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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: To put it bluntly, the Government is failing to listen or to address the needs on the required scale. I agree that, in addition to increasing funding, it is about listening to affected communities about what is really required and what works. Funding is part of the solution. On the staffing gap, there are approximately 10,000 mental health whole-time equivalents, but A Vision for Change...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: This matter was originally scheduled to be taken last week to coincide with World Mental Health Day but it is appropriate that we discuss it today in light of the incredible and tragic situation of people who have lost loved ones to suicide being forced to protest outside the Dáil. They carried placards reading "She died waiting" and "24-7 Mental Healthcare Access Now", in a clear...

Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hevrin Khalaf, one of nine civilians tortured and summarily executed by Turkish-based forces on Saturday, was 35 years old. Earlier in the week, the Turkish military bombed a civilian aid convoy in Ras al-Ain, killing more than 20 people. These are only some of the tortures, mass executions and indiscriminate military attacks on civilian targets that make up Turkey's war of terror and...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Ireland is a low-wage, high-profit economy in which 30% of all workers are low paid and in which corporate profits have doubled in the past five years to €10 billion. These two facts are not unrelated; they are completely intertwined. The Government at this time of low wages and high profits wants to ensure that profits remain high at the cost of workers' wages remaining low....

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Government should stop the Shannon LPG.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Tax the polluters.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I, and RISE, are completely opposed to the carbon tax. The Government is going to pay a price, politically, for this carbon tax, particularly if it heads towards the figure it wants between now and 2030 by a means of continuous increases, year after year. The reason for that is that it is an unjust, regressive tax on the one hand and, on the other hand, is completely inadequate and, at...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: We had a tale of two budgets presented by the Minister for Finance. It is the worst of times for working-class people: with eco-austerity in the form of a regressive carbon tax, no increase in social welfare rates, no increase in pensions, what looks like a postponement of a rise in a completely inadequate minimum wage, almost nothing in terms of real investment in public housing and...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I checked them and can confirm that they are right.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Some 429 local authority builds is the figure that Deputy Barry gave.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is being spent on the landlords.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Make it free.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: At a healthy profit for the developers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Application of VAT to Food Supplements: Discussion (3 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Most of the questions I wanted to ask have been answered. How many people in Ireland who regularly buy these products would be affected if the zero rate was removed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Application of VAT to Food Supplements: Discussion (3 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I thank Mr. Ronan.

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: People across the country better hope that politicians' hot air will not be covered by the carbon tax. If it is, we will be paying massive amounts of tax for the performances of the Taoiseach, who loves to go abroad, present himself as a champion for the climate and other progressive issues and pretend he is leading the way. At home, however, the policies remain the same. He remains bound...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Can I just add my voice to that?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: The idea that-----

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

Paul Murphy: I will try to do it in five minutes. With the most politeness I can muster, I have to say that the Minister has a brass neck. The response in the previous debate we had was to say to us, "Sure, you have no concrete proposals. You just want to get rid of capitalism. You've been banging on about that forever. You want socialism; of course, you do." He would say that, ignoring all the...

Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Sep 2019)

Paul Murphy: The Government does not have the courage to vote against it.