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- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: That is true.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: No. The Tánaiste is presenting it as if we rely on a decision of the Security Council but that is not true.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is in black and white in the law. Black and white. It is not just the UN Security Council but the UN General Assembly. What is this actually about? If there was a regional peacekeeping mission, it could be endorsed by the UN General Assembly by a majority vote and Irish troops could then participate in it. Does the Tánaiste accept that?
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: Therefore, there is no veto.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: That is in the law now. It is in the 2006 Act.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is. There is no such thing as a veto. It is an absolute red herring in this debate. The other thing that is dragged in as an example of why we need to do it is the idea that we may need to go and get our citizens from abroad but are currently blocked from doing so. Again, that is a red herring and is not true. In the 2006 Act there is a series of exceptions set out where the triple...
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste is not able to come up with any examples where the triple lock prevents us from sending troops. The truth is that this is about sending troops on US-led and NATO-led missions into the likes of-----
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: You say it yourself.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: You say yourself it is at the core of our neutrality.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: A bit of honesty.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: We had a Bill.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: We proposed a Bill. You voted it down.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: We had a wording.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if cleaning staff employed directly by schools should be paid for 7 June 2024, even if their school is being used as a polling station on that day. [24172/24]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: All eyes are on Rafah. The Taoiseach spoke earlier about the horrific scenes that the world watched - children being burned alive who had fled from elsewhere in Gaza, like a million other people, to Rafah before being targeted by Israel. Can the Taoiseach tell me whether any Irish-exported technology was used in the preparation of that massacre or in the close to 40,000 other deaths?...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: We tried at the Business Committee and you voted against it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: No, they have not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister. I will start with the EPA report and the EU targets, which are relative to 2005 rather than our 2018 targets. The EPA is saying that with the existing measures we would achieve a reduction of 9% by 2030 and with additional measures it would be 25%, down from 30% that was estimated last year. Will the Minister outline the range of fines we are looking at if, for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: I agree with that, but the Government that is putting money away in a rainy day fund as opposed to investing to do it now. That does not make sense from a point of view of the economics involved, quite apart from the need to have a liveable future for humanity. Putting money away now and not spending it, and as a consequence being hit with fines that run into the billions, does not make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: But this is with additional measures. This is the stuff on which it was promised that money would be spent. At the moment, however, it is not planned to spend the money.