Results 181-200 of 385 for long speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...a really terrifying story. Pete's family were told to prepare for the worst but he managed to recover, defying the odds. Like tens of thousands of others in this country, he is now suffering from long Covid. He described to me his brain fog, post-traumatic stress disorder and difficulty breathing. He still needs regular support, which he describes as essential and which he gets from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Needed to Support the Economic Recovery Plan: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...witnesses for their presentation and the submission. I want to focus on the question of green jobs, which should be central to job creation in the coming years. I know the expert group has a very long report on skills for zero carbon. There is a lot in it that is very good and a lot that I agree with but it tends to take a pretty narrow view of what type of green jobs will exist. I...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...the Chamber. He will be delighted. The €5 and the increase in means test thresholds are still extremely minimal, but we will take them. You have to put pressure on in this place. It takes a long time to get even a fiver for people. I will speak more generally then. I refer to what has become an annual tradition, that of the €5 increases in social welfare payments,...

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...as possible but we also must push for the lifting of the patents so the whole world can be vaccinated to lessen the chance of more and deadly variants. Ventilation is an important measure of prevention, along with hand hygiene and mask wearing. We must also step up the use of FFP2 and other quality masks that give far more protection. We should provide them free of charge. Vastly...

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...makes him more qualified than all those experts. It is an embarrassment. The truth is the Minister has lost the confidence of people, even Government Deputies and, it seems, his Taoiseach. It cannot be long before he faces-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (17 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...the North. It recently abstained on a poor and shameful anti-choice Bill from the DUP. There should be no abstaining on the right to choose. That is why People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll has long been a strong advocate for choice and, therefore, voted against this terrible Bill. One cannot have a partitionist approach to women's rights - saying one thing in Dublin and another in...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...that one needed a minimum of €350 a year or six months ago, why in this wave of the pandemic is it acceptable to cut it in the run-up to Christmas? It should not be cut; it should be restored to €350 as long as the serious effects of the pandemic are with us, as long as parts of the economy are being shut down and as long as people are unemployed.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (16 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 309. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason it was decided not to send any Irish long term observers to the OSCE election observation mission in Kyrgyzstan; the number of roster members by gender that applied to participate as short term observers for the election in Kyrgyzstan ; the number by gender that have been nominated for this mission; if nominated observers are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...women yet in many rural communities and counties such as Carlow there is no domestic violence refuge available. The Carlow Women's Refuge Campaign supported by Councillor Adrienne Wallace has long been pushing for this injustice to be corrected. Numerous reports and experts have recommended it. Two temporary emergency accommodation units have been provided but this is far from adequate....

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...clearly meant to be left with the impression that, just like the rate, the means test is also increasing immediately. I have been dealing with a guy, who is a pensioner, as is his wife. That is the income they have, along with a small amount of extra income, and between them they are €5 over the current means test. When he heard the news that it had been increased by €20,...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...Government is going to increase the number of intensive care unit, ICU, beds by 19. Fair play. We have one of the lowest rates of ICU beds in the OECD per 100,000 people. It was one of the reasons we had such long, extended lockdowns. Our healthcare system was badly exposed to Covid-19. An extra 19 beds will still leave us at the bottom of that table. It is completely inadequate. ...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...here proposes to wring its hands, say how bad things are then, according to its countermotion, propose nothing to alleviate the burden facing people but reassure them that competition between suppliers is an important means of exerting downward pressure on electricity prices and that they should not worry because neoliberalism and capitalism will sort it out in the long term. Energia...

Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...the right to fresh air at work and require bosses to ensure that there is proper ventilation. We have seen with Covid-19 just how important this is. The need for proper ventilation was there long before Covid, however, and will continue when Covid hopefully passes. Poorly ventilated workplaces not only expose workers to many viruses and illnesses but poor air quality can also lead to...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...builds and also include refurbishments. As we know - we debated it last week - the Government bowed to the lobbying of the private developers in accepting that many of them would be exempt for a long time into the future. The other point is that literally a week or so after the publication of Housing for All, the same Government policy continued, with the privatisation of public land...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...Dáil. They were protesting against the proposal, which the Government is pushing ahead with, for the outsourcing or tendering of their work. They were able to tell stories of how they help the long-term unemployed. They work alongside them to try to get jobs that would be suitable for them. They rightly pointed out that the drive of the Government would turn this from a useful...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...xe1;intecare implementation advisory council and that of Professor Geraldine McCarthy, chair of the board of the South/Southwest Hospital Group. In her resignation letter, she wrote: I have waited for a long time for developments led by successive ministers for health and government. However, recent information and my own experiences tell me we are no nearer to the required reform than...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...student accommodation crisis. They will tell him this is the worst the crisis has ever been. They will tell him stories about the very many students who still have no accommodation, who are commuting long distances every day, who are paying extortionate money in hotel fees or who are couch-surfing. As their slogan states, "No Keys, No Degrees". It is an unsustainable situation. As it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ..., the consequence will be a small but important proportion of unvaccinated children ending up hospitalised. It is very important to note that up to 10% of those who get the disease could end up with long Covid.

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ..., keep text messages" was not said by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, but by the Tánaiste on 5 November 2020. On 31 August 2021, Deputy Coveney stated: "I do not hold on to text messages for long periods in terms of data on my phone and so on." On 7 September 2021, he also stated that he cleared texts from his phones regularly when business was done, or something like that. At the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2918. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend eligibility to the long-term illness scheme for reimbursement of blood glucose test strips to all women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy; his views on the decision to remove them from the scheme; if he will now reverse that decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39639/21]