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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Minister agree that there be a referendum and that the people get to decide on the question of neutrality instead of having a false mature public debate which does not actually allow the people to participate? Will the Minister accept that if Ireland is going to join a rapid reaction force which is, in effect, a super-sized European battle group comprising 5,000 soldiers, there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Will the Government give the people a referendum before joining the rapid reaction force?

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry. I welcome the Bill and the establishment of the authority as a late and small step towards tackling the reality of Ireland as being in the Wild West when it comes to fertility care. The problem is that the Bill does not do anything in terms of the public provision of fertility care, in particular IVF, and, therefore, does not really address the key...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. I thank Ms Diana O'Dwyer and Mr. Des Hennelly in People Before Profit for their work on the Bill as well as the Bills Office. This is a Bill which, if passed, would mean we would...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The Government abolished NPHET.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate that the Minister of State has the response from the Department and is reading it out, but it is just the same response that we got in October 2021 basically, which is just a sticking to the rigid bureaucratic rules of “these are the numbers, etc.” It is not taking into account the reason that they fell short was because of the pandemic. The school staff then took...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Last October, the Holy Spirit junior school in Greenhills was told it would lose a teaching post and would have to go from having four junior infant classes to three. This was because a number of parents who had planned to start their children in junior infants in September decided to keep them back a year in light of the scale of the Covid pandemic at the time and the negative impact it had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) has had an infant class teaching post removed despite having a classroom available and a large waiting list of children hoping to attend; and if she will take steps to ensure this is corrected. [15395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the once-off reductions in new enrolments in junior infants in some schools in 2021 due to Covid is now resulting in a reduction in teaching posts for the coming 2022-2023 school year despite a recovery in the numbers seeking enrolment, potentially leading to classrooms being left empty while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. To quote Mr. Godfrey in his opening statement, he said "Most businesses ... are not in a dominant position, and their pricing decisions are constrained by the need to compete rather than by any legal obligation." In other words, the pricing decisions of most businesses are not constrained by any laws apart from the law not to operate as a cartel....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: That includes war profiteering. It includes the examples of Energia with three price increases in the first six months of last year, a 51% increase in profits; the ESB had big price increases and a 27% increase in profits; Bord Gáis Energy, owned by Centrica, doubled its profits last year set against a 39% increase in the cost of gas coming up shortly. All of that is perfectly legal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: I accept that. It is not Mr. Godfrey’s fault; it is his job to enforce the law and the law is problematic in terms of not actually protecting people at all. Mr. Godfrey said people are free to make a choice but is there really a choice if, let us say I am a consumer and I am driving around trying to find petrol but petrol everywhere is extremely expensive? What choice do I really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (23 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: Even the word "unscrupulous" involves a certain moral consideration. While I agree that price-fixing and so on are unscrupulous, I would argue that taking advantage of a war situation to increase profits is also unscrupulous. It is not illegal. It is perfectly legal within the framework of the capitalist market as we currently have it. However, I also think that is unscrupulous behaviour....

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: There is a lot of mysticism that goes on when talking about the increase in energy prices, which basically presents laws of a private, for-profit market as if they are laws of nature. It is as if these prices are going up by themselves, and that it is a natural disaster about which nothing can be done. It removes what is actually going on, which is the profiteering that has already been...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: The actions of P&O Ferries last week highlighted the brutality of capitalism, with 800 workers sacked by video call, special handcuff trained security sent in to clear them off the ships and the company hiring new workers on wages as low as $2.38 per hour. This is part of a wider race to the bottom. The RMT union has reported that workers on the Dublin-Liverpool route were on a basic...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of roles that have been filled in the Work Placement Experience Programme; the cost of the scheme to the Exchequer since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7060/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow those who have a pending status for their GNIB card to renew their driver licence. [13845/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group (details supplied) is calling on the National Transport Authority to act on behalf of its industry and introduce a temporary stopgap of one euro to all metered fares during an extremely difficult period for all taxi operators given the increase in fuel costs; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that most electric vehicles come with tinted glass in the rear as standard given that the cost to change these windows is around €800 plus; if the clear glass windows are available if he will discuss with the National Transport Authority the idea of allowing tinted rear glass in taxis;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the working group on defective homes will be completed by the end of March 2022 as previously advised; if his attention has been drawn to the importance of the working group's report meeting this timeline in order that there is sufficient time for the report's recommendations to be considered by Government and acted upon...