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An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Aois Vótála a Laghdú go Sé Bliana Déag), 2025: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Social Democrats and Deputy Farrelly in particular for bringing this forward. It is a really important Bill and it is great they have used their Private Members' time for it. I do not think we need to debate this; it is the most obvious thing in the world that 16 and 17-year-olds should be able to vote. It is their future and them who are going to live in the barbarous world we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: I presume the Minister is not disputing the fact that the budget made disabled people poorer, despite the measures he is announcing. The disability support grant was cut by €400. In respect of the living alone allowance, the lump sum of €200 was cut. That is another €200 gone. The fuel allowance was reduced for disabled people, resulting in a net loss of €160....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The cost-of-living crisis is now. The cost-of-disability crisis is now. One in four households with a disabled person experiences deprivation. That is going to be worse next year as a result of the budget. Again, we live in one of the richest countries in the world that has record national surpluses. The Government has made repeated commitments to equality and inclusion, but it has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will reintroduce a cost-of-disability lump sum payment before Christmas to reduce the negative impact of budget 2025 on disabled people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62432/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (13 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The programme for Government promises a permanent, annual cost-of-disability support payment, with a view to incrementally increasing this payment. Instead of doing that, we have just had a budget in one of the richest countries in the world, with a substantial budget surplus, that did not introduce this payment. Instead, it made disabled people poorer to the tune of more than...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The budget reneged on a key commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a permanent annual cost of disability support payment and then to incrementally increase it. We know that it costs a lot of money to be disabled in this country. A few years ago, the Department of Finance estimated it at around €10,000. It has obviously gone up substantially since then. Last year's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Government made them poorer, and took over €1,000 from them. Will it recognise this as a major mistake? Will it bring back an emergency lump sum cost-of-living payment for disabled people before Christmas?

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach did praise him. I was here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on disability will next meet. [56995/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: It has been almost two years since I spoke here about a campaign of far-right terror in this State. We have seen this move step by step from threats to intimidation to misinformation and on to the burning down of empty buildings and attacks on buildings with people inside, including women, children, young babies. We have also witnessed attacks on migrants. Last week, we had the prevention...

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice, migration and social affairs will next meet. [53245/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Last week, the Taoiseach made a fine speech in Belém. He spoke about the need to listen to the science, tell the truth to citizens and for urgent action to meet climate targets. He said that leaders must lead. This was at COP30. The problem is that he does not take his own advice when he is back at home. He leads a Government which is on track to meet our legally binding targets by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: They wrote the budget.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Buy them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Buy them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: No, I asked the question about the-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is the Taoiseach going to launch additional measures?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: Is he serious about the 51% target?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: The revelations at the weekend from a CHI whistleblower about why Harvey Morrison Sherratt was removed from a waiting list were truly shocking and scary. Apparently - allegedly, but wrongly - it was because he was deemed to be palliative. It underscores the need for a full public inquiry as the parents have been campaigning for-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Paul Murphy: -----and the need for a debate this week with the Minister to come and answer questions on this issue.