Results 1-20 of 54 for destroyed speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if on a visit to the West Bank, he asked to see a village that had been destroyed and ethnically cleansed by settlers; if so, if the IDF refused to allow it; if this is correct, the reason he did not make a public statement in relation to the matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7199/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The housing and homelessness crisis is spiralling even further out of control. It is destroying the lives of thousands of families and children across the State. In South Dublin County Council, 1,452 people were registered as homeless in November, including 653 children. All three homeless hubs in Tallaght are now permanently full. We do not just have a social housing list anymore, we...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...25,000 people massacred by Israel in the last 100 days or so, including over 10,000 children; and with ten children per day having their legs or arms amputated, most without anaesthetics. It is written in the destroyed buildings. We remember the arguments we had here about whether Israel had bombed a hospital. The majority of hospitals in Gaza have now been destroyed by Israel, as have...

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

Paul Murphy: ...capture and storage technologies that have not been invented yet to take the carbon back out of the atmosphere after the coal has put it there. The US, which is the biggest historic emitter of carbon and the country with most responsibility for destroying our climate, fought tooth and nail for the science fiction of abatement to be included. For that, it received the Colossal Fossil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...a severe policy incoherence where Ireland, relatively speaking in the global north, speaks in progressive language on these issues but then acts as a conduit for billions of dollars to go to destroy our planet, for which the poorest people in the world pay the price. One aspect of that is the strong call to update the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act so that at least no public money is ending...

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...We should withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty now and state publicly that Ireland will not compensate any of these major corporations, especially not a corrupt billionaire like Larry Goodman, for destroying the basis of life on this planet.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ..., divide and rule of people on disability payments. Those on disability payments are very scared of this. One woman who contacted me said that the assessment process was dehumanising and soul-destroying, particularly the idea of proving that a person and their children are "disabled enough" to get the support needed. I do not understand that as, if the Minister says that she wants to...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...mean a worse health service, to rein in a profligate Minister. If the rest of the Government does not have confidence in the Minister for Health, they should act to remove him, rather than undermine and destroy our health service. I think the deeper reason is that it suits the mainstream narrative of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to go along with the idea the health service is some...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Just Transition (27 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...A woman, who was in touch with me, is the parent of four children, all of whom have disabilities. She also has a disability. She said that the assessment process would be dehumanising and soul-destroying to try to prove that you and your children are "disabled enough" to get the support needed. If the Government is genuinely concerned about persons who are long-term sick, it should...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...combination of sewage and agricultural run-off, commercial sand dredging, climate change and invasive species is responsible. Ecosystems that have thrived for hundreds of thousands of years have been destroyed by the profiteering of modern capitalism. Pollution knows no borders and the same destruction is happening in the South. Some 45% of our water bodies are in an unsatisfactory...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...system. It points to challenging the imperialism that is fuelling conflict across the world, be it Russian or US imperialism, backing various dictators that are repressing their populations, destroying the planet and potentially creating hundreds of millions of climate refugees in the coming years. It is wrong to blockade people who have fled war and are vulnerable from accessing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (31 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 757. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds injured, destroyed and killed at races, trials and sales auctions in 2022; the names of the greyhounds; the nature of each injury, destruction and fatality; the results of any post mortem and the associated dates and track locations. [4006/23]

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: Incredible scenes have emerged from Germany over the past few weeks. The German Government has decided to destroy and demolish a village called Lützerath to make room for a coal mine. It has been met by brave resistance. Some 50,000 protestors turned up to resist, who in turn were subjected to incredible brutality by the German police. Indeed, yesterday, Greta Thunberg was arrested....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...corporate harm. Will Mr. Linehan outline whether he agrees with this view? I am talking about someone such as, hypothetically, an indigenous person living in the Amazon and having his or her home destroyed as a result of an extractive process, which is down the value chain from an Irish-based multinational corporation. What prospect does this person have of seeking justice in Ireland...

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...green-washing to suggest that scraping out every last piece of organic material left from felling, which is environmentally damaging in its own right, will somehow represent green energy. It is destroying material that otherwise would be populated by fauna, filling in some of the destruction left by deforestation. Using brash to create biomass indicates a desire to leave a completely...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ..., the Police Ombudsman found the police colluded in the massacre at the bookies in 1992 where five people were killed, including one 15-year-old. The Police Ombudsman found the police deliberately destroyed files on this attack protecting those responsible. In other cases, the RUC quite literally handed guns to loyalist terrorists, guns with which they went on to commit murder. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: 1949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds injured, killed and destroyed at tracks in 2021; the names of the greyhounds; the nature of each injury and death and destruction; and the associated dates and track locations. [62996/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...a situation where women are pressured to engage in sex work and people are unable to go to the local shop for fear of being offered or given drugs or pressured about drug debts. It is absolutely destroying communities. There are incredible people doing incredible work in the various projects but they are supporting people with their hands tied behind their backs. On the one hand, this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...use. I am sure the Taoiseach saw some of the harrowing coverage yesterday of what has been described as an epidemic of crack cocaine use in Tallaght. People’s lives and communities are being destroyed, yet the total figure allocated to address crack cocaine use in budget 2022 across the entire State was €500,000. Funding for the Tallaght Drug and Alcohol Task Force remains...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I am not sure whether the Taoiseach saw the footage from ITV in Britain last week relating to the practices of Amazon. In its fulfilment centres in that country, the company is destroying up to 200,000 products, and an average of 124,000 to 130,000, per week. Those products are in perfectly good condition, from toasters to televisions to face masks. They could be used but are instead being...