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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...

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: I am against these amendments and consider them to be quite serious in the substance of their aims of, in the event of Brexit taking place, removing the right of UK citizens to vote in, or stand for, European Parliament elections in this country. It would be the first time in the history of the State that the franchise is restricted as opposed to extended. History, generally speaking, has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 100. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of converting ambulances with excessive mileage into emergency equipment carriers; the number of such vehicles being converted; if they have been replaced by new ambulances; the cost-benefit analysis carried out on this decision taking into account the increased maintenance costs of older vehicles; if consideration was given to the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 4 of the 5 helicopters in use for inter-helicopter transfers are not capable of landing on the rooftop planned of the new national children’s hospital; the planning and consultation which has been carried out in relation to helipads at the new national children’s hospital; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 102. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at night-time the helicopters will have to land at Dublin Airport and the sick children be transported by ambulance to the new national children’s hospitals in view of the fact that none of the five helicopters would be able to land on the proposed helipad; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid out to ambulance service personnel by the HSE due to issues relating to bullying; the number of such cases there has been compensation paid out for; the number that are women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9803/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Health the number of stage 2 and 3 grievances dealt with in the time parameters set out in the HSE grievance procedure with reference to the ambulance service in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9804/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls that required ambulance staff to work beyond their rostered finishing time in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9805/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (27 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 220. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has investigated whether there is remains of a mass famine grave site at a location (details supplied) on Coillte land in view of the fact that there is a granite memorial stone with the inscription of 1,847 there; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9793/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Employment Rights (26 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a review of legislation will be considered to allow employees who work at an embassy here to avail of rights under employment law here, including the pursuance of their cases through the appropriate workplace relations bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9594/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (26 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 654. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location for National Famine Commemoration Day that has been agreed for the third Sunday in May 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9042/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (26 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: 655. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a review of the National Monuments Acts will be considered with a view to amendments in order to ensure that persons that find archaeological objects in circumstances (details supplied) will not be liable to prosecution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9051/19]

European Defence Agency Project: Motion (19 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Each time a European Defence Agency project comes forward, the Government and those in supposed opposition who are also in favour say it is not the European army, which they claim they will oppose when it comes to it. They say that, right now, the project is so limited that we will, of course, be involved. It misses the point about mission creep in the development of the European Defence...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: It is like Groundhog Day every time we discuss housing. I welcome the motion from the Independents 4 Change. We support the motion. It is a good motion but every single time we talk about housing it is exactly the same. The Government says it appreciates that things are bad, but that they are getting better. We have been dealing with that response from this Government and the previous...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Paul Murphy: Saturday's march with 50,000 nurses, midwives, paramedics and their supporters in all sorts of different jobs and trade unions - a sea of INMO blue coming down O'Connell Street - was a striking demonstration of the power and solidarity of working-class people. Coming on top of three days of very effective strike action, it no doubt struck fear into the heart of the Government and brought it...