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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Television Licence Fee (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It sounds like the Minister is interfering now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken against surgeons who performed unnecessary surgeries on children at CHI. [34934/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the action she will take to ensure that financial motives do not compromise children’s healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34935/25]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Another year, another cursory debate and then another voting-through of draconian legislation tonight. I will speak against and vote against the legislation but the Government and the vast majority of the Opposition will vote in favour of curtailing basic civil liberties. The Special Criminal Court was established 53 years ago, supposedly on an emergency basis. The original emergency for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (25 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether an organisation in receipt of State funding (details supplied) should provide an apology to the mother of a girl who died in their care, in circumstances in which as a result of a civil action, the organisation admitted liability. [34674/25]

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I found the “RTÉ Investigates” programme horrifying, obviously, and very difficult to watch. It was clear that the older people were not being treated as human beings, with decency, dignity and respect. Instead, many were being treated simply as a burden – a burden for whom there were not enough gloves or incontinence pads. They were treated like sacks of meat...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the poor state of healthcare for those suffering with allergies in this country. Many parents are forced to spend huge amounts to travel abroad to get their children the treatment they need. I spoke to a woman a few months ago who had to go to America for six weeks. She had to pay €8,000 for treatment. She was also out of work for six weeks and had to pay for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [33925/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Relations (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Labour Employer Economic Forum; and when it will next meet. [32309/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Relations (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The number one issue facing many workers is housing, and the Government has repeatedly claimed both that it will both deliver new social homes and that the planning system is to blame for the lack of delivery so far. This month, however, funding for the delivery of almost 500 social homes has gone up in smoke. Almost 3,500 planned social homes, many with full planning permission, are in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is happening in our airspace.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach will not condemn the US.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last year, the International Court of Justice held that all states are under an obligation to abstain from entering into economic or trade dealings and to prevent trade or investment relations with the occupied territories. There was no mention of an obligation just relating to goods. Instead, it was all trade and investment relations. The Government has in the past few months discovered...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government lay the advice before the committee?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Over the weekend, the world’s biggest military power, under Trump, launched an unprovoked and illegal air assault on Iran. The Taoiseach has repeatedly refused to condemn this assault. I invite him again to condemn it now. We need to have a debate in this House on the US assault on Iran, the situation in the Middle East, and the imperative of defending our neutrality and ending the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their work and coming here today. I missed the opening statement but I read it. When they listed the risks, I was surprised they did not include climate change as a risk. Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: May I just quote here, "AI's risks to society, including bias, privacy erosion, job displacement, misinformation, threats to fairness, safety and human dignity, and impacts on the creative sector and intellectual property". I agree with all of those risks. These risks and immediate and significant, but Dr. Scanlon did not list climate change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: How much more energy does Dr. Scanlon think data centres will use, both globally and in Ireland in the coming ten years as a result of embracing AI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: That has been happening, yet energy usage has still been going up and up. There is a concept called the Jevons paradox, which suggests that as we get more efficient at it, we end up using more and more. It is all very well to tell people not to worry and that the usage will reduce. If we had 100% renewable energy in Ireland now, this would be a different conversation and we could talk...