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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: In the most recent budget the Minister increased social welfare rates by a measly 2.5%. Over the past year we have seen inflation at 7% or more. Does the Minister intend to immediately increase social welfare rates to at least keep pace with the spiralling cost of living so that those on low fixed incomes are not compelled to fall deeper and deeper into poverty?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: The Government likes to talk a lot about the cost of living being caused by factors outside its control but let us look at the factors that are in the Government's control. Social protection is set at poverty levels. That was the case before the huge inflation we are seeing but it is getting worse. The crumbs being offered to people are not good enough. When their bills are soaring by...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: I will give the Minister some other statistics from the same report. After paying their rent, one in two people living in local authority housing is at risk of poverty. It is even worse for those reliant on HAP or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, of whom 59% are at risk of poverty after paying their rent. More than one in ten of the population is living in enforced deprivation. Almost...
- National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: Breathtaking cynicism has characterised the Government's ramming through of this proposal. The height of that breathtaking cynicism will be seen this evening when the Government votes in favour of a motion that calls on it to secure full public ownership of the site and new building on the very same day that it has done the very opposite. It is a disgusting level of cynicism. Government...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: But are they going to be extended on this occasion?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: Exactly.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: But are they going to be extended on this occasion?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: Thousands of workers in our bars and restaurants are being told to leave the country by the end of the month as the Department of Justice is refusing to give a simple extension until September for those on stamp 2 visas. This means thousands of people will have to leave their accommodation and jobs for the summer. When they return next September they will have to try to find new apartments...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and policing reform division of his Department. [24527/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [24526/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide and update on the national risk assessment. [24777/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: Public transport fares have recently been reduced for the first time since the Second World War. As a consequence, we have seen an increase in passenger numbers which is very welcome. Imagine what moving to free, fast and frequent public transport could do. We know that cutting fares saves people's money, reduces congestion and cuts CO2emissions. More than 100 cities and towns across the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: The establishment parties.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: Like the Taoiseach is elected.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: It has. Not now-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: This is whataboutery.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Finland and Estonia. [20610/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: The Government of Finland, along with the Government of Sweden, has just announced its intention to ditch its neutrality and apply to join NATO. The latter is a US-led military alliance that is responsible for decades of brutal occupation in Afghanistan and horrendous atrocities in the Middle East. During the war in Kosovo, it bombed hospitals, prisons, embassies and many people's homes....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: If he had a free hand, I am of the view that the Taoiseach would like to sign Ireland up to NATO. However, he knows that he does not have a free hand so instead he wants to chip away bit by bit at what is left of our neutrality. Will he commit to giving people a referendum to enshrine neutrality in the Constitution in order to stop it from being a policy matter that can be changed?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)
Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach cannot keep saying it as if it makes it that way.