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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State accept there is an unfairness here? There are students this year who, with a given set of results, will not achieve a college place they would have achieved last year or the year before or whatever. There is a fundamental unfairness here. I accept that within this artificial scarcity - an effectively fake market being created for the points system - it is...
- Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: While there is a lot of rhetoric in this debate about protecting workers, it is necessary to take the veil away from some of that rhetoric from the Government and some Opposition parties. Behind that veil, what they are really talking about is protecting the big US multinationals that have operations here, acting on the basis that big pharma and tech have the same interests as workers. That...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2024 average grade inflation for Leaving Certificate students was 7.5%, in 2025 it will be lowered to 5.5.%, thus the class of 2025 will get approximately 15 to 16 points less than last year, however one in four CAO applicants in 2025 will be using their points from 2024; the way in which she...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out, commissioned, or consulted on any research into the likely climate impact of US LNG imported into Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17929/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether a commercial LNG facility along the lines of Shannon LNG is compatible with the State’s legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17927/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I asked the Minister previously if he was aware of the emissions impact that US LNG would have here, which is estimated to be at least 33% worse than coal. He initially ignored the question and then waffled on about it depending on various factors. I am asking again, more precisely, what research his Department has carried out, whether commissioned or consulted, into the likely climate...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I was at a Dáil Business Committee meeting.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: The Minister has a very simple question in front of him. For the benefit of anyone watching these proceedings from outside the House, he receives the question in advance and his civil servants write an answer. The question asked whether the Minister and the Department have carried out, commissioned or consulted any research into the likely climate impact of US energy imported into Ireland....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I do.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: The message-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Come on.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yes, I have a fixation on climate change.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Climate change is going to destroy the lives of our children.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: It is going to make----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: -----the earth effectively largely uninhabitable for all but the richest. That is the trajectory we are on. I have a fixation on climate change, absolutely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: The Minister should have a fixation on climate change.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: You should-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Well, what do I have a fixation on?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: What do I have a fixation on? If it was not climate change, what do I have a fixation on?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: So-----