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Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: One of the women reported harassment to the gardaí. She was told that it was a case of boy meets girl and that there was nothing to investigate. We know that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, was of little use, and so far the Taoiseach has also been of no help. This pattern of State harassment and State violence against women, and minimising and ignoring it, is...

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: There are seven and a half minutes for me and two and a half for Deputy Barry.

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The feminist performance pieceA Rapist in your Pathwas first performed in Chile in November 2019. It quickly went viral because it resonated with women in particular, with street performances by activists around the world, including in Ireland. The central point of the piece is to highlight the complicity of state in violence against women. Many here today might think that that has little...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: There is a new report from the UN Environment Programme out today and it concludes that fossil fuel production planned by the world's governments vastly exceeds the limit needed to keep the rise in global heating to 1.5°C. In fact, it finds that it is at 110% extra so we would be heading for more than a 3°C rise. In a way, that encapsulates the new form of climate denialism which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: In this country.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The politically powerful. Those with the ear of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is Larry Goodman, the beef barons, Greencore.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is because I am not talking about ordinary farmers. That is why.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Do we need a reduction in the national herd?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: We are exporting milk powder.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [47966/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I raise the case of Nadim Hussain, who is on his seventh day of hunger strike. He is living in Cork, where the Taoiseach comes from, and is on hunger strike because the International Protection Appeals Tribunal has affirmed a recommendation of the international protection officer that he should be refused a declaration as a refugee, which has the consequence of threatening him with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government stopped contact tracing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: That is because the Government stopped contact tracing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I agree.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: Is the Taoiseach saying that the public health advice is not to have filtration systems?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met and will next meet. [47965/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met and will next meet. [47964/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Government policy of hear no evil, see no evil in the schools is now unfortunately coming to fruition. I want pay tribute to Ms Vicky Barron, the principal of CBS Primary School in Wexford town. The school made the decision to close because more than 10% of their pupils had Covid-19. She appropriately made the point on the radio that the HSE says this is not a school outbreak. What is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the retired County Kerry judge, James O'Connor, about whom I have previously raised shocking cases of abuse of power and an example of institutional sexism. When I last raised the cases with the Taoiseach, he said, "I am very concerned about it and about what I have read today in the articles the Deputy mentioned. I will give further consideration to this...