Results 11,061-11,080 of 11,968 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Is that unparliamentary? I do not have a mob. Will the Deputy withdraw the statement?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: I do not have a mob. Will the Deputy withdraw the statement?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: I do not have a mob. Will the Deputy withdraw the statement?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: I do not have a mob. Will the Deputy withdraw the statement?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Has the Deputy even read the amendments?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: That is not in the amendments.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: With this set of amendments, in particular Amendment No. 21, we are getting to the heart of the Government’s way of doing business, and why it is in effect ramming a new legislation through an existing Bill that has nothing to do with water charges. The approach can be summed up in the word “bullying”. The Bill is about scaremongering and using certain tactics to push...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Okay. That is fine. Is the Minister in a position to give us the figures about the levels of payment of water charges? He has the figures.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: The Cabinet discussed them on Tuesday.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Certainly. The matter is related because this is an attempt to push up the payment levels, which are clearly embarrassingly low from the point of view of the Government. I say to the Minister, the Government and to Irish Water – they cannot hide forever. They can do what they want to try to bring up the figures, but they will be forced to reveal them at some stage-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: -----and if as I suspect they are not good for the Government, we will have a crisis.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: We will see. I look forward to the figures.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: The Minister should show me the figures. In the words of Jerry Maguire, "Show me the money."
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: We can of course.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: That is good. We look forward together to the figures, which I think will show what level of acceptance there is.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: If the figures are good, we would not have this kind of discriminatory bullying legislation that targets tenants in particular. It is especially disgusting to go after tenants when there is a housing crisis in the State and people are being made homeless. People are being kicked out of their homes because rents are going up or their house has been sold and they are simply unable to find...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Yes, two people, Alan and Kellie. They were forced to occupy South Dublin County Council because they could not get any emergency accommodation that was suitable considering that Alan had 50% custody of his son, and they had been sleeping in a tent. It was a disastrous situation which is illustrative of the broader problem and crisis we have in housing and that makes it especially...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: That is true. The Labour Party gladly goes along with it as well.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Certainly. The Minister, Deputy Kelly, is at the front of that campaign of the Labour Party. The only problem the Government side has is that what is being said is not true. Deputy O'Donovan spoke of repeated attacks by Deputy Ruth Coppinger and me on farmers and the rural community. I challenge Deputy O'Donovan, if he is in his office watching the debate, to return to the Chamber and...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: It is good to see the Minister, Deputy Kelly, in the Chamber. We can have a fruitful debate in the coming hours on this amendment. Deputy O'Donovan made a contribution to the debate with his repetition in a rather sharp and pointed way of what the Government is effectively arguing, that is to say, that this a matter of urban versus rural, with urban Deputies and those on the left, etc.,...