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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Research Funding (1 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...paid labour over the past decades, and PhDs have been particularly badly hit. That is why a key demand of the Postgraduate Workers Alliance and the PhDs’ Collective Action Union is for worker status for PhDs. It would address the major issues with pay and change immigration status for many non-EU PhDs, giving them a greater right to travel. It would also allow them to engage in...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...them means these were very minimal asks by the committee. Even then, the Government was not able to accept them. People Before Profit demands much more. We are opposed to the EU’s unjust and racist immigration policies, which the Minister of State, the Government and the Minister of State's European Parliament colleagues have consistently supported. Together with the...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...would immediately legislate to protect workers in collective redundancy situations by putting them at the top of the queue. That could be done by amending the Companies Act 2014 to provide for preferential creditor status to employees in collective redundancies and to include all payments due to workers in the list of payments covered. That is what we proposed in our Private Members'...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...been reported that almost a quarter of those people are earning below the minimum wage, with nearly half of them working more than 40 hours a week. They are facing extra exploitation due to their immigration status. They also face issues like lack of proper healthcare for themselves and their children, while others are the victims of crime but feel unable to seek help from the...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...not find a leaflet from Fine Gael from that referendum campaign. It had a relatively low key campaign. The reason for that was given by Gay Mitchell in an interview with "The Last Word" where he openly admitted that supposedly anti-immigrant attitudes in the population had motivated Fine Gael's decision not to campaign against the referendum but to give it passive support, which it did...

Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...here they are not given a thousand welcomes. A few months ago, one could have seen, even at 10 o'clock at night, a significant number of people, primarily students, queueing outside the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB. At other times of the year the queues start at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. as people are forced to jump through hoops in the absence of an online application system. That is...