Results 12,221-12,240 of 12,400 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 918. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on mesh centres, including outlining specifically the amount the translabial scanners have cost.. [32726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Women's Health (17 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 922. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the status of the report of the National Vaginal Mesh Implant Oversight Group; whether the report has been completed; and her views on whether the report is objective given the fact that no representatives of women suffering from mesh injuries were included in the process of compiling it. [32730/25]

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to thank all the participants in the Global March to Gaza, particularly the Irish ones, for the support we received from ordinary people in this country. I express my wish that everyone currently being detained by the Egyptian authorities is released, able to go home, and to continue to apply pressure to prevent the sort of scenes we saw yesterday where more than 50 people were killed...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is interesting in debates in the House and on the media how the Government will not own its own proposals. It tells us that what it is doing is going to increase investment in the rental sector and that will ultimately bring rents down. That is the underlying logic of what the Government is doing. However, it refuses to say the bit in the middle in terms of why this is going to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (19 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the positions that Ireland is taking in the negotiations on the EU’s corporate sustainability due diligence directive; and the reasons why these positions are being taken. [33032/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (19 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will speak out against the watering down of the EU’s corporate sustainability due diligence directive so that important human rights and environmental clauses are not weakened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33031/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a poverty impact assessment was carried out on the Government’s decision to allow for rents to be reset to market rates between tenancies; if provision will be made for increasing rent supplement in line with the increase in rents that will arise from this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33027/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (19 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps he will take to address the massive rise in consistent poverty among children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33028/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Over the weekend, the world’s biggest military power, under Trump, launched an unprovoked and illegal air assault on Iran. The Taoiseach has repeatedly refused to condemn this assault. I invite him again to condemn it now. We need to have a debate in this House on the US assault on Iran, the situation in the Middle East, and the imperative of defending our neutrality and ending the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last year, the International Court of Justice held that all states are under an obligation to abstain from entering into economic or trade dealings and to prevent trade or investment relations with the occupied territories. There was no mention of an obligation just relating to goods. Instead, it was all trade and investment relations. The Government has in the past few months discovered...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government lay the advice before the committee?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach will not condemn the US.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is happening in our airspace.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Relations (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Labour Employer Economic Forum; and when it will next meet. [32309/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Relations (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The number one issue facing many workers is housing, and the Government has repeatedly claimed both that it will both deliver new social homes and that the planning system is to blame for the lack of delivery so far. This month, however, funding for the delivery of almost 500 social homes has gone up in smoke. Almost 3,500 planned social homes, many with full planning permission, are in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [33925/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the poor state of healthcare for those suffering with allergies in this country. Many parents are forced to spend huge amounts to travel abroad to get their children the treatment they need. I spoke to a woman a few months ago who had to go to America for six weeks. She had to pay €8,000 for treatment. She was also out of work for six weeks and had to pay for...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I found the “RTÉ Investigates” programme horrifying, obviously, and very difficult to watch. It was clear that the older people were not being treated as human beings, with decency, dignity and respect. Instead, many were being treated simply as a burden – a burden for whom there were not enough gloves or incontinence pads. They were treated like sacks of meat...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Another year, another cursory debate and then another voting-through of draconian legislation tonight. I will speak against and vote against the legislation but the Government and the vast majority of the Opposition will vote in favour of curtailing basic civil liberties. The Special Criminal Court was established 53 years ago, supposedly on an emergency basis. The original emergency for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will abolish the TV licence and replace it with a tax on big tech companies to fund public service broadcasting. [35187/25]