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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did you ask him to stop sending weapons?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Answer the question, which you have been dodging from the media.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: It would be nice to get an answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: First, I wish to object to the use of a number of guillotines this week. Second, I make the point strongly that we need a debate or a question-and-answer session this week on the issue of munitions flying through Irish sovereign airspace. We have been requesting this debate, as have others, since the Dáil came back and all the evidence suggests that munitions continued to fly through...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Two years ago this week, tens of thousands of third level students led by USI walked out of lecture theatres to protest over the student accommodation crisis and the cost-of-living crisis. Two years on, they will do exactly the same this Thursday, 17 October at 11.30 a.m. Most of their problems have only got worse. The housing crisis has got worse and the cost-of-living crisis has got...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will give an update on the programme for Government. [40039/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government states, "We do not support the impartation of fracked gas" and "[W]e do not believe that it make(s) sense to develop LNG gas import terminals importing fracked gas". The Government received legal advice three years ago that fracked gas import could not be banned under EU law. The only way to stop fracked gas imports is by not building the LNG infrastructure to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [40040/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: One of the issues that is having the greatest negative impact on the well-being of children is the rising number of children who are forced to grow up in emergency accommodation and overcrowded hotel rooms, staying there for months if they are “lucky” or even for years. The scourge of child homelessness is worsening no matter how often we are told that the situation is going to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [40041/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Did the question of housing come up at the competitiveness summit? It is clearly a major issue in workers being able to have affordable housing somewhere in some sort of achievable commutable distance from their work. It seems that a key issue continues to be the fact that councils are taking public land and selling it off for very low prices to private developers as opposed to having a...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, opened by saying that child protection is simply too important to be used as a political football. In fairness to the Minister, he did not engage in political football through his speech. He set out some issues regarding child protection, which I will get into because his Department's approach is very inadequate. That approach of not using this issue as a...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I first object to the guillotining of this Bill. It is a sign of the arrogance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that after 100 years in power, either together or by themselves, they routinely ram important Bills through the Dáil without proper scrutiny. I suspect we will see more of it next week as well. They do it because it is politically convenient for them. I turn to the...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this good motion. I have not been able to be present at this debate until now because I was at an online meeting with a range of campaigners on disability services of various sorts, including parents of children with additional needs, parents of children with scoliosis who are being badly failed by the State and disabled people themselves. What is brewing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Natural Gas Grid (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will reverse his support for liquefied natural gas infrastructure in Ireland, in light of evidence that it is more polluting than coal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41621/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Natural Gas Grid (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: My question is on the same topic. I do not know if the Minister just takes everybody for a fool. Does he really expect people to believe that after the Government brings in amendments to designate LNG terminals as strategic infrastructure, which gets to bypass the normal planning process, it is a technical thing? This is in the context of many of the Green Party's coalition partners being...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Natural Gas Grid (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am sorry but that does not assuage any of my concerns. Oisín Coghlan is chief executive of Friends of the Earth, which is not the wing of the environmental movement that is most critical of the Green Party. It has sometimes spoken positively about the party's record in government. Oisín Coghlan has said: You don’t legally designate something you oppose, or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Natural Gas Grid (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister is saying that it could be ensured that fracked gas is not used in this so-called State-led LNG terminal. However, the Government's policy statement from May 2021 is clear. It is not possible for Ireland, under the European treaties or EU directives concerning common rules of the internal market in natural gas, to legislate for a ban on the import of fracked gas into Ireland or...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: What does the Minister say to those families who are facing yet another 10% price increase in bin charges by Greyhound? It is outrageous price gouging. Going back three years, the company was charging €16.50 per month. Now it is up to almost €30 per month, or €300 per year. Incredibly, Greyhound is claiming that one of the reasons it is increasing prices is that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: That will help pay the bills.