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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.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: They were in favour of technology, but for the people.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Go on. Danny Healy-Rae, with his plant hire business, makes hundreds of thousands of euro from-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: -----from Kerry County Council. Deputy McGrath is making money from Tipperary County Council.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: These are the people. Corrupt politicians like Michael Lowry, happy to-----

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is a matter of public record.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is a disgrace.

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: Two weeks ago we had riots, incited by the far right, on our streets. Now we have migrants in our city who are afraid to go out for fear that they will be targeted by the far right. What has been the response of the Rural Independent Group? During the original debate and then during the debate yesterday, all of them were at pains to emphasise that the riots that took place were nothing to...