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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: The River Dodder is one of the most biodiverse waterways in Dublin. Dodder Valley Park is beautiful and the council invested €5 million in it recently. However, every time there is heavy rainfall the manholes close to the weir overflow with sewerage. Obviously, that has a damaging impact in terms of people who live in the area, has an impact on the enjoyment of people in the park...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...Government represents. The landlords got a significant tax break. The corporate tax avoiders got an extension of their research and development tax credit, or tax break in reality, and the multimillionaire angel investors got a bespoke tax break. It was a bad budget for people with disabilities, for children and for those on hospital waiting lists. I want to focus on a few specific...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...today. However, angel investors will wake up tomorrow and discover there is a new tax break. If you are an angel investor, it is a great budget because there is a new tax break worth almost €500,000. It is a great budget. For the landlords who get a new tax break, it is a great budget. For the tax-avoiding big corporations, it is a great budget. However, for ordinary people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Costs (4 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...a much better transport system. The report praises free public transport and climate tickets as some of the most popular policy interventions to tackle the climate crisis. It states that if even 5% of car trips were shifted to public transport throughout the EU, oil demand could be reduced by around 7.9 million tonnes. We can already see what impact free public transport would have from...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...and is inherently incapable of doing so; — the Government's policy of encouraging the construction of energy-guzzling data centres, which have accounted for 70 per cent of the increase in metered electricity usage since 2015 and now swallow up 16.5 per cent of total electricity demand, more than all rural homes in the country, has worsened the energy crisis and brought us to the...

Toll Charge Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...off the toll increases. The people who use these roads will obviously welcome that. They are not going to be hit by these toll increases for six months. The Government is still handing over €12.5 million to these private companies, however. The public is still being robbed and will still pay for it but just in another form. The scandal, therefore, continues. It is worth...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...corporate Kennedy Wilson owns close to 3,300 rental apartments. Irish property investor Urbeo is developing build-to-rent units, advertised as studio units, in Citywest in my constituency for €1,500 per month and two-bed apartments for €2,000 per month. US fund Greystar pre-bought 342 apartments being built in Griffith Avenue and advertises for a one-bed at €2,140....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Implementation of the New National Retrofit Plan: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (5 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...is coming from but that is precisely the problem. It is asking individuals to do this, as opposed to saying that as a society we need to do it and that if I, as an individual, cannot afford €25,000 and do not qualify for the warmer homes scheme because I do not receive any social welfare payments, I will be able to benefit from and participate in this transformative change that we...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...because, when you delve into the budget, you see just how much that is the case. I will start with the issue of the fuel allowance. The Minister and the Government made much of giving an extra €5, an amount that is not enough to cover the extra cost of fuel. You can do the maths and it is approximately a third of what is necessary in the context of fuel costs going up by...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...rents are completely out of control, prices are going through the roof and 10,000 people are homeless. It means a further growth of the hospital waiting lists when there are already close to 1 million people on them, while public money continues to be funnelled to private healthcare. It means continuing to fiddle while the world burns and climate catastrophe approaches. During the...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...much data and data infrastructure we really need. The final point I want to make, which I have not had a chance to raise in all of these debates, is about water. Each data centre uses somewhere between 500,000 and 5 million litres of water per day. The Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, said recently that Ireland should position itself as the place to invest due to its "abundance" of...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...green sectors of capitalism, including Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. The truth is what exists, supposedly, in the cloud has a massive physical footprint. There is massive water usage of between 500,000 and 5 million litres of water a day and massive electricity usage. Just around the corner from me in what used to be the Jacob's biscuit factory, which employed approximately 1,000 people,...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...the U-turn on the part of the Government and its promise not to destroy those recordings. The survivors need more than that, however. When the mother and baby homes commission put out the appeal, 549 brave witnesses came forward to share their stories about these detention centres. Three hundred and four were mothers who were sent to them and 228 were people who were born in them. They...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...survivors. The Bon Secours Sisters ran the Tuam mother and baby home. That order is the second largest provider of private healthcare in the State, with revenue in 2019 of more than €300 million, including €5 million in public funding. Will the Minister compel that order to provide redress? Will he nationalise the hospitals owned by the Bon Secours order and bring them...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...for under-12s. It is incredible and outrageous to freeze investment in childcare right now, in spite of the crisis which pre-existed Covid and became exposed and worse as a result of it. A completely inadequate €80 million is provided for retrofitting our schools when one quarter of them do not have hot water and 80% do not have the ventilation they need. There is an air of...

Pre-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...austerity. It is a proposal for four sorts of taxes: the first on the assets of investment funds and holding companies; the second on property transfers; the third on net corporate profits exceeding €5 million; and the fourth on wealth. It is vital that we make the rich pay for this crisis as opposed to ordinary people.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: ..., he voted against a motion to eradicate child poverty. Most of all, he forgot about his actions in regard to the ordinary worker because he said nobody on NPHET will have to go onto the PUP of €350, or now €300 or less, as a result of going to level 5. He did not mention, of course, that he is not going to have to either. What he also did not mention is that his Government...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Sep 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...for Finance the estimated revenue that could be raised from the imposition of an emergency 3% Covid-19 tax on the total assets of natural persons, whatever the legal form of tenure, of €1 million and over, rising to a 5% tax on assets of €10 million and over. [24295/20]

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...should be a restructuring of the order of creditors to ensure that workers come first. In this particular case, the State needs to give up its position as a first creditor and ensure that the €5 million tax debt owed to the State can instead go to workers. I encourage people to support the national demonstration that is happening on Saturday, 8 August because the fight for...