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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to give my time to expand on the point of order I raised earlier. I have studied the Salient Rulings of the Chair and I believe the Taoiseach was clearly out of order in describing Deputies Boyd Barrett and Barry and me as puppets of Putin. Salient Ruling 417 states, "Member may not say that another Member is taking orders or instructions from outside interests or is representing or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: No, we did not-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the US congressional delegation. [59257/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach previously told me the Government has a health-led approach to tackling drug addiction. There will be a test of whether the Government means that. Deputy Gino Kenny has brought forward a Bill to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of cannabis. All personal drug use should be treated as a harm reduction matter and not a criminal one. This Bill is a necessary step,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [59247/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I raise the issue of adult education tutors who are denied a decent contract and therefore, incredibly, have to sign on for social welfare payments during the summer. They are uncertain about their hours and annual income. There is pay inequality for post-2011 entrants, no opportunity for progression and no pay rise after years of service. This has long been an issue, starting with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I have a point of order.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday during Taoiseach's Questions, the Taoiseach said that People Before Profit-Solidarity Deputies were "puppets" for Putin's regime. I believe this to be an abuse of privilege and disorderly. It is a very serious allegation for a Taoiseach to make about Opposition Members of Parliament that they are agents of a foreign state, particularly a state like Russia.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: I am asking for the remark to be withdrawn in light of People Before Profit's very consistent record of opposition to Putin, the fact it is our co-thinkers who are in prison in Russia for opposing Putin's invasion of Ukraine and, while Bertie Ahern was shaking hands with Putin-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: -----we were opposing the invasion of Chechnya.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: So the Taoiseach is not withdrawing that Opposition Members of Parliament are agents of a foreign power? That is incredibly authoritarian.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is genuinely quite chilling that the Taoiseach feels able to discount what we say and attempt to smear us by saying we are agents for Putin with no evidence whatsoever.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is very serious. It is a real diminishing of democratic rights.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is accusing Opposition Deputies-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: -----because they do not go along with the Taoiseach's agenda of militarisation, of being agents of Putin.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is quite shameful.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the national risk assessment. [59246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he followed the procedure set out in section 105 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in appointing a new interim chairperson of An Bord Pleanála; and, if not, the reason he felt able to ignore that requirement. [59589/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the plan for Ireland's participation in the European Union Assistance Mission Ukraine; and if he can provide a guarantee that Irish soldiers will only be involved in training related to de-mining and that they will not be involved in other aspects of the military training which will be taking place. [59587/22]