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Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ..., the weather will keep getting worse and farming will become more and more difficult due to climate change. Yesterday at the climate committee, we heard presentations from the authors of Ireland's climate change assessment, an official Government report. They told us average temperatures in this country are already about 1°C higher than in the early 20th century. 2022 was the...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...in wildlife populations over the past 50 years with extinction now threatening a quarter of all of Earth's species, 40% of amphibians, one third of marine mammals and 10% of insect species. In Ireland, 63% of our wild bird species have a red or amber status and 85% of supposedly EU-protected habitats have bad or inadequate status. Europe is a disaster and biodiversity in Ireland is at...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I will. I believe in rent controls and building public homes on public land. Do not fill the pockets of developers.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I have heard the Minister for Finance speak about the future Ireland fund and say that he hopes it will have accumulated up to €100 billion in assets by 2035. Obviously, we often talk about big numbers in this place and they can lose a sense of meaning. When you consider it, though, €100 billion is a phenomenal amount of money. It could make a real difference to people's lives...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...event. Across Europe, 81% of habitats that were supposed to be protected by the habitats directive 30 years ago are not in good condition now. Europe is a disaster for biodiversity and Ireland is at the very bottom of the pile. We are the 13th worst country in the world for biodiversity, a far cry from the greenwashed image the Department of agriculture - using public money - attempts...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...first homes. It has nothing to do with looking after communities or providing security for children. Instead, it is not really a crisis, but a permanent part of how capitalism works. It enriches landlords and landowners off the backs of renters and workers. It lines the already bulging pockets of builders, developers, banks and vulture funds. One third of Fianna Fáil TDs...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Minister, the leader of the Green Party, is saying he is in favour of this. An LNG terminal is an LNG terminal. Okay, it is a floating LNG terminal rather than an LNG terminal on land. The Minister may say this will not lead to any more reliance on fossil fuels and so on, but I do not understand why that would be that the case. The energy security review explicitly states that this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...whether LNG is fracked. Activist groups like Not Here Not Anywhere and Safety Before LNG are vehemently opposed to this and are determined to fight against it. Whether an LNG terminal is on land or sea, it is still an LNG terminal. If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, it is a duck, or in this case an LNG terminal. Why is the Minister going along...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...the tenements by building social housing and moving people into decent homes of their own. Instead, we are now going backwards. We need to go forward again by building council homes on public land.

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...is clear public support to significantly increase expenditure on the Defence Forces and calls for the triple lock to be reconsidered. About the only useful aspect of the report is the admission that providing landing space or other facilities to a belligerent, as Ireland has done in Shannon, contradicts most definitions of neutrality. The question then for the Government is whether it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I agree with Dr. Cotter that obviously agriculture linked to land use changes is the number one impact. She did not mention water abstraction. Where would she list that as a factor impacting water quality?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...the supply of gas from Azerbaijan to the EU, yet Aliyev was threatening as long ago as October 2020 to ethnically cleanse Armenians from the region proclaiming, "that if they do not leave our lands of their own free will, we will chase them away like dogs". Armenians understandably fear that this could escalate into a second genocide. More than a third of the population of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: ..., there was almost a very serious fire. We know there are defects there. That building was highlighted in "Prime Time". When someone threw a cigarette butt out of a balcony, it blew back in and landed on artificial grass, which went on fire. We need emergency action now. The 100,000 families simply cannot wait.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...Minister of State was delayed in going to Montreal because of a Dáil motion. There was a big deal made of that. He went over there and committed to high-level targets and so on protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030. That is great but he then comes back here and is in favour of a Bill that has the potential to lead to dedesignation and less protection for our bogs, which are vital...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...service, the Government has consistently failed to tackle the housing crisis effectively, leaving it scrambling to react to a situation that has now spun out of control; and with the fact that Ireland's housing crisis is currently the worst in Europe, with rent prices having increased more than in any other European country. Those facts are unambiguously true. The Government's claim in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ..., but instead from the media. So, for the first time, not on the Dáil record but to the media, the Minister of State admitted that in January 2007, when he participated in the decision to put land up for sale, he knew at that moment that his wife had expressed interest in buying that land. Does the Taoiseach agree his position as a Minister of State is now not tenable? I can read...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...voted to block it. The result was a deeply unsatisfactory statement by Deputy Collins last Thursday in which he failed to clearly state whether he knew that his wife had expressed interest in the land when he participated in the decision to put it up for sale. He referred to a number of offers received by the council. He mentioned three in particular but failed to note that two of those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: What is clear is that Deputy Niall Collins participated in the decision to put the land up for sale. Without that decision, his wife could not possibly have bought the land and increased her money massively in the way she did and his family would not have been able to enrich itself in the way it did. That is absolutely clear unless it is the case that he had no idea that his wife had...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...not disputed or denied any of the key facts that were outlined there. Deputy Niall Collins's wife approached Limerick County Council in December 2006, through a solicitor, expressing interest in buying a plot of land. The next month, Deputy Niall Collins participated in the decision at the Bruff Local Electoral Area Committee, to put this land up for sale. Unless Deputy Niall Collins is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: How was the land put up for sale?