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Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will start with a quote from a parent who put it extremely well: Early years childcare in Ireland seems broken. The staff themselves are poorly paid and move frequently. Parents have to pay exorbitant fees, which become even more challenging to fund if there is more than one child. The Government needs to look at a more wholescale change to the system. There are environmental and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Paul Murphy: First, I express my horror and outrage at the attack on civilian infrastructure and specifically the attack on the children's hospital in Kyiv by the Russian military. It is absolutely horrendous to see the pictures from that hospital. It certainly seems to be a clear war crime by the Putin regime. In relation to the summit, this was heralded as a peace summit. Obviously, though, it is...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: I am going to share time. I welcome the motion and note that the Government has not tabled an amendment to it, which means it is going to allow the motion to pass with no intention of implementing its demands for dramatic reductions in pupil-teacher ratios, investment according to OECD averages and so on. It makes something of a farce of this place, to be honest. Our primary schools have...

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...-of-living crisis which has its roots in the same profiteering that lies behind the rising cost of rents, food and fuel. All of them are caused by profiteering corporations and a Government which refuses to do anything about any of these crises. The reason it gives, and the one I presume we will hear from the Minister of State today as to why we cannot do anything about the mortgages, is...

Emergency Price Controls Bill 2024: First Stage (23 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to introduce emergency price controls for petrol, diesel, electricity, natural gas and home heating oil. We in People Before Profit are seeking leave to introduce the Emergency Price Controls Bill 2024 today because increases in the cost of living have not gone away. The media is not covering them any more. The...

Grocery Price Caps Bill 2024: First Stage (22 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish a Grocery Price Caps Commission to set maximum prices for basic foodstuffs and to provide for related matters. I am very happy to introduce the Grocery Price Caps Bill and thank all those who have worked on it. We in People Before Profit are introducing the Bill because food costs are a massive issue for...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the motion. The fact the Government is going to allow it to pass and do nothing about it will not change the fact that on the Dáil record, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will be named and shamed for their chronic underinvestment in public dentistry. The record will show, without opposition from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, that over decades when one party or the other was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I give considerable credit to the work small farmers are doing - people who are struggling and are not supported by the Government. I do not give any credit to the Government, which simply does the bidding of the agribusiness lobby at the expense of the environment and at the expense of small farmers. The Minister likes to hide the reality of farming behind the phrase "family farms"....

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to start by thanking all the disabled people's organisations that have participated in preparing this motion. Their demands are front and centre, which is exactly as it should be. So far, there is no sign of a Government countermotion, so I presume that means the Government is not going to oppose our motion and will allow it to pass. Before there is uproar and celebration in the...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: We in People Before Profit welcome the passing of the nature restoration law. If we had an MEP, which we hope to have at least one of after the forthcoming European election, we would have attempted to strengthen it but would have then voted for it. I will set out the reasons we would have done so. First, it is very simple. It has been laid out by a bunch of people so at least the basic...

Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage (5 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ban advertising of fossil fuels and fossil fuelled vehicles, including commercial sponsorship, by corporate entities and to establish a Fossil Fuel Information Commission for the purposes of product and price comparisons by the public. I am introducing this Bill today as a small step in combating the climate catastrophe...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...Celbridge Manor. That is where more than 100 people seeking asylum, children, women and men, live. The crowd chanted, "Paedophiles out. Deport them now. Get them out." There were threats made to burn down the building, where people live. Why? Because of a disgusting lie spread on social media by far-right agitators. The lie was that a seven-year-old girl had been raped in the hotel...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...for bringing forward this very important Bill. We live in a world of growing, galloping and deepening inequality. Since 2020, about two thirds of the new wealth created in the economy went to just 1% of the population, almost twice what the bottom 99% got globally. The same process is happening in Ireland, where the richest two billionaires now have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: First, I thank the families, the advocates and the children in the Gallery for taking time out to fight for healthcare services. People should get the healthcare that they need. They should not be on long waiting lists. They should not be waiting over a year to get healthcare. It is a national scandal that we are here tonight. We have been here before. Children with scoliosis are being...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I agree with the point of bringing into line how Ukrainians and other asylum seekers are treated. The question is whether we go down to how asylum seekers are treated with inhumanity or go up to how Ukrainians were treated with basic humanity. Sinn Féin and the Government are saying that we should level down to the level of inhumanity. Sinn Féin's position was for the scrapping...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister was at pains to emphasise how much Ireland has done, how proud we are of the people we have taken in and so on. However, she wants to cut the payments to Ukrainians. She wants people to live on €38.80 a week while living in overcrowded and inadequate emergency accommodation. She thinks that is okay, and so does Sinn Féin. In fact, it is pretty poor. Would the...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: Perfect. I am very happy to do that. These amendments relate to what is effectively new legislation introduced by the Government on Committee Stage, which is extremely poor practice in terms of having any parliamentary oversight. We should have had new legislation. The Government wants to strip rights from Ukrainians and put them on poverty rates as it treats other asylum seekers. It...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: I support our amendments and the others that go in the same direction. I am disappointed, if not surprised, by the extremely limp wording proposed by the Government to replace this section. Having such poor wording, which is correctly open to strong criticism, as we will make, not only misses an opportunity to make a meaningful difference for carers in this country, but also endangers this...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank Deputies Pringle, Connolly and Collins for this excellent and timely motion. It aims to end the current situation whereby public money is invested indirectly through ISIF in damaging fossil fuel investments and agribusiness in the global south. It highlights Ireland’s role as a conduit for billions of euro of investment in damaging fossil fuels. In particular, I highlight...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (30 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...teaching posts nationwide, 513 are in Dublin. In my constituency, Dublin 24 has 58 vacancies, Dublin 15 has 35 vacancies and Dublin 12 has 33 vacancies. Teachers and principals have written to the Minister warning her that this has reached crisis point and that they are tired and worn out from trying to find teachers for the most disadvantaged and marginalised children. In...