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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (16 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: 396. To ask the Minister for Health when a surgeon will be appointed to cater for those in need of excessive skin removal surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; the measures being put in place for those in need of surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41974/18]

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. I have no personal animosity towards former Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, but if what the Taoiseach has said is correct - and I have no reason to believe it is not - then his position was untenable. The fact that the former Minister had multiple private dinners with Mr. McCourt and did not disclose them to the public or this House on the many...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: He resigned because of Varadkar.

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Will there be questions following the statement?

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: The situation we are in now is thoroughly unsatisfactory. We, as the Opposition, came in with a series of questions regarding the NBP process and the relationship and meetings between the Minister, Deputy Naughten, with David McCourt. The Minister chose to resign and leave the Chamber but our questions remain and it is entirely appropriate that the Business Committee should meet and someone...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: He did the opposite.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I will repeat the first question, which is the only question I am going to ask to avoid any possibility that another one is answered. Was the Minister due to meet with Mr. McCourt in Leinster House on or around 18 April? Is there a diary entry for a lunch or meeting with Mr. McCourt in Leinster House on or around 18 April? If that is the case, what was going to be the nature of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Was it in the Minister's diary?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: This is the place to ask questions of Ministers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Minister's title includes "Climate Action". We had a promise of inaction for another year from the Government yesterday in the budget announcement. Is the Minister disappointed with the budget, given his responsibility for climate action? Does he accept that it is criminal, on behalf of future generations, to do nothing, wash his hands of the situation and to make no effort to avoid...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: The money allocated is completely inadequate to do what has to be done. This is a challenge for a generation. James Hansen, a former NASA scientist, said in response to the report two days ago, "1.5C gives young people and the next generation a fighting chance of getting back to the Holocene", before the impact of humanity, or close to it, and continued, "That is probably necessary if we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has given consideration to a model that does not rely on the private sector to roll out broadband infrastructure in view of the difficulties with the national broadband plan's tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41223/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: This question relates to the roll-out of the national broadband plan, NBP. I have particular questions that flow from the earlier exchanges, which I will perhaps put in the form of supplementary questions. The more general question I have is whether the Minister accepts that the farce of a process, which has effectively seen a bidder, a US venture capitalist, win on the basis of everybody...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I want to follow up on particulars from the exchange earlier about relations with Mr. David McCourt. Deputy Dooley asked a question, which potentially presented new information about this controversy, regarding a lunch in Leinster House on 18 April. The Minister replied that he did not have lunch with Mr. McCourt on that day. Were there plans to meet with Mr. McCourt on or around that day?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: 4. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the State playing a leadership role in addressing climate change; the structures in place with others sections of the Government to achieve this, in particular in the agriculture sector and public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41258/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, report from two days ago. The findings are absolutely devastating in what it means for humanity. In blunt terms, it is spells out that we have 12 years to stop global warming going over 1.5° Celsius. Another 0.5° Celsius rise would significantly worsen the risk of drought, floods, extreme heat and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: The Minister should not have met with bidders in any process.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Projects (10 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Citizens' Assembly recommendation that there should be community or public ownership of future renewable energy projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41224/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: It was so dishonest of Fianna Fáil to vote for a motion last week calling for a minimum increase of €1 billion to be spent on housing in this budget and to come in the following week and agree a budget with Fine Gael that does not contain anything like that. It should be prepared for a massive Saturday protest to take place in the coming weeks, a protest that will have as its...