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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Climate change is going to destroy the lives of our children.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: It is going to make----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: -----the earth effectively largely uninhabitable for all but the richest. That is the trajectory we are on. I have a fixation on climate change, absolutely.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: The Minister should have a fixation on climate change.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: You should-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Well, what do I have a fixation on?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: What do I have a fixation on? If it was not climate change, what do I have a fixation on?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: So-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I have a fixation on climate change, and if the Minister's point is that I have a fixation on fossil fuels, yes, I do, because fossil fuels are what is driving the vast majority of climate change. He is proposing, as Minister for the environment, who has responsibility for climate action, to import the dirtiest fossil fuel possible. That is what he is proposing. He is saying now to not...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out, commissioned, or consulted on any research into the likely climate impact of US LNG imported into Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17929/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether a commercial LNG facility along the lines of Shannon LNG is compatible with the State’s legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17927/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I asked the Minister previously if he was aware of the emissions impact that US LNG would have here, which is estimated to be at least 33% worse than coal. He initially ignored the question and then waffled on about it depending on various factors. I am asking again, more precisely, what research his Department has carried out, whether commissioned or consulted, into the likely climate...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I was at a Dáil Business Committee meeting.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish a report by an organisation (details supplied) reviewing its recommendations in relation to the necessity of LNG for energy security; if he will outline the conclusions of that review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17931/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (10 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the total costs of the trade mission to Nigeria and Senegal in September 2023, including the costs of the research and materials produced as part of the mission.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18234/25]
- Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: While there is a lot of rhetoric in this debate about protecting workers, it is necessary to take the veil away from some of that rhetoric from the Government and some Opposition parties. Behind that veil, what they are really talking about is protecting the big US multinationals that have operations here, acting on the basis that big pharma and tech have the same interests as workers. That...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2024 average grade inflation for Leaving Certificate students was 7.5%, in 2025 it will be lowered to 5.5.%, thus the class of 2025 will get approximately 15 to 16 points less than last year, however one in four CAO applicants in 2025 will be using their points from 2024; the way in which she...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister of State accept there is an unfairness here? There are students this year who, with a given set of results, will not achieve a college place they would have achieved last year or the year before or whatever. There is a fundamental unfairness here. I accept that within this artificial scarcity - an effectively fake market being created for the points system - it is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: I am sure the Minister of State has probably been inundated as I have - probably more so than me - with emails from worried leaving cert students, parents and teachers about the unfair disadvantage that this year's students will be put at due to the Government's grade deflation proposals. This is not just a question of next year or the year after. It is something that will have an impact on...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)
Paul Murphy: We were battered off the roads in Rossport.