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Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (30 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Health whether he will take action to address the steeply rising insurance costs facing community drug services (details supplied). [52930/23]

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [53590/23]

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Arab and Islamic representatives to discuss the conflict in the Middle East. [53591/23]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: People Before Profit has no confidence in the Minister for Justice or this Government. We want the Government to go. The Government is responsible for record levels of rent and homelessness and for almost record house prices. The Government is responsible for almost 1 million people being on some form of public health waiting list. The Government is responsible for not protecting people...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: -----to this abuse and incitement we have seen from the far right? It has responded by conceding ground. Look at what Deputy Coveney told the Financial Times just last week. He said we have to listen to people, effectively the rioters, and then, linked to that, was the idea that asylum seekers would, shamefully, be put on the street with nothing but €75 per week.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: People can read the article. That is no problem.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is not the first time.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: I have.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government fundamentally legitimised the rhetoric and the dehumanisation of the far right by creating inhuman, completely unfair discrimination between asylum seekers. It is treating Ukrainians the way decent people would expect refugees to be treated but treating people who are coming from other conflicts, such as in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, in a completely inhumane way, by putting...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: We saw more of it today with the Government choosing to say that this moment is one, like Micheál Martin shows, to say the far left is effectively as bad as the far right, giving out about some leaflet that People Before Profit produced in Cork. What did you say?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: What we are debating-----

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: No, I did not.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: There was a trial about that. This is absolutely shameful.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: What is happening now is that the far right is organising.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: We have been calling out this organising for well over a year. We have been pointing out the truth, that the Government's police force, presumably with the Government's agreement, has taken a softly-softly approach all through the lie.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Garda allowed people to board buses. It allowed far-right agitators to go in and harass librarians and pharmacists.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Gardaí were there just before refugees were burned out at Sandwith Street.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Where was the left in that? The left was standing with the refugees in Sandwith Street, trying to protect them from the attacks of the far right. The left was organising for the Ireland For All demonstration. The Government's system of deep inequality and discrimination creates a breeding ground for this and then it will not take a stand against them. We have no confidence in the...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: -----that will be able to resist this rising menace of hatred, division and the far right.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Two weeks ago we had riots, incited by the far right, on our streets. Now we have migrants in our city who are afraid to go out for fear that they will be targeted by the far right. What has been the response of the Rural Independent Group? During the original debate and then during the debate yesterday, all of them were at pains to emphasise that the riots that took place were nothing to...