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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Normally, the Taoiseach reads the response first and then we speak.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government refers to reforming the triple lock legislation. It was reported last Friday that a draft law to end the triple lock will shortly be brought to Cabinet. Will the Taoiseach provide some detail on this? In what way is the triple lock going to be ended or reformed? Back in 2013, the Taoiseach, who was not then Taoiseach, hit the nail on the head when he said that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: You believed it in 2013.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: No. It does not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The quickest, easiest and most immediate response to the housing crisis is to deal with the scourge of vacancy and dereliction. In almost every estate in Dublin South-West one will find vacant houses. These are perfectly good homes or they were at one stage. They could be used to house families. Instead, they are a blight on the community. We got figures recently that 14,500 of the more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for the implementation of the programme for Government. [4512/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is the last man standing from the Fianna Fáil Governments that blew up the property bubble and then saw the whole thing come crashing down and ordinary people paid the price for a decade or so. It seems the Taoiseach is committed to going back to the future. He is resurrecting the same policies that caused the 2008 financial crash. At the weekend, it was tax breaks for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Why did you not say this during the election?

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Healy. I will leave at least three minutes for him, maybe more. We will see. Here we are with the first Bill of this Dáil and this Government, and we are off to an extremely bad start, both procedurally, because the debate is being guillotined, and with respect to what the Government is proposing. We are having a short Second Stage debate and then we...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: First, I am disappointed that my proposed amendment and the amendment from Deputy Gibney were ruled out of order. I understand the reason given was that they were not in line with the spirit of the Bill. Deputy Gibney's amendment sought to have the maximum number of junior Ministers set at 20, while I sought to have it set at 15. It seems to me that this is legislation changing the number...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Minister not embarrassed to have his first act in this Government and in this Dáil be such a stroke and to be so blatant in sharing out the spoils of political office? Is he not embarrassed to have to trot out the line that "Oh, it is really about the size of the population and we need more people" and so on? Does it not cause him to cringe even a little bit inside to so...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn US President Trump's advocacy of US "ownership" of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4497/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on US President Trump's plan to colonise Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will boycott the traditional St. Patrick's Day visit to the White House in light of President Trump's advocacy for ethnic cleansing and a US occupation of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the power-up grant will be examined to allow previously non-eligible businesses to apply (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4678/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will act to remove faith formation, including sacramental preparation, from the core school day; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will act to remove the requirement for primary school teachers to have a Catholic religious education certificate to be eligible for most teaching jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4654/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equal Opportunities Employment (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will legislate to remove the discrimination permitted under section 37(1) of the Employment Equality Act 1998; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline what happened for the international day of famine commemoration. [4295/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Events (11 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 344. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is aware of the fact that a number of dance students have qualified for the upcoming dance world championships; and if grants will be made available to these students to help alleviate some of the financial burden which comes with travelling for such tournaments. [4704/25]