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Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Yes.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I offer huge apologies. I am running in and out because I am at two committees at the same time. I mentioned something about this issue last week. I am learning a lot about all this, and a lot of businesses and companies want to do the right thing when it comes to human rights but at the same time, as a business owner myself in the SME sector, we really do not need any more stuff on our...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Yes, as part of that mapping and their due diligence. To put it in perspective, representatives of IBEC, when they were here last week, spoke about how this will really impact all types of businesses. I asked how many larger companies it would impact initially. I was told it was approximately 70 but that smaller companies that deal with these larger ones will, in time, have to liaise with...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Sorry, maybe I have misunderstood this. Smaller businesses that are dealing with large businesses that have to do this will not have to supply any information. Reading this, I understood they did under the CSDDD.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: There is nothing to worry about at all then.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Will I be able to get an answer? I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I wish to raise the issue of apprenticeships in the furniture industry. Some say that the great wind of 1839 was the start of the furniture industry in Navan, County Meath. The big wind occurred on the afternoon of 6 January and swept across Europe, causing major damage and resulting in several hundred deaths....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I raise the issue of being able to watch our beautiful sport of GAA either on streaming devices or television. At the weekend, we saw a titanic victory for Meath, who became the first team since Tyrone in 2008 to beat Kerry and Dublin in the same All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. It was a fantastic win and great for our county - come on the Royals - but unless you went to Tullamore,...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I have learned so much this afternoon. I am so glad I am one of the last to speak because a lot of what I was going to ask has been covered. I thank the witnesses for explaining this. I grew up in the 1970s in a town heavily involved in manufacturing furniture. I went in and out of factories, one of which my parents owned, seeing the fabulous women, the sowing machines and the men at the...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I invite Mr. Fitzpatrick to answer first.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Is there no timeframe?

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Time is of the essence on one side.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Yes, of the initial phase.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: It is more about informing consumers and ensuring they know. If it starts at the 70 businesses that were mentioned and it gets down to the companies that have 500 employees, how many does it bring in after four years? How many companies will be affected?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: As discussed during the Commencement debate just a few minutes ago, Wellman International Ireland filed a petition to place its operation in Mullagh into examinership. I thank the Minister of State, Niamh Smyth. She came across as very passionate about the situation there, but it would be remiss of me not to raise it again, being from County Meath, because it obviously affects counties...

Seanad: Breast Cancer Services: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: Self-examination is key. If anyone takes anything from my speech today, I plead with them to hear the words "self-examination". The Minister is very passionate about health. I welcome the opportunity to speak to her today about BreastCheck and breast cancer. As we are all aware, breast cancer is the commonest invasive cancer among women. It touches the lives of thousands of individuals...

Seanad: Insurance Reform: Motion (10 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I move: That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges: - the publication, in 2020, of an Action Plan For Insurance Reform; - that there have been four Action Plan Implementation Reports to date; - the establishment of the Office to Promote Competition in the Insurance Market; - the introduction of new personal injuries guidelines in April 2021, which set reduced levels for personal injury...

Seanad: Insurance Reform: Motion (10 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: The increase in the personal injury guidelines, as recommended by the Judicial Council, of 16.7% is excessive. As I was preparing for this over the past couple of days, I reflected on the first time I spoke about horrendous insurance difficulties facing businesses, which was on 24 January 2019. There I was, sitting in a ball pool in my soft-play centre, full of hope and enthusiasm that we...

Seanad: Insurance Reform: Motion (10 Jun 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I thank the Minister of State for everything he highlighted. I really appreciate it. Since 2020, we have put a great deal of work into everything relating to insurance reform. One of the first things was the establishment of a Cabinet subcommittee. I do not think we had seen anything like that over the previous 15 years, so it was important. I would like the subcommittee to meet...

Seanad: Economic Competitiveness: Statements (28 May 2025)

Linda Nelson Murray: I thank the Minister for coming to the Seanad today. It is his first time here and it is great to see him. I find him incredibly approachable and ready to listen and engage. Let us have a good conversation on competitiveness today. Ireland is currently experiencing its highest employment levels on record. The number of people employed reached approximately 2.8 million in the first...