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Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: A very significant crisis faces ordinary people in regard to energy prices and the Government cannot say it has not been warned. We have warned it and it has been repeatedly raised in the media, yet the Government has done effectively nothing for anybody, except something completely inadequate for those who receive fuel allowance. For everybody else, the Government is saying, "Well, suck it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Actions speak louder than words. Unfortunately, the actions of the Government show that it is not taking this issue seriously. In the budget a month ago, the entire spend allocated for measures against crack cocaine usage throughout the entire country was €500,000. It is nowhere near adequate. Let me spell out what an extra €1 million in funding for the Tallaght Drug and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am going to assume that the Minister of State heard about and read some of the extensive coverage over the past couple of days regarding the tsunami of crack cocaine use in Tallaght. I hope she also read the report by the TDATF or that the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, has. The bottom line is that this is an appeal for help from those on the front line. The report in question...

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is leading the way for the pharmaceutical companies. It is killing people. It is disgraceful.

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United Nations in New York. [48309/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I see the Minister, Deputy Ryan, had an article in The Irish Timeslast weekend in which he approvingly quoted Greta Thunberg saying, "No more blah, blah, blah." It is supremely ironic. How else can the words and actions of this Government on climate be described but as "more blah, blah, blah"? To take the example of transport, last week the Government announced a target of up to a 50%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government includes a commitment to convene a citizens' assembly on drug use. I am sure the Taoiseach saw some of the harrowing coverage yesterday of what has been described as an epidemic of crack cocaine use in Tallaght. People’s lives and communities are being destroyed, yet the total figure allocated to address crack cocaine use in budget 2022 across the entire...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [54395/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 46. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [50790/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that those who avail of the new digital gaming relief are subject to ensuring quality employment and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54403/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if eight hares were killed on the first day of a coursing meeting by a club (details supplied) on 15 October 2021; the results of any post-mortems carried out on these hares; if this coursing meeting was called off on day one; and if the club was accommodated by another club to run its various stakes on the following weekend...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hare Coursing (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the health of all the hares in captivity at a club (details supplied); and if these hares were released into the wild after the meeting on 15 October 2021 was called off. [53983/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he will take to increase use of bus and rail public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53678/21]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will focus my remarks on COP26 and the coup in Sudan. The Taoiseach’s doublespeak on methane is precisely the kind of blah, blah, blah, that Greta Thunberg was warning about. Yesterday he signed up to a global target of 30% reductions in methane by 2030, the absolute minimum necessary, and today he says that Ireland will not even try to meet that target, by setting a 10% target...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Capitalism is responsible for the climate crisis - sure. The Taoiseach thinks capitalism is not responsible. That is fine.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: Come on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [53180/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: The UN emissions gap report gives lie to the empty rhetoric of world leaders in Glasgow. In analysing the new nationally determined contributions, it outlines that what has been agreed thus far by various states would mean reducing carbon emissions by only 7.5% by 2030, as opposed to the 55% level that is agreed to be needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C. We are on a trajectory to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will be very brief. In September, the ban on large trawlers fishing within Ireland's inshore waters was lifted following a Court of Appeal judgment. These trawlers are extremely damaging to our coastal environments and fish habitats. They damage our marine biodiversity. They are also damaging to the interests of small fishers. They do not practise a sustainable form of fishing and they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: He would need an hour.