Results 21-40 of 385 for long speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...sufficient increase. If we are getting twice as many applications as are being dealt with at present, increasing the funding by 25% will not get on top of it and we will continue to have extremely long waiting lists.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...120,000 homes per year will not be achieved on the basis of the warmer homes scheme and it will certainly not be achieved in light of the extremely slow progress of the councils. It is a disgrace how long people in council housing have to wait. Instead, the Minister is simply hoping to achieve what needs to happen on the basis of incentivising the wealthier households that can afford the...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...requirements sought.", and (ii) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7A): "(7B) The Board shall be entitled to refuse connection on the grounds of the expected emissions profile, long term carbon emissions or inconsistency with the carbon budget programme or sectoral emissions ceilings as per sections 6A and 6C of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...carbon budget-aligned, economical and efficient and shall perform its functions in a manner consistent with— (i) the most recent approved climate action plan, (ii) the most recent approved national long term climate action strategy, (iii) the most recent approved national adaptation framework and approved sectoral adaptation plans, (iv) the furtherance of the national climate...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...amended), and means the State’s obligation to reduce the extent of further global warming, to pursue and achieve, by no later than the end of the year 2050, the transition to a climate resilient, biodiversity rich, environmentally sustainable and climate neutral economy; ‘national long term climate action strategy’ has the meaning assigned to it in section 4 of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...Biden Administration has proposed an extra €14.5 billion. Joe Biden recently told a fundraiser, "We’re not going to do a damn thing other than to protect Israel. Not a single thing.” As long as Joe Biden supports this genocide, the Taoiseach should not go to the White House on St. Patrick's Day to give him a bowl of shamrock. Instead, we should send a signal around...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: My question is simple. Will long Covid be included in the terms of reference of the Covid inquiry? It is clearly important that if we are to come to a balanced assessment of mistakes that were made and so on, we do not look just at the short term but also at the long-term implications for hundreds of thousands of people, such as illness, isolation and inability to work. In that regard, the...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I welcome this Bill as a long overdue reform of the social welfare system in relation to maintenance. It is nothing short of outrageous that for decades lone mothers have been legally obliged to pursue fathers for maintenance by the Department of Social Protection and are then penalised by the Department when the father does not pay court-approved maintenance. That is because the Department...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...underpaid labour, overwhelmingly done by women. In People Before Profit we are in favour of the removal of the backward women in the home clause. It is a disgrace that it has stayed there for so long and it is a testament to how cowardly and conservative all of our Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael-led Governments have been. This is a country that voted for marriage equality and repeal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will add motor neuron (covering various types) and Kennedy's disease to the list of conditions/ illnesses that qualify for the long-term illness medical card; if not the reason; the steps that can be taken to add these conditions to the card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1753/24]

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...phrase "zero and low carbon fuels" means continuing to use fossil fuels on the pretence that they are low carbon. Of course, there is no definition in the text of what "low-carbon" means. Presumably even coal will count as being low carbon as long as it is abated with technologies that do not exist. What does "around mid-century" mean? Does it mean 2050, 2055 or 2060? What sort of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: How long do we have?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...an historical problem. In the first half of 2023, there were nearly 4,000 cases of suspected child physical or sexual abuse. CARI is a national organisation providing, for example, outside Dublin long-term therapeutic supports – it is the only one doing so – to children aged three to 18 affected by child sexual abuse and their families. It desperately needs this funding....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...for nine or ten hours per week because no special needs assistant, SNA, has been allocated to him. Rocco is suspected of having ADHD or ASD or both but there is no official diagnosis. He is on a long waiting list for an assessment of needs. The principal of his school applied for a minimum of four SNAs and got one. Rocco alone needs a full-time SNA, but the school got one for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: The State and the Government are failing children with additional needs very badly. They are failing those on the long waiting lists for an assessment of needs and for therapies and those who are seeking to access education. I want to raise one particular case, that of a young man called Tadhg who is 11 years old. He is in sixth class in primary school and is looking forward to going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...that, as chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, this is information she surely must have. I do not see how she can come before us and say we should fire ahead and have more data centres, so long as we have corporate power purchase agreements and so on, without knowing how much energy is spent on useful things.

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...in Ukraine, including the issuing of an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes in March this year. That is despite the fact that the situation in Ukraine was only referred to the ICC in March 2022, long after the investigation into Palestine had supposedly already started. Look at the contrast between the speed of 38 states, including Ireland, referring the situation in Ukraine to the...

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

Paul Murphy: ...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 waiting for respite and stories of waiting...

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...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...substantial rise in the risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, for at least a year after Covid infection. For many people, this can manifest as higher blood pressure, a long-term silent killer that can add to excess mortality in later years. Another explanation is delayed access to healthcare such as delayed cancer diagnoses during the pandemic leading to...