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Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Will you tell the truth about committees, Darragh?

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: What we have heard from the Government benches is an incredibly narrow view of what democracy means. You could paraphrase the Chief Whip with "We won, you lost, we can do whatever we want.". I am sorry but that is not democracy. Where is the space in that for the rights of minorities? Where is the space in that for the rights of opposition?

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: The rules that protect those rights were deliberately, consciously and repeatedly broken by the Ceann Comhairle last week. It is her job to protect those rules and to ensure they are abided by but instead she broke them one after the other. There was the unprecedented situation of a vote being called on the Order of Business and no vote being granted. It was an incredible, unprecedented...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: This is the Government's motion.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, we are not. It is more like 70 minutes.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Get on with it.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is that how democracy works?

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is that all there is to democracy? Just majority rules? No minority rights whatsoever?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: If the Taoiseach had kept his election promises, he would not be asked these questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 17. To ask the Taoiseach how he intends to increase the coordination role of his Department in national security. [12377/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: These mothers were protesting from Mother's Day. They were protesting in support of the Occupied Territories Bill, which the Taoiseach promised would be passed during the election. They were protesting to stop weapons going through Irish airspace, which continues and is increasing and which the Taoiseach has refused to do anything about. I hope he will support the arms embargo Bill coming...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: One of the things that Storm Éowyn exposed was the lack of resilience in our monocultural forestry model. Unfortunately, this is set to get worse due to Coillte's recent decision to silently scrap Coillte Nature, its not-for-profit wing that is supposed to be dedicated to the restoration, regeneration and rehabilitation of nature across Ireland. In Orwellian fashion, Coillte claims...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he has had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [15509/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, this is not our remedy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is quite incredible that the Taoiseach is blaming a school, which was put in a position by his Government and by the Department of Education, for being in a situation such that the management felt there was no alternative but to say the school will close its doors. It is incredible. The Taoiseach is victim-blaming and gaslighting these principals across the country who likely do not want...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Two weeks ago, I raised the crisis facing Sacred Heart Junior National School in Killinarden with the Taoiseach. It was forced to write to the Department of Education saying it would close its doors because it could not pay the bills. It first flagged a shortfall of €26,000 last October. The crisis worsened. The school was in touch with the Department repeatedly but no extra...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: Workers' rights. Environmental legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the implications for a pupil who is granted an exemption from Irish in primary school, including what they should be doing during Irish class. [15291/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sufficient supports in school are being provided for a pupil (details supplied) with dyslexia. [15292/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services (1 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the fact that at present there is no dedicated pathway for migrants with disabilities within Ireland’s housing system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15855/25]