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Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: What the public could expect from the Green Party is that it takes the side of the environment rather than of major multinational corporations, but that is not what they are getting. Deputy Leddin was arguably more enthusiastic in his cheerleading for more and more data centres in this country than even the Minister of State. He fits very well the role of outrider for a right-wing,...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Indeed, I suspect many climate scientists who are looking with open eyes at what is happening are drawing the conclusion that a system that treats nature as free, one that bases itself on the exploitation of labour and of nature and treats damage to nature, in terms of both the biodiversity and climate crises, as an externality and something it does not have to care about is incompatible with...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry.

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Blah, blah, blah is what we have heard for 30 years from politicians. Greta Thunberg got it correct about the Taoiseach and the UN Security Council, as in regard to much of the debate that has happened today. The gulf between the promises, the rhetoric and the talk and the reality of the action or lack of action grows wider and wider. The Taoiseach was correct when he said at the UN...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will be reviewing the €320,000 maximum market values of the property that can be purchased or self-built in counties Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Louth, Meath and Wicklow, and the €250,000 maximum in the rest of the country, given that housing prices have increased by almost 7% in the past...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Housing for All is a good name for a policy document; I will give the Government that. I believe the name is borrowed from the housing movement. It obviously bears no relationship to the actual content of the policy and the actual strategy of the Government. It would more accurately be named something like "Profit for a Minority", "Profits for the Few" or "Profits for Developers". The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am on this one.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: Gremlins at work. I thank the Ceann Comhairle. A few weeks ago, I participated in a protest of local employment service workers at the Department of Finance and around to the front of the Dáil. They were protesting against the proposal, which the Government is pushing ahead with, for the outsourcing or tendering of their work. They were able to tell stories of how they help the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: I will come back to the case of James O'Connor again. The Taoiseach says that the first port of call, the agencies and so on, should work. I agree. They should work but the point is that it is very clear that they did not work and that there is a problem and, therefore, a need for reform. The central issue is that the massive imbalance of power between a family law judge and a person...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [46803/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [46802/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: When I first raised the issue of the abuse of power by retired judge James O'Connor, the Taoiseach replied to me saying, "It is clear to me that there are avenues for people to deal with the abuse[s] of power". What is precisely demonstrated by this case, however, is that those avenues did not work. The first woman went to the Garda and was told there was nothing to investigate and it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice will next meet. [43765/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with children and youth affairs will next meet. [45091/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality met last; and when it is next due to meet. [45092/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is clearly a repeated pattern of abusive behaviour by James O'Connor. What is the Government going to do to stop this type of thing happening again?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: On 14 July, I raised with the Taoiseach the gross abuse of power by a retired Kerry judge, James O'Connor. I explained how he had abused his position, persistently and completely inappropriately, to pursue a vulnerable woman, who was before his court on a family law matter, for a sexual relationship. During the summer, I was contacted by another woman, who told me a very similar story...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: They are not employed in data centres.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: You do not.