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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: Or by the Irish State in the foundation of the State.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: On 19 October last year, President von der Leyen made a speech in the European Parliament where she said: "Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror. And we have to call it as such.” Then when Israel began to do...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Political Community meeting in Granada, Spain. [46436/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: What is the Government doing to ensure that asylum seekers who are here and staying in State provided accommodation are safe? I understand that a new accommodation centre was opened in west Donegal recently. There are people there who have fled horrific wars in Syria and Libya, as well as some Palestinians. They have been subjected to physical threats. There have been threats to attack...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the State apologies issued by Taoisigh in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [43880/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I raise the scandal of historical child sex abuse at St. John Ambulance. It is now more than seven months since Dr. Shannon's utterly damning report. It found that a past culture had facilitated the potential grooming of children and that the organisation had failed to intervene despite the knowledge that boys were at risk of abuse. It concluded that the organisation had failed to act...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: Last week I hosted a meeting in Tallaght for parents of children with disabilities and additional needs. We had campaigners, activists and lawyers present. The room was packed with parents telling heartbreaking stories: stories of being on long waiting lists for assessments of need, stories of waiting more than a year for therapies, stories of waiting for mental health supports, stories of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The UK system is based on a work capability assessment. That is essentially what the system in the Minister's Green Paper is based on. Three tiers flow from that. The Minister said that nobody will have their payments cut but is it not the case that if she implements the proposal outlined in the Green Paper, people could have their payments cut? Those are found to be capable of working...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: -----because it is precisely about the horrendous impact of what I believe is a similar system operating in Britain?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: If the Minister establishes a tiered system based on capacity to work, that will be fine. When it is introduced, she can have the bottom tier, which comprises the most supposedly capable of working, equivalent to the current rates of payment. There is nothing to stop a Minister in a future Government, or another Government, from dropping that because the current Minister has established the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will withdraw the proposals in the Green Paper on disability reform and implement instead a single-tier, non-means-tested disability allowance payment of €350 per week. [46723/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Minister says the proposal in the Green Paper for a three-tier system of disability payments has nothing to do with the UK system. Is it not, however, founded on essentially the same idea as the work capability assessment in Britain, which is a test of capacity to work and then the establishment of tiers? Why should we believe a Government led by a Taoiseach who, when he was in the...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: We have the worst hospital waiting lists in Europe, with more than 1.1 million people on some form of waiting list for healthcare. Incredibly, this is more than one in five of the population. Today, 563 people are on trolleys in hospitals throughout the country, with a record being shamefully broken at University Hospital Limerick when 130 people were waiting for admission there on Monday...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I saw that.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I have spoken about the budget already on a number of occasions. It is very clear the budget works very well for the wealthy in this country and particularly for the big landlords, the corporations who will avail of the research and development tax credit, and the well paid, but it does not work for ordinary people. Today I will focus on a few different groups of ordinary people and how...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The Government does not do that, however. It is not counted as an occupational illness.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is a week until the scheme of temporary special leave with pay for healthcare workers with long Covid is due to expire. This is a scheme for healthcare workers who contracted long Covid as a result of their work on the front line. It is due to expire in a week and there is still no announcement, as far as I know, as to whether it will be extended. These are workers who got a round of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the economic policy unit of his Department. [43879/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [43878/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: The nightmare in Gaza is worsening day after day, hour after hour. There is no water, no food, no fuel for the hospitals, no electricity and no basics. The bombs are raining down at an increasing intensity. In the last 24 hours more than 700 people have been killed, bringing the total to over 5,000, including more than 2,000 children. It is really a sick joke to have 15 trucks entering...