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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Over the past number of months across Europe we have seen repression and criminalisation of pro-Palestinian protestors. In Germany, for example, there have been severe police crackdowns and a banning of Palestine solidarity protests on the wrong basis that they are antisemitic. In Britain, we have seen the potential criminalisation of the carrying of flags and of chants, and there is now a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I had to step out for a while so if I ask something that has been answered already, my apologies. Can anyone tell me what the total cost of this was to an average household over the period that it was in operation, separate from the overcharging?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: It was about €250, or something like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but over how many years? Was it 11 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Okay, so it was somewhere between €250 and €300 over that time. That is effectively a transfer from households to corporations. Does the Minister of State politically agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State agree it was the right decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Corporations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: If people lose their jobs, as a lot of people did during this period, the idea that they would not care about electricity prices seems a bit bizarre. They will have less income so clearly every bill they have will be more impactful and they will be more concerned about it. I am somewhat sceptical about the idea that unemployed people would say not to worry about them and to take their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State accept that what happened here was effectively a form of shock doctrine? Effectively, something was presented as being essential for the moment - responding to a situation of mass unemployment where companies were feeling the heat, etc. - and that we had to do something. Then it was made permanent. The ESB's opening statement refers to this as "enduring", as in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The decision could have been made at the time. Even if we accept the logic of the moment, a decision could have been made that we will do this for three years, four years or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Instead, it was enduring. This is what happens during crises. Measures are put in place which are then enduring unless a political spotlight is placed on them. Does the Minister of State accept that was a mistake?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: To make it an enduring as opposed to a time-limited measure.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that one-year's advance notice should be provided for the location of both the home and overseas National Famine Commemoration Day, as is the norm for days of importance in the national calendar. [2926/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 323. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that both the national and international/twinning National Famine Commemoration Days should be held on the same day, on the third Sunday in May. [2927/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she agrees that there should be a National Famine Commemoration Day on the island of Ireland, to include all of the people across Ireland, North and South. [2928/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to request her Department to offer a solution to the issue outlined (details supplied), ensuring that this person is given access to their weekly allowance entitlement. [2439/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considers the position of a person (details supplied) to be any longer tenable, given that the organisation over which they preside allowed an individual to continue to own and race greyhounds at tracks around this country for up to ten months after the said individual had been banned from owning, keeping or breeding a dog...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has read the preferred results response to a report by a person (details supplied) about the greyhound industry; and whether he considers its findings should result in a change in Government policy on public support for the greyhound industry.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what steps are taken to ensure that the required storage facilities for chicken litter are in fact built after chicken farms are established. [2960/24]

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I welcome this Bill as a long overdue reform of the social welfare system in relation to maintenance. It is nothing short of outrageous that for decades lone mothers have been legally obliged to pursue fathers for maintenance by the Department of Social Protection and are then penalised by the Department when the father does not pay court-approved maintenance. That is because the Department...