Results 11,401-11,420 of 12,400 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----before our children's future.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: It does not look like it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: How many jobs are in data centres, Taoiseach?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on plans to implement the Dublin city task force recommendations. [6089/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Dublin city centre task force recommends improving public transport by implementing the city centre transport plan. How on earth does the Taoiseach think this is compatible with outsourcing more and more routes to private companies like Go-Ahead Ireland, which has been a disaster for commuters? Workers and students in Tallaght, Knocklyon and Rathfarnham have had their lives turned...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [6088/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: As we speak, representatives of two big imperialist powers are sitting down in Saudi Arabia to decide the future of Ukraine - to carve it up without any Ukrainian representatives even being present. It is illustrative of the fact that the world we live in is increasingly divided between these big imperialist powers and their rivalries and it underlines the need for Ireland to be a consistent...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Can we give the Taoiseach more time?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Can we take time from the third grouping?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not happening.

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: There is a major crisis in respect of school places coming down the line again. I hear words but I do not see action to avert that crisis. In 24 hours last week, I was contacted by four different families all in a panic. I was told by Elliot's parents in Celbridge that they had applied for the six relevant schools in their area with special classes and had received rejections from all six....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will act to stop the sale of Israeli bonds by the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is concerned that outsourcing relationships with particular private contractors are contributing to exorbitant costs for OPW contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the current tax-free allowances for pensioners; when these were last changed; if there are any plans to adjust them in light of the increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5456/25]

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have to say it has been a pretty depressing debate so far, with a few honourable exceptions. Most of the Deputies have swallowed and then regurgitated the spin from big tech. I find it incredible that we had a speech from the new Minister of State with responsibility for AI and its only reference to climate change is about AI being used to help us address sustainability and climate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will abolish subminimum wages for young workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6496/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister finally abolish the legalised discrimination and super-exploitation of young people in this country who are currently legally paid as little as €9.50 an hour, purely on the basis of their age? Will he abolish these subminimum wage rates whereby those under 18 can legally be paid less than the minimum wage? The can has been kicked down the road for years now. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister of State says we should not rush into a decision. It is two years since this Dáil passed a Bill that I brought forward to abolish these rates. The Government brought in a timed amendment to delay it for a year so the Low Pay Commission could report. The Low Pay Commission studied it with the ESRI study, as the Minister of State said, and it came out with clear...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (20 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Where is the nuance? Will the Minister of State tell me why 18-year-olds should be legally paid 80% of the minimum wage? They cannot tell their landlord they will only pay 80% of the rent. They cannot give a supermarket 80% of the cost of their groceries. What is the objective justification for paying a young person less than the minimum wage purely on the basis of his or her age? ...