Results 11,701-11,720 of 11,968 for speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 375. To ask the Minister for Defence the resources being deployed and the activities of Defence Forces personnel in Mali. [1468/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 376. To ask the Minister for Defence the resources being deployed and the activities of Defence Forces personnel in Chad. [1469/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Water Expenditure (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 402. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Irish Water is paying for the use of Garda resources in the policing of protests at the installation of water meters. [49577/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: English Language Training Organisations (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 419. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are being put in place to ensure the former students of a now closed English-language school (details supplied) are able to extend their visas and not be discommoded due to the closure of the college; her views on the situation facing students of closed language schools with particular reference to compensating students for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 471. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on extending the terms of reference to the commission of investigation lead by Sean Guerin to include an investigation into the death of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1708/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 525. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 who is a patient of Tallaght hospital can expect to wait for essential surgery on their upper arm; his views on the length of the waiting list for elective upper limb surgery; and the plans that exist to clear the waiting list. [49468/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 603. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; when they may expect a tonsil operation in Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24; and his views on the waiting lists for tonsil surgery in Tallaght hospital. [1072/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 872. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total receipts collected for motor tax in 2013. [49644/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 989. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the waiting times for national car tests in each test centre in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49626/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 990. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if measures are being taken to ensure that those who have an expired national car test certificate and who have applied for a test but are unable to receive an appointment for a test due to long waiting lists do not acquire penalty points. [49627/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations Re-opening (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 993. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to re-open Dunleer railway station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49671/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hedge Cutting Season (14 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: 1037. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to extend the closing dates for hedge-cutting to mid-February due to birds nesting earlier. [1503/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (18 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in a situation where the existing landlord refuses to be part of the housing assistance payment scheme and where a tenant is moved from rent supplement to a housing assistance payment, if the tenant may stay on rent supplement and therefore remain in the accommodation. [49032/14]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: The Government, and perhaps the Minister, may not believe we can say "Never again" to those scenarios but they should at least allow people to decide whether they want to say "Never again" by holding a referendum in the spring of 2015.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I wish to respond to the thrust of the Minister, Deputy Varadkar's speech yesterday and that of many other Government Deputies but also, unfortunately, echoed by Fianna Fáil and shamefully by Sinn Féin. What was primarily picked up by the media of what the Minister said was the admission of the blatantly obvious that the eighth amendment is too restrictive and has no respect for...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I would like to focus on the so-called investment plan for Europe put forward by the Commission President, Mr. Juncker, which supposedly contains €315 billion worth of investment. It was described by him as a fresh start for Europe and it has the establishment parties across Europe patting themselves on the back as they say they will now deal with the massive collapse in investment to...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: There is money but we have to access and borrow it and then engage in public investment to create jobs and improve our societies.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the OECD Employment Outlook 2014 which found that Ireland has the second highest percentage of low paid jobs of those countries; his views in favour of raising the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48249/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the Minister of State about the recent OECD Employment Outlook 2014 which found, among other things, that Ireland had the second highest percentage of low paid jobs among the countries of the OECD, second only to the United States. Is that the model of recovery of which the Government is in favour, namely, low wage, precarious, short-term contracts, or, in other words, recovery...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (17 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: It is difficult to dispute the fact that the problem of low pay is rife in Ireland. It can be compared in many ways, but let us compare it across the European Union, in which, compared to EU-15 countries, the level of Irish wage compensation in the private sector is 14% below average; compared to other EU countries not in a bailout programme, the level in Ireland is 21% below average, and...