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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a wealth tax in order to broaden the tax base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16227/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (2 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a case (details supplied) in which a child with additional needs in Tallaght is unable to get a place in a special school; if she will instruct her Department to take all necessary steps to ensure that more resources to schools in the area to made available to facilitate new places; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (2 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to several complaints regarding employee behaviour and the nutrition provided (details supplied); if her Department will examine these matters and ensure that people in their facilities receive an appropriate level of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15970/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: 259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many parents in the Tallaght area are facing difficulties with securing creche spaces (details supplied); will the Minister instruct her Department to ensure that creche places become available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16002/25]

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

Paul Murphy: You have been on the fence the whole time.

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

Paul Murphy: Why not?

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

Paul Murphy: No.

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

Paul Murphy: Why not?

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

Paul Murphy: Let us have a committee of selection right now.

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

Paul Murphy: Let us do it.

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

Paul Murphy: No. Set up the committees, please.

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

Paul Murphy: Set up the committees, please.

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

Paul Murphy: I am, yeah. Set up the committees, please.

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

Paul Murphy: Do not be telling lies about committees then.

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

Paul Murphy: Tell the truth about the committees.

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.