Results 9,661-9,680 of 11,956 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: It is not a single amendment; that is my point. The three amendments we submitted have been subsumed in amendment No. 2.
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have with me a copy of the e-mail we sent, which states we "would like to make the following amendments to the motion" and subsequently lists three different amendments. This is important because we would like to have a roll call vote on the amendment on paragraph [c].
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: We will press all three amendments.
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett moved it because he was asked to move it.
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: This is wrong. I accept that we were late submitting the amendments and I do not have a problem with the person who did the work in the office. May I now move the three amendments to paragraphs [a], [b], [c] and [d] and dispose of them in order?
- Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact that we are going to have a public tribunal of inquiry into this matter. Thanks for that go to Maurice McCabe and the other whistleblowers who must be commended for speaking out in the face of everything that has been thrown at them precisely for speaking out. What will be uncovered is only a glimpse of the dark underbelly of the State and how it can be used in such a way...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputies Ruth Coppinger and Richard Boyd Barrett.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have zero confidence in this Government for a lot of reasons, but they were crystallised this week when we got a glimpse of the dark, rotten and sinister underbelly of the Irish State, namely, the black propaganda campaign that has been alleged to have come from the top of An Garda Síochána. The response of the Government to the exposure gives a glimpse of the threat to people's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: He will get a chance to come back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Just like the officials' view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Yes, it is, because they are not judges.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: It is for the Chairman to allow interjections.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: It sounds like we are at the European Court of Justice already. It is nothing personal when I say I do not believe the European Commission is respecting the political process here. It is doing the very opposite. I refer to the letters sent to the expert commission and the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney. I suggest Mr. Ciobanu-Dordea's presentation was designed to state we did not have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: That is not the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Yes, but there is inconsistency in the witness's answers that he is simply not acknowledging. In 2010, it clearly says that it kicks in when this is an established practice at the time of the adoption of the directive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: But that was the answer that was given in 2010.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Okay, then the answer has changed. That is fine. At least we have an acknowledgement that the answer has changed. The second point relates to established practice. Why does the Deputy think the word "established" exists in article 9(4)? What the witness explained as established is just a matter of practice or of something changing. If something changes over time, there is a different...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have never paid water charges in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Therefore there is not an established practice of water charges in this country.