Results 4,121-4,140 of 11,867 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Paul Murphy: They are the biggest higher energy users.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Paul Murphy: Is a scheme coming for higher energy users?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Paul Murphy: Will there be a scheme by the end of the year? We are nearly at the end of the year.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Paul Murphy: I am running out of time.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: I will quote from the first recommendation in the committee's report. It states: The Committee has not seen sufficient evidence to support the proposed introduction of a Seasonal Employment Permit, and it is also concerned about the lack of detail in the proposal. [...] The protections and provisions under the existing General Employment Permit scheme must not be diminished, and...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: We will not persuade the Minister of State and he will not persuade us. The protections will not change the essence of the thing which is that a particular employee can bring in someone for a few months. They are absolutely tied to that employer. They cannot go elsewhere and at the end they must leave. Inherently that is rife for exploitation, particularly when we consider the industries...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: I accept that the majority will not be a problem. It does not have to be 100%-----
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: The rationale for this is very simple. It is to shift more power to the worker as opposed to the employer. It gives workers mobility and the ability to walk away from a bad exploitative employer and move somewhere else without all of the barriers that currently exist. It would reward good employers because it would mean people would stay with them as a consequence of them being good...
- Toll Charge Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: The proposed increase in tolls is just the latest part of a highway robbery that is being carried out by the private operators in this country. This highway robbery is facilitated by the Government and by Fianna Fáil, historically, which developed this whole notion of public private partnerships, PPP. The robbery continues apace. The Government indicated it is going to pay to put off...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: The strategy refers to the need for citizen-focused communication. In that context I raise the case of Frank Mulcahy. As the Taoiseach will know, he was the CEO of Irish Small and Medium Employers and a victim of an incredible campaign to blacken his name by people wrongly suggesting that he was involved in fraud. The Taoiseach was the Minister in the relevant Department at the time. He...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Stop bluffing and answer the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach answer the question? Will the Taoiseach give a guarantee that they were just doing de-mining? Can he give a guarantee? Why can the Taoiseach not give a guarantee?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach give a guarantee about de-mining? Or is it going to be the same as with the Minister, Deputy Coveney? Please answer the question about de-mining.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: He said he was going to answer. He said it just two minutes ago.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach guarantee they were just doing de-mining training?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is deliberately holding onto the question and he avoided all of them, and instead we got just bluff and nonsense.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [57885/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Ukraine will next meet. [57886/22]