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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: This is going to become an issue in the election. The budget has clarified who this Government represents.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: This Government represents the burger joints, the developers and the corporate landlords, but not ordinary people.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: This is a budget of austerity at a time of plenty, which is incredible. No exaggeration, but this budget is going to make life for ordinary people harder at a time when we have a very large budget surplus and when €1.7 billion is being given to corporations in various forms of corporate welfare. If an alien had come down here at 1 o'clock today and listened to the budget speeches of...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentations and their work. I will start with the DFI. I was interested in the comment about the AI Act aligning with the UNCRPD. Is that actually happening in reality? A footnote to the presentation states that Recital 96 of the EU AI Act stipulates that deployers of high-risk AI systems, especially public bodies or private entities providing public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Olhausen. My next question is for the National Disability Authority. It relates to some of what Dr. Begley has said. They used to say about computers that if you put garbage in, you get garbage out. If you give a computer the wrong information, it will come back. With AI, it will be discrimination and oppression in, discrimination and oppression out, and probably amplified....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Disability: Discussion (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have a question for Mr. Culhane from Voice of Vision Impairment in respect of what has been said about potential GDPR violations when people who are visually impaired are using AI to, let us say, read a bank statement. Will he give an example of what that would look like? I can imagine if someone has a gambling problem and repeated instances of sending money to a gambling site appear on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government has plans to join the Hague Group. [53225/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the systematic violence being employed by the Myanmar military, including airstrikes on civilian areas with a view to clearing territory ahead of planned elections, if Ireland will state unequivocally that it will not recognise any election conducted by the Myanmar military while it is engaged in aerial attacks and forced...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (7 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the fact his Department has spent €4.6 million on court cases brought by citizenship applicants due to long waiting times (details supplied), the means by which his Department will address these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53578/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Prosecute them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I will take nine minutes and Deputy Healy will take three. I will start by adding our condemnation of the horrendous attack on the synagogue in Britain. We should be very clear about what we saw last night. It was an act of piracy in international waters. The Israeli special forces unit Shayetet 13 surrounded 40-something flotilla boats, sprayed a whole number of them with heavy water...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 83. To ask the Minister for Health when she anticipates that no child will have to wait longer than three months for spinal surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52561/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: Again, it is unambiguously positive. It is positive for the artists who participated and for society as a whole. It provides some sort of halt or counterpressure to the drain of mass emigration of many of our most creative young people who are effectively being driven out of here by the cost-of-living crisis and are going to live in less expensive but creative cities which is sucking the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: What problem does Sinn Féin have with the people of Listowel? It is absolutely ridiculous, Minister, to be fair.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have not followed the issue but I thought that was a bit ridiculous.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will increase the payment under the basic income for the arts scheme in budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52583/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will make the basic income for the arts scheme permanent in budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52584/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Paul Murphy: My question goes back to the previous grouping in relation to the basic income for the arts, BIA, scheme. What the Minister said earlier was unambiguously positive in terms of the evidence of the cost benefit analysis of the scheme. Will the scheme be made permanent? Will it be expanded to four or five times its current size so that all eligible applicants can benefit from it?