Results 1-20 of 12,708 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: There has been shockingly little coverage of the scandal of the illegal felling of over 30 acres of native broadleaf trees and mature hedgerows in Cork that date back to at least the 1800s, if not earlier. It was revealed by The Journal after an FOI to the National Parks and Wildlife Service last week discovered that nearly 2 km of ancient, long-established hedgerows with high biodiversity...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Toothless.

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, absolutely, and people will vote on that basis.

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Okay. The people who are driving this Spoiled the Vote process are part of the elite. They are not anti-establishment at all. They are a different, more socially conservative part of the elite than Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. They are the Opus Dei wing of the establishment - wealthy fundamentalist Catholics who want to drag us back to the Ireland of the Magdalen laundries, the mother...

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I did not mention anyone. It is for people to assume which of the candidates is which. One of the candidates is someone who defends freedom of speech and ordinary people's right to criticise the European Union, wants to protect neutrality, condemns the genocide in Gaza and all who have supported it, stands with carers and disabled people and voted again and again to ban evictions. People...

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: To insert the following after "or an incumbent to nominate a presidential candidate": "; and — amend the law to allow a petition signed by a minimum of 35,000 people who are eligible to vote in a presidential election to nominate a presidential candidate.". Before I start on the topic, I seek a little leeway, given the events that have happened in Saggart over the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will stop the use of Shannon Airport by the US military while it is assisting Israel’s genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49150/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I did not mention conscription.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is getting ahead of himself.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Who is your presidential candidate? The Taoiseach can criticise her, no problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I condemn.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have said it a million times.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: When I was in the European Parliament, I spoke about Russia and Putin-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----five or six times and Fianna Fáil MEPs did not mention Putin once. I checked the record on that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Jesus.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: He says hopefully.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach's former Cabinet colleague and now preferred choice for President, Heather Humphreys, took part in a radio debate about a week ago during which she said that Irish troops should not be stopped from being sent to Ukraine by a Russian veto. Is that the Taoiseach's position? Is he in favour of sending Irish troops to Ukraine without Russian consent? Doing so would mean placing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: The right of ordinary people in Ukraine to decide what their future is. I am against sending Irish troops to participate----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: That is why I am calling for the immediate, unconditional----