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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: From September 2020, will any parents have a lower benefit under the new scheme than they have under the existing schemes? I agree with the principle of universality, which is a good thing because it means that society as a whole has a buy-in for something. Therefore it is good to go for universality. However, this problem arises for half-universality because it gives a subsidy but to a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures being taken under the national childcare scheme to assist families that previously would have been on the community childcare subvention programme. [43219/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a national childcare service free at the point of use that meets the needs of all children in society will be introduced. [43218/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if a place at the Lakeview Unit in Naas General Hospital will be provided for a person (details supplied). [43232/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: I wish to ask about the cost of insurance working group in light of the possibility that climbing centres throughout the country will be forced to close because of the exit of insurance providers. I refer to places such as the Dublin climbing centre in Tallaght, which provides facilities for large numbers of young people and older people. It is very important in terms of physical and mental...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2019)

Paul Murphy: Hold the election now.

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?