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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider implementing technology which would allow, without the person taking the test having to make a complaint, for a review of each driving test examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15344/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1315. To ask the Minister for Health the spring due to be removed from a patient (details supplied) at Temple Street Hospital will be retained for examination; and if so, what examination will be conducted. [14059/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (1 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...up to and including 3rd level) ...". It is now 34 months later and students are still paying for public transport. What I took from the Minister's answer, as well as recent reporting in the Irish Examineris that there is no intention to further reduce fares and certainly no intention to move towards non-commodified public transport for young people, or at least students. This would make...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...misogyny, which reeks of the squinting-windows Catholic Ireland of old, the Department continues it. Between 2018 and 2020 alone, 32,559 recipients of the one-parent family payment scheme were examined by social welfare inspectors, 2,327 were cut off, and another 3,665 had their payment rate reduced on review. To return to the subject matter of the Bill, it is unfortunately the case that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: 860. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of any issues with the probate process (details supplied); if she will request a review of the process which examines whether the probate process needs a complete overhaul; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48671/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...changing the work contract of senior staff and separately the changing of hours and remuneration of delivery staff; if he will meet with workers’ representatives on foot of these moves to examine their concerns on the limitations of current legislation that governs protection of workers’ contracts and earnings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25166/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...at Coolock are correct to occupy that premises to attempt to save their jobs. One of the interesting things is the company was in the High Court yesterday seeking the appointment of an interim examiner. Part of what was presented was that the company has €36 million worth of debts but €34 million of that is to the parent company. In other words, these are debts owed to the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (14 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is almost a year since the Government received the report of the working group to examine defects in housing. Laid out in the report is a shocking tale of builders cutting corners and using loopholes inserted by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in terms of self-certification with devastating consequences for apartment and duplex owners. The report suggests that a majority of apartments and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...and so on, and it is being used now in hundreds of cases across the country by Cignal-Cellnex to put up huge masts without any consultation or notice to people. It was reported in the Irish Examinerthat in the current draft of the new planning Bill that the right of people to even appeal to An Bord Pleanála would be taken away. I am interested in the Minister of State's response as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...institution to fashion or implement a response. We felt strong enough to react on our own, and so we did." Writing about the attempted and implemented coups in Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua, she says: "An examination of these cases reveals that the United States had very good reasons to object to the governments of Chile, Cuba, and Nicaragua. Their ideological orientation was inimical to...

European Union Directive: Motion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...during which legal proceedings may be taking place. The trauma and difficulty victims face do not end, obviously, when courts or legal processes finish. To look at the broader picture, we must examine the policy of fortress Europe, of pulling up the drawbridge and punishing those fleeing war, persecution and climate chaos, which has had the consequence that tens of thousands of people...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Disputes (21 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: 151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the legislation in relation to the non-payment of salaries by a company (details supplied); if the legislation will be updated to ensure further protections for employees in cases in which an employer has not provided wages due, given that the process in the WRC can be lengthy and staff who are owed wages should...

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

Paul Murphy: I am talking about the current situation and whether this proposal tends to represent a significant approval. To explore this point further, let us examine the issue of the civil liability regime in the draft EU proposal. To make this workable and have effective transposition of this into Irish law, are there changes we would need to make? For example, as I understand it currently, it is...

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

Paul Murphy: ...a legitimate expectation of getting a profit. That was the ideological basis of PPPs in this State, not just in roads but in schools and other important projects like social housing. The truth is that, when we examine it, the private actors in the motorways ran no risks. When the Roche family and their friends in Fianna Fáil did the deal on the M50 toll road in the 1980s, there was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: In June, the University of Limerick published the results of a groundbreaking new study that examined the relationship between Travellers and the Irish criminal justice system. The report details that Travellers' trust in the system is extremely low and that fears of wrongful arrest, excessive use of force, wrongful conviction, disproportionately high sentences and wrongful imprisonment...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...only with maximisation of profit and cares nothing for the devastation of the natural environment and the consequences of that for all of humanity. It is good that we have the Citizens' Assembly examining the question of biodiversity loss but the real question is whether the Government is going to take action. I have full confidence that the citizens will demand action, but is the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has examined the possibility of extending the €500 cost-of-living payment and stipend increase announced in Budget 2023 to PhDs funded outside of IRC and SFI and if a mechanism similar to the pandemic related payments to students had been considered for this cohort. [51743/22]

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...new public contracts. We should go after them. I will finish by making the point about the report on the defective apartments and duplexes. It is now more than two months since the Government received the report from the working group that examined defects in housing. That report is clear about the significant extent of defects, primarily fire defects, in apartments and duplexes. If...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...process to formulate the policy for Irish all the way through the education system? According to information received by Conradh na Gaeilge under a freedom of information request, the State Examinations Commission has expressed great concern about the decision to move paper one of the Irish leaving certificate to fifth year and the grave consequences that would have for students'...