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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: In response to Deputy Whitmore, the Minister made an interesting point, effectively making the argument that a lot of the renewable investment we have would not be happening if it was not for data centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: What percentage of the renewable capacity added to the grid over recent years or projected is energy going to data centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: It does not get us any closer to driving the rest of the economy and society via renewable power, if you add energy usage-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: What I am getting at is that "carbon abatement" means something quite different to the phasing out of fossil fuels. It means we are going to keep using fossil fuels but not to worry because we are going to capture the carbon. That is what it means technically. I think it is important to be clear out this. If the Minister means phase out-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: If you add energy usage and you simply add-----
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she believes the level of social welfare payments is adequate to prevent child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54226/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase all social welfare payments over the poverty line to ensure no one is living in poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54225/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the cost of disability is taken into account in setting the level of social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54227/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (7 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her reasons for not supporting proposal a union (details supplied) for pay-related jobseeker’s benefit to be paid at a maximum of 70 per cent of salary or €550 for nine months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54224/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: I have been contacted by parents of children who attend two different crèches in my constituency, namely, Discoveries Crèche and Montessori School in Firhouse and Chuckleberries Montessori and Crèche in Ballycullen. In both cases, these crèches are either threatening or planning to withdraw from core funding and massively hike their fees. An email from one family stated...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53911/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit in his Department. [53910/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: What is happening in Gaza has been described as "a macabre game of Battleship". There are these tiny squares of territory where Israel says it will bomb a square, the inhabitants have to leave and if they do not leave, they will be killed and it will not be Israel's fault. Palestinians are forced to move from one tiny square to another again and again, in what is clearly an attempt at a new...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: Under the Taoiseach's watch, the housing crisis has got worse and worse. We now have over 13,000 people living in emergency accommodation. There was an incredible story at the weekend in The Irish Timesdetailing how almost 10% of those are living on one street, Gardiner Street, in unsuitable inappropriate accommodation. One good thing that happened under pressure from us was the tenant in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53592/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach's speech at COP28 was a cop-out. He had a golden opportunity for Ireland to take a lead, like when the Dáil declared a climate emergency and banned new fossil fuel exploration. Instead, he made a vague to meaningless call for a planned reduction in fossil fuels. He told a journalist that he supports carbon capture and storage. Environmental activists and scientists know...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: Like what? What is the Taoiseach talking about?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: The Luddites were right.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: The Luddites were correct.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)
Paul Murphy: The Luddites were actually correct. They were workers standing up against an increase in their work practices.