical, however, about the main drive towards which they are pushing. Last week, the committee heard about the rights of nature approach. Obviously, they are coming at it very much from the natural capital approach. There are fundamental problems with that which I wish to explore and on which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: There might be a problem with the system.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will withdraw the proposals in the Green Paper on disability reform and implement instead a single-tier, non-means-tested disability allowance payment of €350 per week. [46723/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Minister says the proposal in the Green Paper for a three-tier system of disability payments has nothing to do with the UK system. Is it not, however, founded on essentially the same idea as the work capability assessment in Britain, which is a test of capacity to work and then the establishment of tiers? Why should we believe a Government led by a Taoiseach who, when he was in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The UK system is based on a work capability assessment. That is essentially what the system in the Minister's Green Paper is based on. Three tiers flow from that. The Minister said that nobody will have their payments cut but is it not the case that if she implements the proposal outlined in the Green Paper, people could have their payments cut? Those are found to be capable of working...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: -----because it is precisely about the horrendous impact of what I believe is a similar system operating in Britain?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: If the Minister establishes a tiered system based on capacity to work, that will be fine. When it is introduced, she can have the bottom tier, which comprises the most supposedly capable of working, equivalent to the current rates of payment. There is nothing to stop a Minister in a future Government, or another Government, from dropping that because the current Minister has established the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees with an organisation (details supplied) that Budget 2024 is regressive because temporary changes like one-off social protection payments are more concentrated among those on lower incomes, whereas the permanent changes favour the already better off; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46428/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the €4 increase in the qualified child payment will make a significant impact on child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Levels (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she anticipates poverty in this country will be ended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46429/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2024 (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason no additional one-off payment of one-parent family payment was included in Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46426/23]