Results 11,141-11,160 of 12,400 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: How many jobs are in data centres in this country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: I will go one more time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: Minister, may I ask the question one more time? I would like an answer. The Minister is talking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: Yes, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is a joke that the Minister comes in here and says we need more data centres in order to transition and because of all the jobs, but when he is asked about how many jobs-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: Yes, but that is not what I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: Has the Minister been lobbied by the data centre industry either individually as data centres or the varying lobbying organisations? If so, what have been they been pushing for and what has been his response? What measures are being taken to ensure the policy on data centres does not place significant stress on Ireland's water supply, as well as the stress on our electricity supply? We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: What did they request?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: To be clear, the Minister agreed with their asks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am just wondering. He tells me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am asking the Minister about it.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to abolish sub-minimum wages, as recommended by the Low Pay Commission and the ESRI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43534/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: 90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is going to implement the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages by 15 November; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43536/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) is no longer going to receive financial backing from the Central Remedial Clinic; if she will provide a guarantee that her Department will provide funding to this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43608/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will recognise the ongoing work and dedication of educators in the early years by listening to their advocacy campaign and providing professional status for the early years sector; and if not, the reason therefor. [43610/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP29: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: Yes. I thank the witnesses for their presentations and their work. I also mention the presence of representatives from Friends of the Earth, who similarly have obviously been doing a lot of work on this. They have not been invited due to an oversight which we attempted to resolve earlier but were unable to due to various rules about privilege. Hopefully we will not make that mistake in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP29: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: Could our guests give their opinions on the idea of a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty? We are seeing the real structural limitations of the COP process, although that does not mean we should throw it in the bin, particularly as it is global in nature. Effectively, the slowest moving and most powerful countries in the world, which are beholden to fossil fuel interests, are able to stop...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP29: Discussion (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: To focus on the climate finance question, what are the obstacles and the forces behind those obstacles to the sort of agreement and ambition that our guests are arguing are necessary? I agree with what they have said.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: What about the US ambassador?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: I ask him to respond.