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Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: ...that oral health is so important for overall health and well-being but it is neglected and seriously under-resourced in our public health system. If your teeth and gums are healthy, you are less likely to suffer from heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. Dental care is a key part of preventative healthcare that can keep everyone healthier for longer and lower...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: As the Minister will know, there is a two-tier system in place in respect of homeless HAP. Those who entered the scheme after July 2022 are able to access a higher rate than those who entered before that time. This has resulted in an unjust situation where people are faced with the prospect of renewed homelessness in order to be able to access the higher rate. I will give an example from...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the long overdue publication of this report. AsIAm has pointed out that it is worrying to see references to amending the Education Act, which could delay the action we need to see. All parents know, and the Government acknowledges in all its statements, how crucial timely intervention is, but for many it is not delivered. I will take the opportunity to raise an important...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise the poor state of healthcare for those suffering with allergies in this country. Many parents are forced to spend huge amounts to travel abroad to get their children the treatment they need. I spoke to a woman a few months ago who had to go to America for six weeks. She had to pay €8,000 for treatment. She was also out of work for six weeks and had to pay for...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: It is interesting in debates in the House and on the media how the Government will not own its own proposals. It tells us that what it is doing is going to increase investment in the rental sector and that will ultimately bring rents down. That is the underlying logic of what the Government is doing. However, it refuses to say the bit in the middle in terms of why this is going to increase...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Paul Murphy: I want to thank all the participants in the Global March to Gaza, particularly the Irish ones, for the support we received from ordinary people in this country. I express my wish that everyone currently being detained by the Egyptian authorities is released, able to go home, and to continue to apply pressure to prevent the sort of scenes we saw yesterday where more than 50 people were killed...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 9(2)) (Amount of Financial Contribution) Order 2025: Motion (21 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: Fine Gael's manifesto for the previous general election stated it would "Stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes." It would, it said, "unequivocally support Ukraine". That promise, like all the other promises of this Government, lasted approximately 100 days. It was not worth the paper it was written on. One of the first things the Government is doing is slashing supports to Ukrainian...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank Cara Darmody for forcing this issue onto the Dáil agenda. Her bravery in protesting outside the Dáil for 50 hours has forced the Government to sit up and pay attention. However, I want to make a very obvious point: that it is a disgrace that Cara and other disability campaigners, including the parents of children with additional needs, are having to resort to sleep-outs...

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The general election campaign for Fine Gael got off to a very bad start because a video emerged of Michael O'Leary launching the election campaign of Deputy Peter Burke, now the Minister responsible for this area, including, unfortunately, workers' rights, saying the things Fine Gael and its supporters say to each other when they think...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2025)

Paul Murphy: One of the first protests I went on was to demand the introduction of a minimum wage. At that stage there was no minimum wage. Bosses could pay what they liked. That campaign was won and 25 years ago a national minimum wage was introduced. Scandalously, the minimum wage included provision for legal discrimination against young workers. That inequality continues to this day. Around...

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Paul Murphy: While there is a lot of rhetoric in this debate about protecting workers, it is necessary to take the veil away from some of that rhetoric from the Government and some Opposition parties. Behind that veil, what they are really talking about is protecting the big US multinationals that have operations here, acting on the basis that big pharma and tech have the same interests as workers. That...

Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward the motion and thank Family Carers Ireland and the young carers who have campaigned on it. Like Deputy Stanley, I welcome that the Government is not opposing the motion but I warn Family Carers Ireland and young carers watching this that there is a big gap between not opposing a motion and actually implementing what is in a motion that is...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Murphy: ...by this Government so far and by successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments down through the years. The motion and the analysis and speeches we have heard from the proposers, however, fail to look under the bonnet and figure out why this waste is happening. The solutions proposed would actually make things even worse. The motion seeks to double down on a neoliberal rip-off...

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I have to say it has been a pretty depressing debate so far, with a few honourable exceptions. Most of the Deputies have swallowed and then regurgitated the spin from big tech. I find it incredible that we had a speech from the new Minister of State with responsibility for AI and its only reference to climate change is about AI being used to help us address sustainability and climate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: ...task force recommends improving public transport by implementing the city centre transport plan. How on earth does the Taoiseach think this is compatible with outsourcing more and more routes to private companies like Go-Ahead Ireland, which has been a disaster for commuters? Workers and students in Tallaght, Knocklyon and Rathfarnham have had their lives turned upside down by the number...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: ...emissions targets, because we will blow right past them. He does not care. He does not care about the bills that are going up for ordinary people. He does not care about people who are forced to pay carbon taxes when they have no other way to get to work. He does not care about energy resilience and sustainability when we now have over 20% of our electricity going to data centres....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (5 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State for the answer. I obviously accept that the Minister for Transport is not involved in the day-to-day operation of public transport services. I am not holding the Minister personally responsible for any bus not turning up, but at the same time, the Minister of State referred to the Government's recent commitment to improving public transport under the new...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (5 Feb 2025)

Paul Murphy: In the past two weeks, I have been inundated with complaints about Go-Ahead Ireland buses not showing up. I have spoken to my colleague, Councillor Conor Reddy in Ballymun-Finglas. I have also spoken to Deputy Boyd Barrett, who represents Dún Laoghaire. It is clear to me that this is not just an issue in Tallaght or Dublin South-West. It is the same story everywhere that Go-Ahead...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Paul Murphy: -----and see that what is consistent is that while pretending to talk about common sense and all that good stuff, in reality, they represent the interests of the rich in this country. That is the truth of it. It is quite ironic today to have speeches telling us it is not possible to increase corporation tax or to have a tax on wealth. The reason it is ironic today is that I got a push...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister for Health has the neck to come in here and claim that the pay and numbers strategy is not a recruitment moratorium when the health unions are telling us that is precisely what it is. To be clear, it does not matter to health workers or to patient safety whether or not it is officially called a recruitment moratorium. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a...