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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: At what time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Watt believe that all relevant information from the board about the very substantial rise in costs or the potential for such a rise was reported to the Minister relatively early after being discovered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: Mr. Watt says in the briefing note that Mr. Quinn would have advised the Minister for Health if he felt that serious matters were not being addressed and not being communicated through the governance structures. Is the reason he did not that all the key information he had was transmitted very quickly to the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: Okay. That is useful. I thank Mr. Watt. He made an interesting point earlier. He spoke about a counterfactual situation in which we were not here. He said, fairly, that different variants were possible. One was that we did not have an overrun, but another is that the hospital would have been the same price without this process. If it ended up in the second position, which is that this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: If it turns out that the real cost of building this hospital is this amount, which Mr. Watt has said may potentially be so, would that indicate a problem with the BAM tendering process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: Let me pose a solution, which is to have a State construction company to take on these big projects. One therefore avoids this whole process, the dangers involved in it, the involvement of all these companies which seek to maximise profit, and the race to the bottom with respect to working conditions and so on that goes along with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: It does not look very efficient now, does it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: I will finish by asking if Mr. Watt thinks it is appropriate that PwC is doing the review, considering that PwC is BAM's auditor and has received some €4 million from BAM in the last number of years. Is there a conflict of interest there?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: First, it is great that the Taoiseach supports the school students' strike on 15 March.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: School students across the country should take it as the green light to walk out next Friday week in protest against climate inaction. That is what the school students' strike is about.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: The Government has stated it supports them. If it is not to be a patronising pat on the back, it will support and defend the rights of the students who are protesting for their future and the future of humanity. I agree that it is not a narrow party political issue. However, the system and policies the Taoiseach defends are incompatible with dealing with the issue of climate change. An...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: I return to the question I asked and ask the Taoiseach to answer it, as opposed to posing questions to me. Free public transport would have a major impact on emissions from the second biggest sector in the economy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: It would only cost €600 million, the same amount as the fines Ireland could be facing annually from next year. If the Government is serious about listening to students, will it give a commitment to invest in properly funded - properly paid and proper conditions for the workers - and free public transport?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: Invest more in it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)
Paul Murphy: I am sure the Taoiseach has heard about Greta Thunberg. She is the now 16 year old Swedish school student who started a worldwide movement of school student strikes and protests demanding action on climate change. At the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, conference in Poland, she stated:For 25 years, countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world...
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2019)
Paul Murphy: Everyone in this House and society will agree we need to prepare for Brexit but doing so is not a neutral class-free, agenda-free, ideology-free task, with the exception of dealing with the many legal formalities and so on. Making these legal changes is fine but the approach of the Government and the majority of parties in this House in preparing for Brexit involves a continuation of their...
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2019)
Paul Murphy: It is very difficult to do it.
- European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Feb 2019)
Paul Murphy: Commonwealth citizens in Britain have the right to vote.
- European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Feb 2019)
Paul Murphy: In Britain Australian citizens may vote in elections.
- European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Feb 2019)
Paul Murphy: I wish to return to the legal point. I interrupted the Minister of State to make the point that Commonwealth citizens in Britain have the right to vote in European Parliament elections at the moment. A citizen of Australia living in Britain can vote in European Parliament elections, even though one is not a citizen of a member State. In order to explain the legal basis of that, they refer...