Results 221-240 of 12,400 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: 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.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on new shared island projects. [29327/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: A shared island should not have an invisible hard border for non-EU migrants, but that is the case currently. I have raised this multiple times. In the past a somewhat sympathetic hearing was given to the likes of the North West Migrants Forum. In this atmosphere of performative cruelty by the Government on migration, I fear it will not make any moves on this. I would be interested to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: Two weeks ago, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of unnecessary surgeries on children said to have hip dysplasia and unnecessary osteotomies. I questioned why the surgeons responsible had not been suspended or at the very least suspended from carrying out osteotomies. Since then, I have learned it is even worse than I feared. There was a meeting last Tuesday to decide on surgical...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [29326/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach referenced the galloping militarisation happening at EU level. It underlines the importance of Ireland's neutrality in that context and the importance of the struggle to defend that neutrality. Significant numbers will be on the streets this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance to do so. What we have heard about the triple lock has confirmed the basic point the...