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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: It might not be comfortable for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and their supporters in the Lowry group to hear that truth but this is about diminishing the capacity of the Opposition to hold the Government to account.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Something that has not got much coverage in this-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Government Members can try to shout me down but the Taoiseach and the Government propose to halve the number of Taoiseach's questions in any given week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: At the same time as he pretends to be standing up for the rights of backbenchers, the Taoiseach is halving the opportunities that exist for backbenchers and others. Why is he doing that? It is because he wants to play this game of allowing people to pretend they are in the Opposition when they are in the Government. It will be resisted.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Have you read the UN charter?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [6432/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is hard to imagine a more impactful measure on the wellness of both people and the planet than insulating people's homes. I want to raise an incredible case in my constituency where a family is being threatened with prison for retrofitting and insulating their home. In 2018, Clive Ryan from Kilnamanagh received a Government grant from the SEAI to retrofit his home with external wall...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was just regular. Then they said that he needed planning permission but he does not have it, and he must pay a fine or take it off.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but so far it has been denied. It has not been accepted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet [6433/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: On Friday parents of children with additional needs were forced to sleep outside the Department of Education to try to fight for appropriate school places for their children. Earlier that day, the Government announced 254 new special classes in schools. That is much less than the 400 that had been promised. However, when you delve into the detail there are not even 254. I have...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: The motion is right that there has been a lot of waste by this Government so far and by successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments down through the years. The motion and the analysis and speeches we have heard from the proposers, however, fail to look under the bonnet and figure out why this waste is happening. The solutions proposed would actually make things even worse. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Taoiseach aware of the report into hip operations at Children's Health Ireland, which has been reported on in The Ditch? It suggests, incredibly, that nearly 80% of hip operations carried out on children in Cappagh hospital, and 60% of those operations in Temple Street, were unnecessary surgeries done on children. A whistleblower suggests they may have been done "purely for financial...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: We are in the midst of a manufactured moral panic. To divert attention from away from its failures on housing, health, disability and climate, the Government prefers to have endless statements on policing and to pass more laws that erode our civil liberties. The programme for Government contains a frightening litany of attacks on civil liberties, all under the guise of getting tough on...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Bhí oibrithe na heagraíochtaí Gaeilge amuigh ar stailc an tseachtain seo caite. Bhí siad go tógáil raic agus iad i mbun ágóidíochta in aghaidh na gciorruithe atá á gearradh orthu. Deir siad go bhfuil sé soiléir anois go bhfuil struchtúr maoinithe Fhoras na Gaeilge briste. Tá thart ar €17 milliún...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is what it is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: Shocking new figures were published in The Mirror today about Irish horses slaughtered in English abattoirs. They suggest that 782 horses with Irish passports were slaughtered in England last year. A total of 538 of those had racing industry passports. In other words, they were racing horses. At least 46% of these were five years old or younger. To be clear, these were not euthanised....

International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: If we want to tackle gender-based violence, then we have to call a halt to the tidal wave of misogyny coming at young men on social media every day. It is disgusting that the big social media corporations - the so-called big tech "broligarchy" of Zuckerberg and Musk - are profiting from pushing misogynistic, sexist content at teenage boys and men. Rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tait,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to reform the DIRT tax from a flat tax to a progressive model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9888/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) currently does not have school wardens assigned to it; if the appropriate resources will be allocated to the school to ensure they are put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10028/25]