Results 10,601-10,620 of 12,400 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: The far right is, unfortunately, on the march across Europe. It is on the verge of coming to power in France. We will see what has happened by the end of the week. We hope it is not in power. It will be the first far right government in France since the Vichy regime. The party of the RN has its origins in that regime. Members of the SS operated within France in support of the Nazi...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: They are not really socialist governments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: He is a socialist in name only.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent telephone conversation with President Biden. [27045/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I do not know whether the Taoiseach watched the US presidential debate last week. It was a spectacle that in many ways is like a microcosm of the death agony or decline of US imperialism. On the one hand, there was a man who is a congenital liar who basically could not open his mouth without telling a lie, a sexual abuser and an authoritarian, hard-right politician who encouraged an...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [28202/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I wish to raise the issue of investment in our sewerage infrastructure. I have raised this issue previously, but I encountered two new cases of it while campaigning in the local elections, one in Alderwood Grove and the other in Glenview Park, both of which are in Tallaght. I presume there are hundreds of such cases across the country whereby people have raw sewage coming out through...
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am sharing time. What we see here is an exercise in boiling the frog of neutrality, that is, just turning up the temperature, bit by bit, and hoping the people will not notice; removing any real content from the word "neutrality" while keeping simply the word; getting rid of the triple lock, which, as the Tánaiste said himself, is at the core of our neutrality; and signing up for more...
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I will tell the Tánaiste why it is misinformation. I quoted this previously to him and he did not respond.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: Section 1 of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006 clearly refers, in the context of the triple lock, to "an international force or body established, mandated, authorised, endorsed, supported, approved or otherwise sanctioned by a resolution of the Security Council or the General Assembly of the United Nations". It is simply not true that we have any veto. A regional peacekeeping force that was...
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: You supported von der Leyen.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: Developing underwater assets.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I do not believe in it.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I do not believe we should participate in European militarisation.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: A region-----
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: Go back and read the debate from 2006.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I wanted a citizens' assembly like you wanted. You changed your mind.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to abolish the regressive TV licence model; if he will instead consider taxing large multimedia corporations to fund public service broadcasters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28772/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: This is a regressive tax no matter how it is looked at. The poorest eligible household in the country pays €160 and the richest household in the country pays €160. It is a regressive, unjust tax that hundreds of thousands of people are refusing to pay, a number that has increased in the context of the outrage at what was happening at the very top of RTÉ, with massive pay...