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Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government makes a commitment to hold a referendum on housing. The time of this Government is coming to an end one way or another. It is simply a matter of months before the next election. The Housing Commission went off and proposed wording which states: 1°: The State recognises that having a home is of fundamental importance to quality of life and that access to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the shared island initiative by his Department. [28204/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: What action has the Taoiseach taken to implement the all-island rail review? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, transport emissions increased again last year. To reach the legally binding target for transport, they must fall 12% this year and by 12% next year. It is very likely that this simply will not happen and then the cut from 2026 to 2030 will have to be even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the peace summit he attended in Switzerland. [27046/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: First, I express my horror and outrage at the attack on civilian infrastructure and specifically the attack on the children's hospital in Kyiv by the Russian military. It is absolutely horrendous to see the pictures from that hospital. It certainly seems to be a clear war crime by the Putin regime. In relation to the summit, this was heralded as a peace summit. Obviously, though, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their work on this. It is a no-brainer from the point of view of workers, communities and our environment. Do any of the witnesses have figures for the profits of the waste management companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I think most of them are unlimited companies that do not file with the Companies Office so they do not publish their profits, if I am not mistaken. Will any of the witnesses address that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: That is precisely the point. There is a problem in having a public discussion here when we do not know the figure. They trot out that because people are doing as they are asked to do, which is to bring their bottles and cans back to the shops for the deposit return scheme, they need to increase the price of the green bin to compensate for that. There is no public evidence to suggest that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: This relates to what Mr. Kane is saying. He mentioned bin workers' cite health and safety concerns that have been raised in survey after survey. What sort of concerns do they have? Presumably this is something that has changed since the move to private ownership.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: There is one area where we might diverge a little, or perhaps it is just a question of timing. Councillor Doolan said that we do not want to turn the clock back and, obviously, we do not want to turn the clock back in terms of having just one black bin and there need to be multiple bins. Why not turn the clock back in terms of bringing this fully under the control of council-run services as...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: An Post is pursing a privatisation agenda. Tallaght post office, along with five others, is on the chopping block. This will mean that one of the busiest post offices in the State will be closed down. The workers will be forcibly redeployed elsewhere and the community will be left with a much-reduced service in a smaller post office in a different location. I have raised this again and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I also refer to the British elections. Ordinary people across Britain are delighted to see the back of the Tories after 14 years which saw corporate profits soar while their waters were polluted by privatised corporations, the number of food banks exploded to an extraordinary level and child poverty increased. As has been said, Keir Starmer seems determined to say little will change either...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The far right is on the March across Europe. They topped the poll in six countries in the European Union elections. They came second in another two. They got about 20% right across the EU. A key question is this: how were they defeated? We have debated before whether the so-called "centre" is best placed to defeat them or whether the left is best placed to defeat them. We have seen a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [29525/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: The way that children with additional needs are failed by this State is nothing short of scandalous. I have no end of parents contacting me who have been on waiting lists for long times and with no end in sight. What it comes down to is the understaffing and underfunding of our health service and an absence of therapists. I will give one particular example, namely, the massive shortage of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: It does not seem to me to that the HSE is recruiting because the vacancies still exist.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: Senator Gavan asked whether there would be an explosion of youth unemployment were there to be an abolition of sub-minimum wage rates and Ms McCabe said absolutely. Does she stand over that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: That relates to an increase in the minimum wage generally as opposed to in this area. To quote from the Low Pay Commission, it stated: The ... most common argument was that increasing or abolishing sub minimum youth rates might increase youth unemployment. This argument was made by Ibec, Retail Ireland, the VFI, the IHF, the CSNA and ISME. It goes on to state "none of the submissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: I ask the witnesses from the ESRI to comment. Do they think there would be an explosion of youth unemployment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: We should be paying them really.