Results 81-100 of 12,277 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to prevent a school (details supplied) from having its number of teachers reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30982/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will remove the cap on SNA allocations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30978/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (12 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a legal maximum class size for primary and post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (12 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure every child will have access to an appropriate school place in their local community this September. [30980/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (12 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will guarantee that every child will have access to an appropriate school place in their local community this September. [30979/25]

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: First, I thank the Social Democrats for using its time to allow this joint motion to be debated. There is a lot of obfuscation from the Government and an attempt to mislead people in the counter motion and in the Minister’s speech. It is true that the Central Bank does not sell, endorse or oversee these bonds, but the key point is that it is facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: In his opening statement, the Minister said the lack of affordable accommodation is a big barrier for students attending tertiary education, and that is obviously correct. He is part of the Government that signed off on a plan yesterday that is going to make that crisis for students a lot worse. Arguably, students are the group that is hit hardest. Students who are in rental accommodation...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Let me explain to you-----

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is my time.

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Let me explain to the Minister how it will work and he can tell me if I am wrong.

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, and he is a Government Minister and can tell me if it is wrong. There will be no rental protection for students who are in private rented accommodation every time they change tenancy. Let us say I am from Castlebar and I am going to college in Dublin. I rent from September until June or July. I will come back next September and I will not get any rent protection. My rent can be...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Minister saying the press statement issued by the Department of housing yesterday was inaccurate?

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Minister stated the lack of affordable accommodation is a big barrier for students attending tertiary accommodation-----

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: ----- and it is a priority for him.

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yet, he does not know how the new scheme is going to work.

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Yes, and you signed off on it.

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister signed off on it, and agreed to it with collective responsibility.

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Can he tell students now that if they are in private rented accommodation they are going to be covered by rental protection and that they are not going to face market increases every time they have a new tenancy?

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree that when this legislation is being put together, students need to be protected so they cannot be subject to market resets every time they return to college, for example, the three or four times in the course of going to college?

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thought he asked if we were doing yes-no answers.