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Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Everything about the Government's response to this issue is utterly cynical and it must be called out on it. Its approach to the question of procedure makes a joke of the supposed democracy of this Parliament, while its approach to the substance of the issue makes a joke of any commitment to tackle plastic pollution. It is a good motion, but I do not mean any offence to its movers when I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Effectiveness and Timeliness of Consent Classes provided in Third-Level Institutions: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I would like to ask a couple of questions along similar lines. Dr. MacNeela mentioned that the limited education which exists in schools can be seen in the work that is being done in Galway. I ask him to explain how that can be seen and what its impact is. Obviously, it links in with the point that has been made about taking an holistic approach. Third level institutions do not exist as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: What is the witnesses' reaction to the Government report on local public banking in Ireland? I will summarise what I see as the essence of the report and the witnesses can feel free to give a different assessment. The key lines are that there is not a compelling business case for the State to establish a new local public banking system but that there is no impediment to Irish Rural Link and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: More generally, does Mr. Sibley accept that there is a problem with the model of banking that we have in Ireland and in most countries at the moment where banking is mostly private and for profit? Even where there are State-owned banks, in reality they are run on that same model which has proven to be problematic, both in terms of the immediate scandals that we end up dealing with here such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I liked the phrase Mr. Sibley used that banks should serve the interests of society and consumers etc. It seems to me that in the past decade society has more been serving the interests of the banks than the other way around. Does Mr. Sibley believe it is the case that on the whole, the private banking system that we have does serve the interests of society and the economy as a whole?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Local Public Banking: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Sibley agree with the proposition that there is an implicit State guarantee and effectively an implicit public subsidy to private banks as a result of having banks that are too big to fail which we obviously saw in practice in this country in the course of the last decade? A recent study concluded that the total implicit State guarantee for private banks within the EU is €240...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: I will be brief in following my colleague, Deputy Mick Barry. This will be the last speaking slot to be taken by Solidarity-People Before Profit in the Second Stage debate because we are very anxious to see the legislation progress and take effect as soon as possible, particularly in the light of the Government's precarious position. I will make a few brief general points and two...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2018)

Paul Murphy: It is very clear that this summit is extremely unlikely to result in any outcome on Brexit. Instead, in recent days there has been a ratcheting up of rhetoric about the potential for no deal, playing on the very real fears of ordinary people in Ireland, Britain and across Europe. The problem in all of this is, as it has been from the start, is that these are negotiations between vested...

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...