Results 221-240 of 12,405 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: The Minister stated the lack of affordable accommodation is a big barrier for students attending tertiary accommodation-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: ----- and it is a priority for him.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yet, he does not know how the new scheme is going to work.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yes, and you signed off on it.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister signed off on it, and agreed to it with collective responsibility.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Can he tell students now that if they are in private rented accommodation they are going to be covered by rental protection and that they are not going to face market increases every time they have a new tenancy?
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that when this legislation is being put together, students need to be protected so they cannot be subject to market resets every time they return to college, for example, the three or four times in the course of going to college?
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: I thought he asked if we were doing yes-no answers.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yes. The Minister is coming before us the day after we have had a major-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: No. I want to interrogate the Minister for higher education who has acknowledged that accommodation is the number one issue. When we spoke about the priorities for this committee, we spoke about this.
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Respectfully, the Chair’s job is not to defend the Government-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: -----or to protect the Minister from questioning. The Minister will not even answer whether it is his position as Minister for higher education, that students should be protected from hikes every time they come back but-----
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: I did ask that. That is the yes or no question the Minister refused to answer. If he wishes to answer it now, I will ask it again. As the Minister for higher education, does the Minister agree that students who are in private rented accommodation should not be subject to rental resets every time they go to college and should have some level of rent protection?
- Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Yes. The Minister can answer. Yes-no answers. Does he agree?
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (11 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 111. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases brought to the District Court by workers seeking enforcement of a Workplace Relations Commission's awards, under Section 43 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015, in the past five years; and whether he has considered granting enforcement powers to the WRC in order to spare workers from having to take further legal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: That is why it is invisible. It does not affect most people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: For a migrant it is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: These are EU migrants who are legally present in the North and cannot travel to the South. That is the point I am making.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Not in that part of my question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: No, they cannot. That is why it is a hard border.