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Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: This Bill is a very serious attack on freedom of speech and the right of people to protest. Mo Chara from Kneecap is being prosecuted in Britain for opposing the genocide and expressing solidarity with Palestine, and now the Government here is trying to pass legislation that would allow him to be prosecuted here too. Section 3 of the Bill expands the legal definition of provocation of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: When Russia invaded Ukraine, schools organised shows of solidarity with Ukraine but when it comes to Israel's genocide in Gaza, some teachers are being silenced and their clothing choices are being policed. I contacted the Minister recently about Harcourt Terrace Educate Together National School where members of staff have been told not to wear their Keffiyeh scarves. Keffiyehs are simple...

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]

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

Paul Murphy: The TV licence is a regressive, unjust tax.

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

Paul Murphy: The richest household in the country has to pay the same €160 as the poorest eligible household in the country.

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

Paul Murphy: Increasing numbers of people are voting with their feet and boycotting the TV licence. Will the Minister read the writing on the wall, scrap this regressive tax and replace it with a levy on big tech corporations?

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

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. I presume he accepts that the tax is deeply unpopular. Licence sales have plummeted since the Tubridy scandal and everything else that came out in terms of the behaviour of those at the top of RTÉ. In 2022, €950,000 was paid. This dropped to €825,000 in 2023 and €790,000 in 2024. This represents a drop of more than 155,000 households that...

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

Paul Murphy: The Minister might tell us if considers all the countries across Europe that have abolished TV licences not to be constitutional democracies. Is the test of being a constitutional democracy having a TV licence? He might clarify that. I presume he is aware that just over one third of funding for RTÉ and public service broadcasting comes from the TV licence. It is not even where a...

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

Paul Murphy: It sounds like the Minister is interfering now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken against surgeons who performed unnecessary surgeries on children at CHI. [34934/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the action she will take to ensure that financial motives do not compromise children’s healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34935/25]

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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (25 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether an organisation in receipt of State funding (details supplied) should provide an apology to the mother of a girl who died in their care, in circumstances in which as a result of a civil action, the organisation admitted liability. [34674/25]

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...

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...

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: 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...

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

Paul Murphy: It is happening in our airspace.

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

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach will not condemn the US.