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Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: First, I am disappointed that my proposed amendment and the amendment from Deputy Gibney were ruled out of order. I understand the reason given was that they were not in line with the spirit of the Bill. Deputy Gibney's amendment sought to have the maximum number of junior Ministers set at 20, while I sought to have it set at 15. It seems to me that this is legislation changing the number...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Minister not embarrassed to have his first act in this Government and in this Dáil be such a stroke and to be so blatant in sharing out the spoils of political office? Is he not embarrassed to have to trot out the line that "Oh, it is really about the size of the population and we need more people" and so on? Does it not cause him to cringe even a little bit inside to so...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Healy. I will leave at least three minutes for him, maybe more. We will see. Here we are with the first Bill of this Dáil and this Government, and we are off to an extremely bad start, both procedurally, because the debate is being guillotined, and with respect to what the Government is proposing. We are having a short Second Stage debate and then we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The quickest, easiest and most immediate response to the housing crisis is to deal with the scourge of vacancy and dereliction. In almost every estate in Dublin South-West one will find vacant houses. These are perfectly good homes or they were at one stage. They could be used to house families. Instead, they are a blight on the community. We got figures recently that 14,500 of the more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Why did you not say this during the election?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach is the last man standing from the Fianna Fáil Governments that blew up the property bubble and then saw the whole thing come crashing down and ordinary people paid the price for a decade or so. It seems the Taoiseach is committed to going back to the future. He is resurrecting the same policies that caused the 2008 financial crash. At the weekend, it was tax breaks for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Normally, the Taoiseach reads the response first and then we speak.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government refers to reforming the triple lock legislation. It was reported last Friday that a draft law to end the triple lock will shortly be brought to Cabinet. Will the Taoiseach provide some detail on this? In what way is the triple lock going to be ended or reformed? Back in 2013, the Taoiseach, who was not then Taoiseach, hit the nail on the head when he said that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: You believed it in 2013.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: No. It does not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for the implementation of the programme for Government. [4512/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: The lecturers of the BIMM music college have been forced onto the picket lines. They face an incredible assault on their rights, with 53 workers facing redundancy. A small number of them will be re-employed on less than half the hourly wage they were on previously and the rest will be faced with the choice of getting bogus self-employment on zero-hour contracts. This is part of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----TU Dublin should tell BIMM to back off or else it will not be able to continue with this arrangement?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is mostly funded by the State.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: It was after 7 October.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Israel began the full-scale ground invasion on 27 October. The Taoiseach visited in the middle of November. He participated in a propaganda visit when the genocide was fully under way. He is now misleading the House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: Correct the record, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: You misled the House. The Taoiseach claimed he visited when the war was not under way, but it was well under way.