Results 11,461-11,480 of 12,356 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- 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.,...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: When did we attack farmers?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: We do not.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: The ECB is responsible for Greece.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Keep going.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: It is the central issue but we have not got an answer.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: Let us go to Committee Stage.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: I will start by responding to the comments made by the Minister of State on the character of the debate. It seems that some terms are being conflated or, at any rate, bloated. Last night in raising a point of order there was a reference to "fascism" and today we have heard a reference to a "disruptive debate". I encourage anybody watching to read the transcript or watch the debate we had...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: I am responding to the points the Minister of State made about privatisation. It is another empty promise from the Government. The Minister did not answer the points about the privatisation which is happening now, never mind that might potentially happen in the future. This is privatisation from below, with the design, build and operate contracts going to major multinational water...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: That is my response to what the Minister was saying. I will speak to amendment No. 1 in my name to amendment No. 20. It is a very clear amendment, tabled by me and Deputies Joe Higgins and Ruth Coppinger. We propose, in the third line of paragraph (a), proposed to be inserted by section 42(a), to delete the words "or more than one". Currently the amendment reads, "Subject to paragraphs...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has considered the job creation potential of removing the extra hours public servants were required to work under the Haddington Road agreement and the filling of those hours by new recruits to the public service. [26128/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (2 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has considered reversing the provision that new entrants to the public service have lower pay and conditions than existing staff. [26129/15]
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)
Paul Murphy: That is correct. I wish to read out a report on the National One-Parent Family Network Facebook page. It states:The transition to other payments has been disgracefully handled. Some people have had their increases in FIS, others nothing. Some people have nothing to live on for the week! They've been told to go to the CWO for emergency payments (but have you tried getting to see the CWO...