Results 621-640 of 12,709 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 1664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department holds or has requested data on the socio-economic background of applicants and entrants to graduate entry medicine programmes over the past five years; and if so, to publish a breakdown by income decile or deprivation index to allow analysis of equity in access. [30489/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 1665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a formal mechanism within his Department to monitor socio-economic equity in access to graduate entry medicine programmes; and if not, whether he intends to establish one in light of consistent Higher Education Authority data showing the underrepresentation of disadvantaged students in medical education. [30490/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (10 Jun 2025)
Paul Murphy: 1663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new, targeted measures that have been introduced since the publication of the 2023 Funding the Future – Options Paper on the Cost of Higher Education to directly reduce the financial burden of graduate entry medicine tuition fees for socio-economically disadvantaged students; and if his Department considers general supports such as...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: The Minister of State referred to a realistic yet stringent standard. I presume he will accept that it is deliberately a much less stringent standard than if those water bodies were not redesignated as highly modified water bodies. The reply was in line with what I am saying. This is the Government throwing in the towel in respect of improving the quality of our water bodies. To quote...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: A public consultation on redesignating 433 rivers, streams and lakes as "heavily modified water bodies", closed last week. If the redesignation goes ahead, it will mean a massive increase in the number of these "heavily modified water bodies" from 33 to 466. All the main rivers in Dublin - the Liffey, the Dodder, the Poddle - as well as iconic rivers like the Boyne, the Corrib and the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: It could be amended.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: What is now important is that we implement this Bill as urgently as possible and that we do it right. Doing it right does not mean excluding the majority of our trade with the occupied territories; it means including goods and services. I would like to get into, in some detail, what the Tánaiste says is the legal basis for excluding services is. He said we have a narrow legal pathway...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: There is a significant weight of learned legal opinion which says the Government can do goods and services. The Tánaiste will have seen the letter from 350-plus of Ireland's most prominent lawyers stating that they do not consider there to be any insurmountable legal obstacles preventing the adoption of legislation prohibiting the import of goods and services produced in the unlawful...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: 170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the progress of legislation to ban trade with the occupied territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27406/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: On Saturday week, 7 June, at 2 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance, parents, families and their supporters will hold yet another protest to demand their children with additional needs have the right to education, just like any other child - appropriate education in their community as outlined in the UNCRPD. The protest is part of a growing national movement, equality in education, demanding...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Maguire for the presentation. If this were the legal framework in place in 2003, could the Irish Government, if it wanted to and it had the support of a majority in the Dáil, have sent troops to Iraq?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: No, I am asking, could it have sent troops to Iraq?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: No. Exactly. That is the point.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: I do not want a future government to be able to send Irish troops abroad in a "coalition of the willing", in an imperialist invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan or any other country. I think that is a reason many people will oppose this. Second, to follow up on Deputy Gibney's question, can Ms Maguire confirm that under the current legal framework, even though a UN General Assembly resolution...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: Was Ms Maguire in the Department in 2006 when the legislation was changed?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: Of course. Can she outline the rationale for that 2006 amendment? The arguments now being used to abolish the triple lock were used then with the Defence (Amendment) Act. It explicitly was so that the UN General Assembly could be used because of the veto.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: It was dealing with the veto.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: The point about the principles of the UN Charter is significant. It means Article 2 rather than the UN Charter as a whole. Ms Maguire said earlier it is about peacekeeping. Is she saying that the UN Charter does then not cover anything? We are not bound by the UN Charter, if we are sending troops for "strengthening international security"?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: It is not the principles of international law; it is the principles of the UN Charter.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Paul Murphy: It is just a reference.