Results 181-200 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: The nightmare for the people in Gaza continues to worsen. For two years, they have been facing an Israeli genocide. More than 65,000 people have been killed, more than 20,000 children among them. Some 92% of homes have been destroyed or damaged. All the hospitals have been destroyed or damaged. Two hundred and fifty journalists have been murdered. Since March, famine has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Spanish state has also sent a vessel to help protect it. There are 22 Irish citizens on board, including Senator Chris Andrews, with Deputy Barry Heneghan due to join him. Their lives are in danger. What is the Government going to do protect them? What accountability will there be?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government at the very least send a representative to join the legal observer boat to be a witness?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when subminimum pay rates for young workers will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50574/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: In the run-up to last year's general election, the Government promised to abolish subminimum wage rates for young workers. When will it do it? Will this turn into another broken promise to workers and young people, alongside a week's sick pay and the promise of a living wage?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: Did I hear the Minister correctly? Did he say he will not do it until 2029? Is that what he said?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is an over and back exchange. That is the nature of the format. The Minister said the rate would not be changed until 2029 or he would consider it at that stage. I ask him to clarify that. It is incredible. We introduced a Bill to get rid of this legalised superexploitation of young people in 2022, which was passed on Second Stage. It would have gotten rid of the rate in 2023, with a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister's bluster will not disguise what is a viciously anti-worker and anti-young person policy. The Minister is saying that 19-year-olds, 18-year-olds and 17-year-olds do not deserve to get the minimum wage - the inadequate minimum wage - in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. The Minister is saying that people who go to work and do the same work as the workers next door to them,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: This question is about subminimum rates.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: If they cannot afford to pay the minimum wage, they should not be in business.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support increasing the national minimum wage to €17 per hour to address the cost of living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50126/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support a substantial increase in the national minimum wage in 2026 to address the cost of living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50125/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has analysed the impact on child poverty of the previous Minister's decision to more than double penalty cuts to jobseekers' payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50504/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have had their jobseekers' payments cut, by month, to date in 2025; the amount deducted from payments as a result; to compare this with previous years; if his Department has analysed the impact this has had on child poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50505/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the reason persons from Ireland provided more submissions than all other EU states combined, in response to the call for experiences of people to explore the implementation of Directive 2019/1937 (Whistleblowing Directive); and if he is satisfied that the Directive has been properly transposed. [50939/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide an ASD unit at a school (details supplied); and the timeline for this provision. [50917/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a child (details supplied) who has been diagnosed with autism while in secondary school and needs a place in an ASD unit; and in view of the fact the child’s current school does not have such a unit, to be facilitated in transferring to another school with an appropriate unit. [50918/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the function of the Traveller Accommodation Unit (TAU); the means by which funds from the TAU are allocated for housing in traveller communities; whether the funds can be used to staff traveller liaison officers, or other key support workers in Local Authorities; the amount of funding local authorities are allowed...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the review of the Multi Unit Developments Act. [50919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (25 Sep 2025)

Paul Murphy: 318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 346 of 27 February 2024, and Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 7 March 2023 and Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 29 November 2017, to provide an update on the progress on the payment of an ex-gratia payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....