Results 321-340 of 12,405 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: A public consultation on redesignating 433 rivers, streams and lakes as "heavily modified water bodies", closed last week. If the redesignation goes ahead, it will mean a massive increase in the number of these "heavily modified water bodies" from 33 to 466. All the main rivers in Dublin - the Liffey, the Dodder, the Poddle - as well as iconic rivers like the Boyne, the Corrib and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It could be amended.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: What is now important is that we implement this Bill as urgently as possible and that we do it right. Doing it right does not mean excluding the majority of our trade with the occupied territories; it means including goods and services. I would like to get into, in some detail, what the Tánaiste says is the legal basis for excluding services is. He said we have a narrow legal pathway...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: There is a significant weight of learned legal opinion which says the Government can do goods and services. The Tánaiste will have seen the letter from 350-plus of Ireland's most prominent lawyers stating that they do not consider there to be any insurmountable legal obstacles preventing the adoption of legislation prohibiting the import of goods and services produced in the unlawful...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the progress of legislation to ban trade with the occupied territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27406/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: On Saturday week, 7 June, at 2 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance, parents, families and their supporters will hold yet another protest to demand their children with additional needs have the right to education, just like any other child - appropriate education in their community as outlined in the UNCRPD. The protest is part of a growing national movement, equality in education, demanding...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Maguire for the presentation. If this were the legal framework in place in 2003, could the Irish Government, if it wanted to and it had the support of a majority in the Dáil, have sent troops to Iraq?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, I am asking, could it have sent troops to Iraq?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: No. Exactly. That is the point.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I do not want a future government to be able to send Irish troops abroad in a "coalition of the willing", in an imperialist invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan or any other country. I think that is a reason many people will oppose this. Second, to follow up on Deputy Gibney's question, can Ms Maguire confirm that under the current legal framework, even though a UN General Assembly resolution...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Was Ms Maguire in the Department in 2006 when the legislation was changed?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Of course. Can she outline the rationale for that 2006 amendment? The arguments now being used to abolish the triple lock were used then with the Defence (Amendment) Act. It explicitly was so that the UN General Assembly could be used because of the veto.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was dealing with the veto.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: The point about the principles of the UN Charter is significant. It means Article 2 rather than the UN Charter as a whole. Ms Maguire said earlier it is about peacekeeping. Is she saying that the UN Charter does then not cover anything? We are not bound by the UN Charter, if we are sending troops for "strengthening international security"?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is not the principles of international law; it is the principles of the UN Charter.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is just a reference.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Ms Maguire said earlier it is about peacekeeping. This provides for sending troops abroad not on peacekeeping missions but on international security missions.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel, he will direct the Central Bank to stop facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27946/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether he has a duty under the Genocide Convention to stop the Central Bank from facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (29 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether Israeli war bonds, whose sale is facilitated by the Central Bank, are financing the genocide in Gaza; his further views on whether the Central Bank and his Department are complicit in genocide as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27949/25]