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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Minister said the vast majority.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to abolish the regressive TV licence model; if he will instead consider taxing large multimedia corporations to fund public service broadcasters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28772/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: This is a regressive tax no matter how it is looked at. The poorest eligible household in the country pays €160 and the richest household in the country pays €160. It is a regressive, unjust tax that hundreds of thousands of people are refusing to pay, a number that has increased in the context of the outrage at what was happening at the very top of RTÉ, with massive pay...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has analysed the impact abolishing fares would have on speeding up bus journey times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28462/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason public transport fares have been increased during a climate and cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28461/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned that carbon emissions from transport increased last year; and the measures he intends to take to address this. [28463/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has considered whether a ban on fossil fuel advertising could play a role in reducing demand for fossil fuels and fossil-fuelled vehicles, which, according to the latest annual review of transport from the Climate Change Advisory Council, is still increasing. [28465/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to ensure “increased ambition for public transport capital investment”, as recommended by the Climate Change Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28464/24]
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: You supported von der Leyen.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: Developing underwater assets.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I do not believe in it.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I do not believe we should participate in European militarisation.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: A region-----
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: Go back and read the debate from 2006.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I wanted a citizens' assembly like you wanted. You changed your mind.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am sharing time. What we see here is an exercise in boiling the frog of neutrality, that is, just turning up the temperature, bit by bit, and hoping the people will not notice; removing any real content from the word "neutrality" while keeping simply the word; getting rid of the triple lock, which, as the Tánaiste said himself, is at the core of our neutrality; and signing up for more...
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: I will tell the Tánaiste why it is misinformation. I quoted this previously to him and he did not respond.
- Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: Section 1 of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006 clearly refers, in the context of the triple lock, to "an international force or body established, mandated, authorised, endorsed, supported, approved or otherwise sanctioned by a resolution of the Security Council or the General Assembly of the United Nations". It is simply not true that we have any veto. A regional peacekeeping force that was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [28202/24]